Private Donations: How Much Has Been Raised and How It Will Be Spent

AMERICAN RED CROSS CHAPTER HEADQUARTERS

(Washington)
Amount raised: $807,800,000
Where the money is going: To provide shelter, food, financial assistance, and mental-health services to hurricane victims as well as helping reunite families. Funds will also be used to train volunteers to provide disaster relief.

SALVATION ARMY USA (national headquarters)
Alexandria, Va.
Amount raised: $145,000,000
Where the money is going: To provide food, water, shelter, cleaning equipment, and financial aid to hurricane victims.

BUSH-CLINTON KATRINA FUND
New York
Amount raised: $100,000,000
Where the money is going: To support projects that will help hurricane victims who are unable to obtain government aid. The governors of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi will identify the projects that get support.

CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA
Alexandria, Va.
Amount raised: $25,000,000
Where the money is going: To help Catholic Charities affiliates pay for food, clothing, shelter, temporary housing, and other short-term needs of hurricane survivors. Money will also provide Katrina victims with financial assistance, mental-health counseling, job training and placement, and help with other long-term needs.

UNITED WAY OF AMERICA
Alexandria, Va.
Amount raised: $20,300,000
Where the money is going: To pay for short and long-term needs of people who were harmed by the hurricane.

SAMARITAN’S PURSE
Boone, N.C.
Amount raised: $18,400,000
Where the money is going: To repair homes in Alabama and Mississippi and to provide food and clothing to people in Biloxi, Miss., who lost their homes to the hurricane. The charity is also purchasing mobile homes for 100 families in Louisiana.

HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES
Washington
Amount raised: $16,000,000
Where the money is going: To pay for staff members and volunteers to go to hurricane-damaged regions, to charter planes to move animals to shelters, to help pay for veterinary care, and to create a call center for pet-rescue requests. Donations will also pay for operation of two temporary shelters, search-and-rescue missions, and grants to local groups that work with animals.

AMERICA’S SECOND HARVEST
Chicago
Amount raised: $15,300,000
Where the money is going: To transport and distribute food and other supplies to relief organizations and hurricane-damaged regions.

UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITIES (national office)
New York
Amount raised: $12,700,000
Where the money is going: To provide water, food, and temporary shelter to hurricane survivors. The charity will also distribute money to help people obtain services not covered by their insurance, such as mental-health counseling, medicine, and health care. In addition, the money will be used to help families who have moved to new hometowns and to provide grants and loans to hurricane survivors.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL
Americus, Ga.
Amount raised: $11,000,000
Where the money is going: To build new homes for poor people in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi who lost their houses in the hurricane.

AMERICARES FOUNDATION
New Canaan, Conn.
Amount raised: $8,500,000
Where the money is going: To transport and purchase medicine, medical equipment and supplies, as well as diapers, shampoo, baby food, bottled water, and other items for hurricane survivors.

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA FOUNDATION
Chicago
Amount raised: $6,800,000
Where the money is going: To buy building supplies and rebuild homes, and to provide financial assistance to hurricane survivors to help them obtain services they cannot get through government organizations and other sources.

BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION
Baton Rouge, La.
Amount raised: $6,300,000
To help New Orleans residents now living in Baton Rouge with housing, food, education, and health care and to help rebuild social-services organizations in New Orleans.

MERCY CORPS
Portland, Ore.
Amount raised: $5,500,000
Where the money is going: To distribute food, water, and other basic supplies to hurricane victims and provide new school supplies and toys to children who survived the storm. Money will also train teachers, daycare workers, and others about the best ways to help youngsters who have endured stress and trauma because of Katrina.

FOUNDATION FOR THE MID SOUTH
Jackson, Miss.
Amount raised: $5,200,000
Where the money is going: To help nonprofit organizations that are rebuilding hurricane-damaged regions in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The foundation is putting $3,200,000, including a $1,000,000 grant from the Entergy power company, into efforts to help employees and customers of the business repair their homes and get food and clothing.

WORLD VISION
Federal Way, Wash.
Amount raised: $3,800,000
Where the money is going: To provide emergency aid and school supplies for hurricane survivors.

UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEF
New York

Amount raised: $3,600,000 Where the money is going: To pay for long-term relief and recovery efforts, including construction materials and help for the survivors. In addition, the money will help pay to coordinate volunteers providing relief services.

UNITED WAY OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST
Houston
Amount raised: $3,600,000
Where the money is going: To social-service charities in Houston that are assisting hurricane survivors who are now living in the city.

MENNONITE DISASTER SERVICE
Akron, Pa.
Amount raised: $3,000,000
Where the money is going: To clean up debris and rebuild homes in hurricane-damaged areas.

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION DISASTER RELIEF
Alpharetta, Ga.
Amount raised: $3,000,000
Where the money is going: To provide food and water to hurricane victims and help them remove debris from the hurricane.

CHRISTIAN REFORMED WORLD RELIEF COMMITTEE
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Amount raised: $2,000,000
Where the money is going: To reconstruct homes and businesses, help survivors find housing and pay household bills, and to help victims of the hurricane obtain aid from government and other private sources.

DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Amount raised: $1,900,000
Where the money is going: To give emergency cash grants to health clinics in Alabama and Louisiana that are serving hurricane victims and to provide medical supplies to health facilities in hurricane-damaged regions.

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE
Elkhart, Ind.
Amount raised: $1,400,000
Where the money is going: To provide short-term needs such as blankets and school supplies, as well as long-term assistance to the poor, disabled, and uninsured people who lived in the hurricane-damaged region. The group is also helping survivors move to new towns and training counselors on how best to help trauma victims.

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
New York
Amount raised: $1,038,810
Where the money is going: To send school supplies and recreation items to children displaced by the hurricane.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
Baltimore
Amount raised: $1,000,000
Where the money is going: To provide assistance to victims of the hurricane, advocate for equitable distribution of recovery aid, and help develop a reconstruction plan for the regions destroyed by the storm.

OXFAM AMERICA
Boston
Amount raised: $750,000
Where the money is going: To distribute food, pay for medicine and home repairs, and to help some of the poorest victims of the storm with long-term recovery needs.

ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOR REFORM NOW
New Orleans
Amount raised: $610,000
Where the money is going: To defray costs of relocating to Baton Rouge and Houston and to help rebuild New Orleans offices. The charity is also helping 9,000 families who lived in New Orleans get housing and other services, and will seek to ensure that low-income people get a voice in the city’s rebuilding plans.

OPERATION USA
Los Angeles
Amount raised: $600,000
Where the money is going: To provide donations of medical supplies, water-purification systems, portable-lighting systems, and electric generators to small nonprofit health clinics in the region devastated by the hurricane. The group also plans to make small cash grants to the clinics.

LINCOLN PARK ZOO
Chicago
Amount raised: $520,000
Where the money is going: To provide short-term relief to the employees of the Audubon Institute, which runs the zoo and aquarium in New Orleans, and to provide supplies to care for fish and animals for at least the next six months.

OPERATION BLESSING INTERNATIONAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Virginia Beach, Va.
Amount raised: $500,000
Where the money is going: To give food, water, and relief supplies to hurricane survivors and to give financial assistance to churches and other groups that are providing survivors with groceries, cleaning supplies, roof repairs, help removing debris from the hurricane, and other assistance.

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
Philadelphia
Amount raised: $500,000
Where the money is going: To provide food to refugees in Houston and financial assistance to charities working to help blacks in Mississippi who were harmed by the hurricane.

GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Houston
Amount raised: $436,000
Where the money is going: To help people who suffered economic losses in the hurricane and who have relocated to Houston, to aid New Orleans hospitality workers, and to provide for the long-term care, health, and education of children affected by the hurricane.

UNION COMMUNITY FUND
Washington
Amount raised: $314,000
Where the money is going: To help supply six centers in Alabama, Georgia, and Texas with access to computers and phone lines for use by displaced members of labor unions. Money is also being used to provide for basic needs of workers affected by the hurricane and to help workers navigate unemployment and health services benefits.

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FOUNDATION
New York
Amount raised: $210,000
Where the money is going: To help grass-roots nonprofit organizations and churches with relief efforts and to push for ways to ensure that a diversity of opinions are considered as rebuilding plans are devised.

NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Washington
Amount raised: $200,000
Where the money is going: To support the work of preservationists, architects, and engineers who are surveying damage done by the hurricane, to prevent demolition of historic places, and to provide structural engineering advice and other expertise needed to determine whether historic places can be restored.

CITY TEAM MINISTRIES
San Jose, Calif.
Amount raised: $200,000
Where the money is going: To run two shelters for refugees in Baton Rouge and to rebuild a community center in Bay St. Louis, Miss., where the group is distributing food and clothing.

TIDES FOUNDATION (CALIF.)
San Francisco
Amount raised: $200,000
Where the money is going: Money will go to education, environment, heath-care, and grass-roots charities for relief and rebuilding efforts in cities and towns harmed by Katrina.

HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL
Little Rock, Ark.
Amount raised: $180,000
Where the money is going: To help low-income farm families in Louisiana and Mississippi get food for livestock, repair fencing and housing for livestock, and replace animals. The money will help farmers get back to the point they were before the storm hit and assist in the rebuilding of cities and towns damaged by the hurricane.

ENTERPRISE CORPORATION OF THE DELTA
Jackson, Miss.
Amount raised: $175,289
Where the money is going: To charities assisting Louisiana and Mississippi refugees with food, shelter, and clothing. The organization will also work on long-term efforts to rebuild cities and towns devastated by the hurricane, provide businesses with financing, and help people get the money they need to put a down payment on a new home.

AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS
Washington
Amount raised: $100,000
Where the money is going: To government-financed arts agencies in the hurricane-damaged regions and to help artists and arts organizations rebuild.

SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND
Atlanta
Amount raised: $50,000
Where the money is going: To help grass-roots charities harmed by the hurricane get their programs back in operation, document stories of survivors, and rebuild the hurricane-ravaged areas in ways intended to achieve racial, social, and economic equity.