RE: NGO's - Indonesia & a storm.
OKAY lets stick with just the red cross for now, I only like to present info I can back up, hence using what most people trust in the msm.
For a start in the UK (I can not speak for other countries) The haiti disaster fund was begged for with the promise of rebuilding peoples homes in Haiti yes? How many were built from the 500 million $ raised? 6. That is not a failure it is a complete waste of raised funds Source
A quarter of the 500 million raised, $125 million was spent of that money on the red cross own internal expenses Source Which contradicts your figures that it was "other" organizations expenses or anything to do with storing food.
Other findings in Sen. Grassley's report:
The charity insisted to congressional investigators that $70 million spent on "program expenses" included funds to oversee and evaluate its Haiti programs. But Grassley's office found that the charity "is unable to provide any financial evidence that oversight activities in fact occurred."
Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern told Grassley's office the charity "gave [the Government Accountability Office] everything that they asked for" during an earlier review. The report, however, says the organization did not provide everything requested, "contrary to Ms. McGovern's multiple claims that it did."
The Red Cross has kept the charity's own internal investigations and ethics unit "severely undermanned and underfunded," the report says, and the charity "appears to be reluctant to support the very unit that is designed to police wrongdoing within the organization."
I could do a whole article or 10 just on the red cross alone if you like?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/red-cross-ceo-addresses-criticism-of-how-funds-are-used/
Internal expenses means just that, internal, that's means replenishing depleted stocks of items, cost of faring people back and forth, security provided to volunteers (I know they provide security because I have a friend who has gone on a couple of missions for them, it's because they send these volunteers into unstable environments.
Lacking the expertise to mount its own projects, the Red Cross ended up giving much of the money to other groups to do the work. Those groups took out a piece of every dollar to cover overhead and management. Even on the projects done by others, the Red Cross had its own significant expenses – in one case, adding up to a third of the project’s budget.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/red-cross-haiti-report_n_7511080.html
There are other articles out there I have seen over time that get a bit more detailed, some even giving names of those convicted of taking some of the funds and using them for personal use. I am not saying the red cross does everything in a exculpatory manner, I think things would be a lot worse if they weren't there, in instances where money is raised above and beyond their core mission I think more regulatory oversight should be in place, such as requiring them to have organizations that are verified and in place for quick action when these types of funds exceed what is required of them.
There's no way I could argue that some view disasters as money making events in some people's eyes, we just have to look at the Clintons Foundation and what transpired with those funds that Bill Clinton was supposed to disperse in Haiti. In all reality it's pretty harsh when it comes down to places using the money for other then what it's intended for. Would I say I have any great expectation outside of a feel good moment of donating money when the reality may actually fall to a bunch of despots whose real thoughts behind getting the money is to keep it for themselves while in the back of their minds they justify it as these people were already living in squalor conditions why should they expect any better afterwards. Sad really, but when it comes to money people are really selfish.