Meet Tracy Kaufman, the “world’s foremost expert on philanthropy” and author of the new blog Philanthropiccrap.

“I may be a piddling assistant,” she writes, “but by god I’ve read enough Chronicle of Philanthropy to coronate myself the utmost thinker of our time when it comes to the nonprofit sector.”

Ms. Kaufman’s humorous blog offers an irreverent, if controversial, look at the nonprofit world.

In a recent blog item, for example, the 25-year-old New York library-sciences student identifies three charitable causes she calls a total waste of money — churches, universities, and microfinance institutions.

In terms of giving to a religious group, she writes, “you may as well take your money, fry it in a little oil on the stove, plop some caramelized onions on top, and eat it, because whatever the church is doing with your money is probably pretty similar.”

What do you think of Ms. Kaufman’s blog? Can a Chronicle subscription make you the world’s foremost expert in anything else?