An estimated $449.64 billion was donated to charities in the United States in 2019, “placing it among the highest years ever for charitable giving,” according to Giving USA 2020: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2019.
Total charitable giving rose 4.2% over the revised total of $431.43 billion contributed in 2018. “Measured in current dollars, giving in 2019 reached the highest dollar total to date,” said the report, released in June. “Adjusted for inflation, total giving reached the second highest level on record, just slightly below the all-time high dollar amount achieved in 2017.”
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