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Agree. Perhaps SOMEONE somewhere knows that you gave a donation, but functionally, many donations are as good as anonymous. If I give $300 (or even $3000) to a
by chadash 6y ago
Agree. Perhaps SOMEONE somewhere knows that you gave a donation, but functionally, many donations are as good as anonymous. If I give $300 (or even $3000) to a food bank, no one is calling to give me a congratulations. Do they have my name? Yes. They might send an automated thank you. And they DEFINITELY will reach out for future donations. But it doesn’t have a meaningful effect on my reputation.
- ghaff 6y agoFor relatively modest amounts, you can certainly hand the person in charge hundred dollar bills and trust them to do the right thing with it without giving your name. You start donating large sums to a school or other non-profit though and they pretty much have to know where the money is coming from. (Though, as you say, you can still be functionally anonymous and can likely even tell them to take you off their charitable pestering list.)