there's another effect, you donate food, it's food and it's most likely going to be used as food[1], if you donate money there's zero guarantee that those money

there's another effect, you donate food, it's food and it's most likely going to be used as food[1], if you donate money there's zero guarantee that those money will be used toward the purchase of food. it might be used toward a fundraiser, for a greater total effect in the best case scenario, but still, giving food is a statement of intent that a charity cannot convert in liquidity assuming the worst case scenarios. [1]there's a lot of stuff actually going on behind charity, for example here clothes bank don't donate clothes around to the poor, clothes get sold in bulk by weight and the earning go toward sustaining the charity operations first and what's left is sent to the poor in various ways. which is fine, as long as 'operations' are kept lean, but nobody really looks so there's a bit of everything going on.