So let me guess. You didn't donate and to make yourself feel better you make fun of the people who did. 93 percent goes to the cause if you look carefully enough. I don't like you. 

That a small percent goes to research. I still donated because a good chunk still goes to helping Als so this doesn't impact me

Yeah the money that goes towards both education and "patient and community" services in my opinion is far greater use of funds than research, sure if you research a condition like this you might improve the quality of life of sufferers in 5-10 years time, but if you make sure there is care and services available for those who have been afflicted by it right now, that is just amazing to those people.

LOL I find this topic amusing. I like how many people claim that Charity is an excellent way to problems and use it as an excuse when the Government tries to give free healthcare.

This "article" gives absolutely no sources, no links to the numbers it claims.

Seems legit.

Here's one with sources: http://www.alsa.org/news/archive/debunks-article.html

That's good to hear. I hope ALS is doing the right thing.

DEBUNKED BY SNOPES ALSO:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/als.asp

i can't find the link but there was another link that showed that the year before they only used 6% for research.

~4 million (14% of 2013 budget) spent on fund raising that has yielded fund raising for $100 million due to the success of ICE Bucket seems like a good investment

~2 million (7% of 2013 budget) spent on administration is really not that bad considering most Charity organizations are setup to get people to fund extravagant lifestyles for the "administrators".

The rest of the money is split between
* Research
* Service / Support
* Education

That doesn't sound like a scam to me. The people with ALS need some community service support. The Research is for long term goals of curing/fighting the degenerative disease. Public education about the disease is as important as the service / support.

The problem of course is that there will be more administrators within each of those buckets (Research, Community, and Education), but that is reality. You can't expect people administrating public benefit things without getting paid to do it, and you pay healthy amounts because you want qualified / effective people doing that.

Also, so don't take a $100 million fundraising in 2014, and think the way funds are distributed % wise will be same as 2013. Once overheads are settled, the rest goes to the cause. Same way once overheads are settled in private company, rest goes to profits, for non-profits, the rest goes to the cause.

Wow I thought people that work for charities have no salaries and feed their families and pay their bills using dreams and goodwill. :^)