I read more as: "Don't donate to groups....unless, they know what they're really doing..." ...which as a former employee of a non-profit, could not agree more.
Seemed more specifically to be telling you to specifically be damn sure you have a grasp of what the second, third, fourth order effects of the charity you are doing because the path to hell is paved with good intentions. (I would call this a specific subset of making sure the group really knows what it is doing because the group can really know what it is doing but have that task they excel at be really bad for some secondary reason)