Here are the organizations I\u2019m donating to in 2025.<\/p>\r\n
Most of this list is repeated from 2021<\/a> (and earlier years), but since that last post I\u2019ve removed a few organizations and added a few others.<\/p>\r\n The list is categorized for ease of scanning, though the categories are somewhat arbitrary in some places. Some items are listed under multiple categories.<\/p>\r\n Donations to almost all of these organizations (except as marked) are tax-deductible in the US.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Before the list, here are some thoughts about my charitable giving this year.<\/p>\r\n I\u2019ve been trying to cut back on my spending in general lately, for the sake of my longterm finances. But there\u2019s more (and more urgent) need for aid than ever, and I decided that it would be better to spend more now and (potentially) less later rather than the other way around.<\/p>\r\n In 2025, my main foci have been supporting immigrants in the US, supporting trans people in the US, and supporting people in Gaza (though those foci aren\u2019t clear from the list below). Some of that support takes the form of donating small amounts to individuals\u2019 crowdfunding campaigns (which I haven\u2019t listed on this page); other support takes the form of donating to organizations.<\/p>\r\n (My giving has been kind of disorganized this year. I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019ve donated to several organizations that aren\u2019t on this list; I may add some organizations to the list later as I look through records.)<\/p>\r\n With limited financial resources and an overwhelming number of people in need of aid, it can be hard to know who to give money to, and how to allot that money. In general, I feel like giving to organizations is more likely to be more effective for more people (for a given amount of money) than giving to individuals\u2014but there are enormous numbers of individuals who aren\u2019t fully supported by organizations, and those people need help too.<\/p>\r\n So I give here and there, knowing that there\u2019s never enough to help everyone, but hoping that together we can provide enough support to help some people.<\/p>\r\n (Side note: This post doesn\u2019t include organizations specifically focused on supporting candidates for political offices. For more about such organizations, see a separate post<\/a> from 2024.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n If you donate online to nonprofits, I strongly recommend finding the little box many of them provide that lets you choose whether you want them to share your name and contact info with other organizations, and checking or unchecking it as appropriate. It\u2019s quite common for nonprofits to trade or sell their mailing lists, which can result in a flood of donation requests from other organizations. Many of which are also worthy, but there\u2019s only so many places one person can donate to\u2014and I hate unsolicited mail anyway.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-improving-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21735"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21862,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735\/revisions\/21862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Thoughts and philosophy<\/h3>\r\n
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