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It's amazing to look at the AmazonSmile form 990. It's a 2000 page pdf with a list of every charity that received a donation along with the amount: https://pro

by vwcx 4y ago

It's amazing to look at the AmazonSmile form 990. It's a 2000 page pdf with a list of every charity that received a donation along with the amount: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/462626883/09_2019_prefixes_45-46%2F462626883_201812_990PF_2019091716657143 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/46262...

orf 4y ago
The vast majority of those 1 million organizations received less than 100 dollars.
- giancarlostoro 4y ago
  I suppose, it does bring me joy that a local no-kill shelter got $42,631.17 and I was able to get about $30 into that, its not ground breaking, but that's kind of the point of smile right. I guess I can donate out of my own pocket to the same shelter moving forward.
  - ugh123 4y ago
    I wonder if some of these places were just really really good about advertising and asking their customers/community to give them a nod in their Prime accounts.
    - giancarlostoro 4y ago
      I'm not sure, but one of their locations did suffer from a fire within the past year, and they got enough donations to rebuild within a few short days, around that time I changed my Amazon Smile donation, I assume others thought the same thing I thought around that time window. It will be a shame that Amazon will take away donations from so many good places. I know I can donate myself directly, but it was far more meaningful that Amazon was doing so as you ordered things.
    - vxNsr 4y ago
      actually amazon was the main advertiser for the top charities on the list, when you went to sign up st jude's was the recommended charity
laverya 4y ago
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- CoastalCoder 4y ago
  Honest question: why would tech companies oppose those charities in particular?
  - culi 4y ago
    One of the primary strategies activists have managed to successfully deploy against those groups is through targeting advertisers. Also most tech workers are college educated which is a demographic that (increasingly) supports gun control/does not like the NRA
    - lockhouse 4y ago
      > Also most tech workers are college educated which is a demographic that (increasingly) supports gun control/does not like the NRA It's less a college educated versus not and more an urban versus rural issue.
      - krapp 4y ago
        >It's less a college educated versus not and more an urban versus rural issue. The general mistrust of academia, liberal arts and mainstream science amongst the rural populace suggests those issues overlap quite a bit.
      - culi 4y ago
        tomato tomato
        bumby 4y ago
        Tomato potato You might be confusing correlation as something more substantive
godelski 4y ago
It's pretty cool that there are 19 pages with charities getting over $1k/yr. Each page has over 100 charities too! That's an insane amount of charities getting help. $1k might not seem like a lot, but for some of these groups it is, especially since it is likely in addition to other avenues of funding.
chrisbolt 4y ago
If anyone's wondering why this PDF is taking a while to load, it's 262MB.
irrational 4y ago
Electronic Frontier Foundation and code.org were the 13th and 14th orgs with the most money donated. It is pretty fascinating to read down the list and see what kind of orgs common people chose to donate to. I wish there was a searchable text version.

by vwcx 4y ago

orf 4y ago

The vast majority of those 1 million organizations received less than 100 dollars.

giancarlostoro 4y ago
I suppose, it does bring me joy that a local no-kill shelter got $42,631.17 and I was able to get about $30 into that, its not ground breaking, but that's kind of the point of smile right. I guess I can donate out of my own pocket to the same shelter moving forward.
- ugh123 4y ago
  I wonder if some of these places were just really really good about advertising and asking their customers/community to give them a nod in their Prime accounts.
  - giancarlostoro 4y ago
    I'm not sure, but one of their locations did suffer from a fire within the past year, and they got enough donations to rebuild within a few short days, around that time I changed my Amazon Smile donation, I assume others thought the same thing I thought around that time window. It will be a shame that Amazon will take away donations from so many good places. I know I can donate myself directly, but it was far more meaningful that Amazon was doing so as you ordered things.
  - vxNsr 4y ago
    actually amazon was the main advertiser for the top charities on the list, when you went to sign up st jude's was the recommended charity

laverya 4y ago

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CoastalCoder 4y ago
Honest question: why would tech companies oppose those charities in particular?
- culi 4y ago
  One of the primary strategies activists have managed to successfully deploy against those groups is through targeting advertisers. Also most tech workers are college educated which is a demographic that (increasingly) supports gun control/does not like the NRA
  - lockhouse 4y ago
    > Also most tech workers are college educated which is a demographic that (increasingly) supports gun control/does not like the NRA It's less a college educated versus not and more an urban versus rural issue.
    - krapp 4y ago
      >It's less a college educated versus not and more an urban versus rural issue. The general mistrust of academia, liberal arts and mainstream science amongst the rural populace suggests those issues overlap quite a bit.
    - culi 4y ago
      tomato tomato
      - bumby 4y ago
        Tomato potato You might be confusing correlation as something more substantive

godelski 4y ago

It's pretty cool that there are 19 pages with charities getting over $1k/yr. Each page has over 100 charities too! That's an insane amount of charities getting help. $1k might not seem like a lot, but for some of these groups it is, especially since it is likely in addition to other avenues of funding.

chrisbolt 4y ago

If anyone's wondering why this PDF is taking a while to load, it's 262MB.

irrational 4y ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation and code.org were the 13th and 14th orgs with the most money donated. It is pretty fascinating to read down the list and see what kind of orgs common people chose to donate to. I wish there was a searchable text version.