What percentage of your pay do you donate to charity?

I am that someone else.

Percent isn’t really clear for me, I guess. I donate a lot to clothing and food drives and always donate a couple dollars for breast cancer or whatever they ask for at the grocery store.

about 30% to the “I need coffee” foundation

Like Uber, percent really isn’t clear for me, either.

Yearly, I give a good chunk to the Canadian Cancer society (around $500/year), and small donations to the Humane Society, Red Cross, give canned goods to the Inn of the Good Shepherd (soup kitchen) and donate clothing and other goods to the Salvation Army.

Easy question for me. I donate 20% of my sales to animal rescues. Before the recession hit I was able to donate 50%. Hopefully I will be able to get back to 50% again soon.

Annually, including donations of money and personal items (like to goodwill) and personal expenses (like when I rescue cats/kittens and use my own money to feed and place them in new homes), probably about 6–9%.

My guy used to give a full 10% of his take-home pay to the local homeless shelter. Then, times got hard and we had to do the “put on your own oxygen mask before helping the person next to you” thing. I talked him out of donating 10% of his unemployment check. Now we, together, earn what only he made before, but we still give a little when we can – when we have our own bills, food, and shelter taken care of. I don’t know the percent.

I choose to donate my time rather than my money (Habitat for Humanity, Red Cross, Animal Protection Society).

I volunteer time and services on a regular basis – cash on an as needs basis to people who I select myself – not often associated with any charity.

I don’t have a “pay,” but I’ve given what amounts to about 25% to a charity when I had extra I didn’t need. I give away tons of clothes each year. And I remember my mom giving me a dollar to put in the offering plate each week at church when I was little :)

I donate my old clothes, but I have no pay :(

@syz- Lurve.
Time is the greatest donation of all. It is priceless.
When you think about it cutting a check takes only a few seconds. But to go and put your heart and your work and time into helping is HUGE .

I notice a lot of people give clothes. Depending on where your charity sends them, this can sometimes go awry.

We volunteer our time and household items. Right now we are quite low-income and have a medical debt that is overwhelming. But on occasion we donate money as well. I always give a dollar at the register when they ask if I’d like to donate to a cause for example and there are other circumstances. We give what we can, sometimes more than that. And when I come to the place where we aren’t worrying about feeding ourselves I’ll be more than happy to donate more money. I hope to be able to donate to a charity on a regular basis at some point in my life.

@RedPowerLady “I always give a dollar at the register when they ask if I’d like to donate” reminded me how irritating it is when people won’t give $1–5 for charities in those situations. Especially when they are at a store buying frivolous things.

Money is just as necessary as time. Some people have one but not the other. I’m no less concerned nor is my sacrifice worth less than someone who donates their time. tyvm

@Dog I’m not trying to argue that time isn’t an amazing donation..
But remember that donating money is not just signing a check, it’s working those hours in order to earn that money for the check.

I donate my time and clothing and food and 1% of my annual salary

@Facade I understand that sometimes someone has already give a few times so they say ‘no’ or perhaps they are really poor and can’t afford it. But what really got me one time is when someone was asked if they wanted to donate their four cents of change and they said ‘no’. What the heck is up with that? I could probably come up with a feasible reason but I doubt this person had one

@All – Actually I was not negating donating funds with my response. I realize that funds are vital and this is why I donate. I was just pointing out my admiration of those who are there hands-on. Sorry if I offended anyone. It was unintentional.

If I had it, I’d love to give to organizations that I support (it’s always in my “if I won the lottery” dreams). But finances are tight, so I give “sweat equity”. And there’s always that nagging concern of how much of your donation goes to “administrative costs”.

3% to church, some of which goes to charities and mission work
1–2% to other-scholarships, medical research, etc.

About 15–20% of my total income. I prefer to give as directly as I can to the point of use, since as @syz pointed out, many of the “umbrella” organizations skim off a surprisingly high percentage of donations as “administrative costs”(executive salaries and perks comparable to major corporations). Battered womens shelter, public radio (in three different states), Planned Parenthood, various medical research organizations; several advocacy groups for issues relating to women, GLB, firearms owners, civil liberties, etc.

I also give direct, anonymous aid to neighbors that I know are in need; I have paid the electric bills of two neighbors directly to avoid it being cut off(with the electric co-op told that they are not to say who paid it), bags of groceries left on porches, etc. I’ve also donated lumber and other building supplies to Habitat for Humanity.

My autistic nature (Aspergers Syndrome) makes it impossible for me to donate my time in a conventional sense. I have donated my engineering skills several times to organizations when I could do so without direct social interaction.

I go with the flow.