For the first time in nearly two decades, only half of U.S. households donated to a charity, a study found. Donations to charitable causes are reaching record highs, but it’s being driven by an increasingly smaller slice of the population.
The study, published every other year by Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, comes from a survey that has been tracking the giving patterns of more than 9,000 households since 2000, when 66% of U.S. households donated to a charitable organization. That number dropped to 49.6% in 2018, the latest year with comprehensive figures from those households.
“What are the factors that will bring them into giving? Especially if they are not attending services, and not participating in networks that will lead to giving,” she said. The study says declining levels of trust among Americans for institutions and each other may also contribute to the move away from charitable giving. That mistrust is especially pronouncedThe data shows a majority of households headed by a person who had a college or a graduate degree, and was married or widowed gave to charity. Wealth was also a factor.
Critics have long argued that large charitable donations by wealthy philanthropists are only possible in an era of rising income inequality, a point philanthropist MacKenzie Scott cited during her latest announcement of donations.
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