2024-10-172024-10-172024-10-23Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. (2024). Overall household charitable giving: 2021 overview.https://hdl.handle.net/1805/44044https://doi.org/10.7912/JQDJ-4007This fact sheet shares findings on overall charitable giving from American households in 2020. It uses data from the 2021 wave of the Panel Philanthropy Study (PPS), a module of the Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID). The PPS is the nation’s first and largest ongoing longitudinal study examining the charitable giving of American households over time. This fact sheet presents the giving rate (the percentage of U.S. households that gave) and the average and median gift amounts among U.S. donor households to charity.en-UScharitable givingPanel Philanthropy Study (PPS)trendsWorking Paper