Save the Children USA
Improving children's lives through education, health, and emergency response worldwide
Our editorial assessment
Save the Children is one of the world's oldest and largest child-focused NGOs, with a reach that few organisations can match. Their programming spans emergency response, early childhood education, nutrition, and child protection across 100+ countries. The organisation's scale is both a strength and a complexity: their programme spending ratio of 80% is lower than some peers, reflecting the administrative costs of operating in fragile and conflict-affected settings. However, their emergency response capability — the ability to deploy immediately in crises from earthquakes to refugee emergencies — provides a critical service that smaller, more efficient organisations cannot replicate.
The problem they're solving
Children are disproportionately affected by every humanitarian crisis. Save the Children's century-long track record and global presence ensure that child-focused programming is delivered in the world's most challenging environments, from active conflict zones to remote rural communities.
About Save the Children USA
Save the Children works in 100+ countries, reaching 200M+ children with education, healthcare, and emergency response.
Where your dollar goes
What your donation could do
Your $100 supports education, health care, and emergency relief for children worldwide.
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How this score was produced
The Charity Ranking score is our own editorial assessment, produced with a weighted rubric covering program spending, transparency and governance, evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and leadership. It draws on publicly available reports from independent evaluators such as GiveWell, Charity Navigator, and CharityWatch, but it is not a rating issued or endorsed by any of those organisations. The community rating shown above is a separate signal contributed by signed-in donors; it is displayed alongside our criteria but never feeds into the editorial score. Read the full methodology →