Charitable nonprofit organizations in the United States have remained mission-based since they were first introduced in the late-1800s. As an archaic human carryover, modern-day philanthropy is heavily reliant on the goodwill of individual donors. Since the Twelfth Street YMCA in Washington, DC, held the very first professional fundraiser in 1905, fundraising has become engrained in American society and continues to evolve through the adoption of professional and public standards. Similar to the other sectors, the nonprofit sector is not impervious to managerial missteps and may find itself in the midst of a scandal. Nonprofit scandals are often the outcome of an organization's failure to institute mechanisms for internal oversight or the organization's lack of ethical business practices as they are presented through shared information with external stakeholders. Though an organization's misconduct does not guarantee a scandal will come to fruition, scandals that do, can adversely impact not only the nonprofit organization itself but also the nonprofit sector as a whole. This is particularly noteworthy for a sector that is dependent upon individual donations to support its work. A charitable nonprofit organization's dependence on its stakeholders, can be explained by considering the organization's innate lack of financial resources. With a foundational business model that relies on donor stakeholders to donate these resources, a charitable nonprofit organization is inherently vulnerable to external controls and demands. Though most organizations prefer not to cede any level of independence to their external stakeholders, a nonprofit's control is contingent upon the organization's level of dependence on its donor stakeholders. By nature, a charitable nonprofit organization relies on its donors for revenue, which epitomizes the resource dependence tenet regarding an organization being beholden to its external stakeholders. This is due in part to the constraints placed on the nonprofit's access to its basic resources. Nonprofit's that misbehave through misconduct or misappropriations are believed to be susceptible to donor sanctions, including the withholding of financial resources. This study aimed to examine whether a nonprofit's stakeholders' exposure to negative information regarding the organization's misuse of raised funds has a detrimental impact on the donor's future philanthropy and their uncertainty regarding donating to that organization. Donor status, both as a singular variable and as an interaction with the experimental stimuli, was also measured to assess its impact on uncertainty. Donation uncertainty was measured to examine how it affects the nonprofit-donor relationship and ultimately donation intention and word-of-mouth intention. Previous research has focused on relationships in regard to fundraising, however, little research has investigated the issue of uncertainty and its impact on donation intention. It has long been accepted that previous donor status and organizational behavior both impact donation intention. However, the findings in this study indicate that there may not be a significant relationship between previous donation status or organizational behavior and donation uncertainty. There is, however, a significant relationship between uncertainty and relationship management and relationship management and donation intention and word-of-mouth intention. Further studies are needed to investigate donation uncertainty in more detail given its significant impact on the nonprofit-donor relationship. This study included a total of 331 participants who were recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and randomly assigned to two treatment conditions or one control condition. The experiment required study participants to first read pieces of information followed by responding to a questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using R, AMOS, and SPSS.