The trouble with charities is that they eat the chicken.
In other words most of the money will be used to hire people to distribute the money. So th majority of the funds will go for salaries.
If you have some chickens build a chicken house (jobs) and gather the eggs which results in long term benefits.
Two examples of the above. Years ago I managed a store. The guberment came in to place poor kids on the payroll for 4 hrs a week. The kids were paid 2.45 and hour or about $10 a week. The oversight lady had a Federal wage of $53,000 plus. She “managed” 5 kids. So distributing $50 a week to poor kids cost us over $1000 a week in her wages.
I no longer give to Red Cross as it was stated 83% of donations go towards salaries o Red Cross personal.