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How people give: donor trends, donor-advised funds, giving days and the data behind charitable giving.
8,088 donors gave $3,351,259 in October, beating a 7,220-donor goal but trailing $4.03 million in 2025. A $10 million estate gift was announced on November 3.
The standard deduction rises to $33,200 for couples and a charity's low-cost thank-you limit to $14.33. The $1,000 deduction for non-itemizers is not indexed.
Donors who gave $100 or less fell 4.2%, and only 11.3% of 2025's new donors had given again by June, the AFP and GivingTuesday project reports.
The community foundation's own grantmaking grew much faster than grants from donors' funds, by our calculation. It also closed a $1.3 billion campaign.
In a Gallup and Walton Family Foundation survey, 71% of people who expect to be heard felt motivated to give back, against 33% of others. Only 34% expect it.
GivingExplainer
A donor-advised fund lets a donor take a deduction now and recommend grants later. Here is how the accounts work, what the law forbids and how big they are.
GivingExplainer
IRA owners aged 70½ or older can send up to $111,000 in 2026 straight to charity and leave it out of taxable income. Here is who qualifies and how it works.
Donations rose 5.9% from $3.8 billion in 2023, while the number of organizations serving the military and veterans community fell to 39,535.
Headlines as each source published them, with links to the original releases.