Income from work is $40k. I give to friends and family, but not much to strangers or charities.
Trying to not become a charity case myself.

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Anonymous wrote:Most charities have too many employees with obscene salaries and don’t make good use of their donations.

You choose to give to the ones that spend wisely.

Don’t have time or energy to research. It’s not a requirement. We aren’t running some family foundation. It’s our money that we worked hard for.

Of the people who are giving, how much of that is going to a church or other religious organization?

Anonymous wrote:Most charities have too many employees with obscene salaries and don’t make good use of their donations.

You choose to give to the ones that spend wisely.

Most charities have too many employees with obscene salaries and don’t make good use of their donations.

Anonymous wrote:Last year we were 500k/600k/8k. (Before people jump at us, we’re in our 20s and paying off law school debt..)

Why don’t you take some savings to pay off your student loans? Or is it all in a house

We have done 5% of our gross income since we married close to 30 years ago, regardless of our NW.
When we started out our income was around a $100k and net worth was below $300k and we donated $5. We both worked back then.
Our income is now over $200k and net worth is around $5m(almost all 401k/IRA and house) and we donate $10k. I am retired and DH is still working.

Anonymous wrote:How very Scrooge like.

I make 75K, worth maybe 750K and will give more than twice what you do.

More coal for Ebenezer, please.

I'm not OP, but I'd rather be a Scrooge than an insufferable AH like you.

$350K, low NW given high/new mortgage and student loans, <$500 to charity (excluding donations of clothing and such)

Anonymous wrote:The truth surfaces.

This site should be called:

"DC'sGreedyUrbanMomsand Dads"

No need to insult people. You're going to cut back on honest answers if you do that.

$350k/$1.5mm/I think I gave $1000 to the children’s museum in June 2020.

$150K, $1.2M excluding 529s and home equity, give 10%, mid 40s.

Years ago we set up a donor advised fund and contributed a lot of company stock. Every year we donate out of it between 5-7% of the principal or $100k or so a year. The principal has grown a bit so it’s a gift that keep on giving. I now have to take out a required distribution from retirement accounts and a lot of that goes to charity. In my salaried days we always contributed about 5% of our income. Our gifting is very focused on small charities where we know we are making a difference.

The truth surfaces.

This site should be called:

"DC'sGreedyUrbanMomsand Dads"

Anonymous wrote:I make about $180K, single. Net worth about $850K. And I give $0 to charity. Taxes are my forced charity.

This is us too except our income and NW are much higher. I don’t count household/clothing donations when we are decluttering or donations to our kids public schools.