Charitable Donations Up in 2014, Including Health Sector
Charitable donations of $358.38 billion in 2014 represent an increase of 7.1 percent in current dollars and 5.4 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars more than the $339.94 billion that Americans donated in 2013, according to the Giving Institute’s Giving USA 2015 annual report.
Donations to the health sector were up 3.8 percentage points in inflation-adjusted dollars.