I largely agree. If you're making a donation and you aren't anonymous to everyone but the people who have some control over the money being donated, your ego i

I largely agree. If you're making a donation and you aren't anonymous to everyone but the people who have some control over the money being donated, your ego is involved somewhere. I wouldn't say that non-anonymous donations aren't charity, but rather that they are charity with strings attached. And this does look like a publicity stunt, despite whatever the man's intentions may be. Also, vectorbunny has a deep philosophical and spiritual point here, as he later elaborates on, and I don't believe he deserves the downvotes simply for stating his view of true charity. Yes, in the United States, the word charity doesn't imply anonymous donations, but charity is an ancient concept going back to the dawn of civilization.