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[quote=Anonymous]Don't freak out too much.

I gave $1,500 to a specific political candidate once (first $1K about a month before the election, then $500 in the week before the election that I figured would get used on ads because the race was neck and neck).  I felt very strongly about that specific candidate and that race.  I also did door to door work for the candidate on election day.

My family's less affluent than OP's and we are very thrifty.  The above is the only political contribution I've ever made except $20 to a city commissioner candidate.  Also the only time I've campaigned. After that, I did get occasional calls from the entire party and its candidates asking me to chip in with $1K as the starting suggestion.  Those calls always took my breath away as I've never made a snap decision about that amount of $.

The school is probably asking every family at your school who is not in need of financial aid.

I had a cousin who was well-educated, married, had a pension, and didn't have kids.  When he passed, his will donated a fair bit of money to the SLAC that he and his wife attended and that his parents met at.  He got his name put on a renovated facility within the student union. I don't know how much he gave but it was probably a decent chunk of his lifetime wealth.

Have another elderly childless distant relative who got a huge payout from a wrongful death/malpractice lawsuit re: her husband and put it all into scholarships for local kids.

There was a story around me where a union forklift driver donated about $1M (his entire life savings) for scholarships.

People can have surprising resources, especially because the stock market is doing well.

Sounds like they are just shaking the trees.  A bit gracelessly.  A background data mistake is also probable.  Like maybe your house value is wrong.  I also think statistically the high number of kids you have is a marker of extra affluence at the upper end of the American income/wealth distribution.[/quote]

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