Donations to September 11 Recovery Effort: Who Gave and How Future Giving Will Be Affected

November 1, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute

What People Donated
	Ethnicity					Age			Household income
	Total	Caucasian	African- American	Hispanic	Other	Under 35	35 to 54	55 or older	Less than $15,000	$15,000 to $29,999	$30,000 to $39,999	$40,000 to $59,999	More than $60,000
Money	58%	62%	47%	50%	57%	53%	64%	55%	42%	54%	55%	63%	71%
Blood	13%	12%	14%	15%	14%	17%	12%	9%	6%	11%	12%	17%	16%
Time	11%	9%	21%	12%	12%	11%	14%	6%	10%	10%	6%	13%	14%
Other	6%	6%	5%	4%	3%	4%	8%	5%	2%	5%	6%	7%	7%
Nothing	30%	30%	27%	37%	30%	31%	26%	37%	47%	36%	32%	24%	20%
How Those Who Donated Plan to Give for the Rest of the Year
	Ethnicity					Age			Household income
	Total	Caucasian	African- American	Hispanic	Other	Under 35	35 to 54	55 or older	Less than $15,000	$15,000 to $29,999	$30,000 to $39,999	$40,000 to $59,999	More than $60,000
Don’t have much more to give to other charities this year	14%	13%	18%	13%	27%	13%	12%	20%	29%	23%	12%	11%	4%
Will give some more, but not as much as usual	12%	10%	18%	23%	16%	18%	9%	12%	16%	14%	15%	9%	7%
Will continue to give as much as usual to other charities	59%	64%	49%	45%	40%	47%	66%	57%	42%	43%	60%	67%	73 %
Will give more to other charities this year than usual	14%	13%	15%	19%	16%	23%	12%	11%	13%	19%	13%	13%	15%
Don’t know/refused to answer	n/a	1%	n/a	n/a	2%	n/a	1%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1%	n/a	1%
How Economic Slowdown Will Affect Giving
	Ethnicity					Age			Household income
	Total	Caucasian	African- American	Hispanic	Other	Under 35	35 to 54	55 or older	Less than $15,000	$15,000 to $29,999	$30,000 to $39,999	$40,000 to $59,999	More than $60,000
Completely stop charitable giving	9%	8%	11%	16%	13%	11%	8%	10%	21%	10%	7%	10%	4%
Greatly reduce charitable giving	11%	10%	5%	18%	18%	10%	11%	11%	12%	12%	14%	9%	9 %
Somewhat reduce charitable giving	28%	31%	18%	19%	23%	27%	28%	28%	19%	31%	27%	31%	29 %
Have virtually no impact on charitable giving	50%	50%	60%	47%	44%	50%	52%	47%	42%	48%	50%	50%	56 %
Don’t know/refused to answer	2%	1%	7%	n/a	2%	1%	1%	3%	6%	n/a	2%	n/a	2%
SOURCE: Independent Sector