Reading the Tea Leaves in Giving USA’s 2024 Report on Philanthropy
-Americans gave a record $557 billion in charitable gifts during 2023, according to estimates provided by the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University in Giving USA 2024, The Annual Report on Philanthropy for 2023, published by the Giving USA Foundation. Giving, on an inflation-adjusted basis, continues to recover after retreating from the all-time peak in 2021. In current dollars, giving from all sources was up 1.9% over the previous year but down 2.1% when adjusted for inflation.
Giving by individuals was estimated to be $374 billion, growing at an annualized rate of 4.3% over the last five years. An additional $43 billion came from individuals in the form of charitable bequest giving, an increase of 4.8% over the previous year. Corporate giving was up 3% to $37 billion. Giving by foundations was estimated at $104 billion, an annualized rate of 8.3% over the last five years. (Note, the Giving USA Report counts new contributions to donor advised funds as individual giving in the year of the contribution. Subsequent distributions from donor advised funds are not reported as foundation giving.)