If anyone's interested,
here's a link to the 2016 Form 990 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. You can see their income, their expenses, compensation for management, and so on.
I recommend reviewing the Form 990 for any organization you intend to become involved with, or to support financially. It can be surprising to see what they're really doing, since the marketing can give the wrong impression sometimes. It's become kind of a hobby for me to review these. I don't usually say much about
them though, since people tend to get angry when you suggest their darling charity may not be as helpful as it declares itself to be.
This is a pretty big operation, with over $50 million income. Please draw your own conclusions from reviewing this if you'd like to.
Particularly Part IX, the Statement of Functional Expenses can be revealing. It shows how much of the funds go to grants, directly supporting research for example. Also management costs, office expenses, and on, and on. Direct grants to institutions are reasonably efficient. Sometimes the personnel and travel costs may seem high, but that can be related to a lot of "awareness" events, educational seminars, conferences, and so on. They may need to do a fair amount of travel to properly manage the grant programs, to follow up on how the money's being used. That can take quite a bit of personnel to support, too. These are just part of the inefficiencies inherent in such an operation.
The least efficiency happens when funds are granted to other non-profits, since they're typically woefully inefficient. You may end up with pennies on the dollar actually going to anything useful since so much gets eaten up in overhead. There seems to be little of that in PCF, so that's good, IMHO.
Anyway, I'm just suggesting this as a prudent course of action when dealing with any non-profit.