After deciding I had better look into charitable organizations that solicite my financial support, I have discovered that there are a vast amount of unscrupulous organizations. To aid in my research, I have stumbled upon a great website entitled "Charity Navigator". It gave me a path to pull up the IRS 990 forms that charitable organizations are required to file. WOW!! What an eye opener!! The majority of the charities to which I had been sendiing money had 10% or less of their contributions going to those they purport to represent. I unfortunately gave money to "the Metro Firefighters Association" without checking them out. I cannot find them or their 990 forms online. I have used their Fed Tax ID# of 73-0957897 online but get nothing. Soooooo I will no longer be sending money to them. Hope this helps someone who is looking for information on them.