Recently, several people have asked whether the Maryland Charity Campaign sets a quota on contributions to larger charities or redirects contributions to smaller charities. The Office of the Secretary of State oversees the MCC and sets strict regulations. There are no pre-set quotas for contributions to larger charities. All contributions designated to a particular charity go to that charity.

The only contributions put in a MCC general fund are those where a contributor fails to name a charity. For instance, some employees do not identify a charity code on their pledge forms. When this happens, the total amount of undesignated contributions is distributed to all charities in the booklet based on the percentage of designated contributions each charity receives during the campaign. Another way of putting this is, if the Maryland Charity Campaign raised 3 million dollars from designated funds and the American Red Cross received 10% of that designated 3 million, then the American Red Cross would receive 10% of the undesignated dollars.

All collected donations less administrative costs (11.8% in 2005) are fully paid to charities. As explained above, the charities also receive a portion of the undesignated fund.

After the campaign ends in December, the MCC sends a notification letter by the end of March to each agency informing them how much they can expect to receive that year. The agency also receives a donor listing of everyone who requested to have their names sent to the charities they supported. MCC payments are sent monthly to the charities.