This is a follow up to [this](blog.nyman.re/2025/08/2… and this.
So we’re continuing the quest to figure if it’s realistic for a normal person in the tech industry to do a life-saving donation.
Let’s look closer at the charities listed last time by reading their yearly reports.
Overall a very good report. Very transparent. From this we can read that they have received, around 34 million in funding. They have a lot of different projects ongoing in different countries.
This is not the same as the meteor one, it’s a flashy html page. It does not have any numbers, but those are available in the annual financial report.
Their yearly donations are GBP 5,6M in 2023 and 10,6M in 2024. They used 7M for charitable activities and 400K for fundraising.
Annual donations in the range GBP 4,4 M 2023 to 3,4M in 2024. Notable there is that the document says 6% of the money went to support costs, and 16% to cost of generating funds. Without diving deeper into this, it looks higher than the others but it might just be that they are more transparent.
I think based on this, I’m leaning towards KidsOR. And as next step I’ll probably try to figure out if my donation would be big enough that it could be “easily” earmarked so I can know what difference it made.
Medeor says that anything above 1000 euro is considered a large donation, big enough for the donor to contact them beforehand to discuss.
I could not find any info about that on KidsOR.