New study: Charitable giving reaches annual record highs

Published June 20, 2015 9:00am ET



Americans’ donations to charity reached record highs in 2014 with $358 billion given, passing the previous record set in 2007, before the recession began.

Donations rose for the fifth year in a row, according to the Giving USA Foundation, which publishes an annual report on giving. Its report on the donations received by the United States’ 1 million charities is the “longest-running and most comprehensive” report on charitable giving in the country.

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