Yeah mostly we can assure that the money we give for religious group will go to the right person,
Mostly because we can't trust them all, some people uses the religion to scam people, and in our country religious activities that generate funds are non taxable, so this is being use by people with bad intention.
But there is a trend right now in my country where streamers conduct a charity streams so that they can donate to a less fortunate and all things are well documented together with a video with the donations given to the people so I think this is one of the innovative way for people to donate since this is quite convenience to the people who doesn't want to go out and want to help.
I've known one streamer which has million of followers gained in a very short period of time which I believe is not really helping the people.
Just found recently that youtube superchat can be use to ask for donation and mostly OFW are the victims as they don't really see what is happening in the country, sometimes video can be deceiving, you see they are distributing the donation but it could be just a stage one.