No, for the reasons you have mentioned

The only time I ever give them? When they are outside freezing their ass off for this nonsense. Throwing a buck in their kettle always seems to make a random person feel better. Otherwise? Fuck The Salvation Army!!!!

Good to know. They won't be getting any more loose change from me.

Remember the Clintons (Bill and Hil)? Donations for campaigns or for other goals ended up in the Clinton Foundation. They probably bought more land in Arkansas

Decades ago, didn’t some bell ringers play in a Broadway show about baseball? I really liked the show.

My mother was Salvation Army for donkey's years, she only quit when she joined a lunatic Charismatic sect in her sixties, because the Sally Army had, in her words "Gone soft"
The very idea of a Paramilitary Christian organisation had always to me seemed highly suspect to begin with, but during the time that my wife was working as a senior carer in a home for homeless geriatric men I heard so many horror stories about the Sallies, that it made my hair stand on end. Such as allowing Homeless people to take a shower, but then charging them 50p for use of a towel after they got soaking wet, or telling them to make do with tissue paper, telling other homeless they were to well dressed to have charity clothes or eat in their soup kitchens, and refuing to help those who would not sing Christian hymns. To the point where many of them would rather freeze than go to the Sally Army for help.
Then the final straw came for me when I was working for the Charity Shelter and literally had three 3 Salvation Army Heavies approach my self and three colleagues while we were collecting for the homeless on the street at Christmas and threaten us to go collect elsewhere as we were on their patch and stealing their donations.
We had a council permit to collect and they did not, but when I called the police for assistance was told we would have to move as they were not prepared to "Get in the papers for hassling the Salvation Army"

If you read the whole article, the author is a rightist of the Ayn Rand persuasion. Well, broken clocks and all that.

General Brain Peddle the CEO or General of the Salvation Army international is paid £145,994 - £159,619 per Annum depending if you include benefits and bonuses or not.
Make of that what you will

Notice I said "mostly". If you're pissed off, you must recognize yourself.