IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy2015-01-162015-01-162008https://hdl.handle.net/1805/5653Individuals contributed an estimated $3.86 billion. Just over 58.7 percent of Indiana households made a donation to charity in 2006 (the latest year for which individual giving data are available as of mid-2008), an 11 percentage point decrease in the share of Hoosiers who donate to charity from 2003. However, the average gift total of $2,211 per donor household was a 21 percent increase from 2003. According to the 2006 survey, religious beliefs were selected by 67.9 percent of Indiana donors as a major motivation for giving to charity and by 23.0 percent of them as a minor motivation. Hoosiers selected equity as the second highest major motivation for giving to charity. (Equity means that those with more should help those with less.) Nearly 84 percent of Indiana residents also reported that they would give more to charity if nonprofits spent more money on the people nonprofits serve rather than on administrative or fundraising expenses. In addition, 84 percent of Indiana respondents reported that they would give more if they felt more financially secure. Finally, over half (56.6 percent) of Indiana residents reported that they have stopped giving to a particular charity because the organization misled the public about its work.en-USPhilanthropyGivingIndiana GivesGiving USAPresentation