I’m always a bit conflicted on this point. On one hand, a huge amount of church finances go towards sustaining the church (and in many denominations, paying for grand, ostentatious buildings and clothes and even jets for its owner).
On the other hand, every single homeless shelter in a pretty massive radius of me is funded by a church. Like… literally all of them. Without them we would have none in a huge area.
That’s not really an endorsement of churches, its just kind of a critique of the idea that secular groups are a lot more charitable - which I also don’t think is true