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What’s the impact of your giving?

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Published March 11, 2025

Impact can’t always be measured in dollars, but every donation helps advance a cause.

Every individual can impact their community by donating to organizations they care about. And every nonprofit you give to has a unique impact, from improving access to cultural events to protecting endangered species. These impacts can’t always be measured in dollars or easily compared to each other, but every donation helps advance a cause.

5 ways your giving to nonprofits benefits us all. There are numerous ways that philanthropic giving helps organizations better our lives. Here are a handful to consider. Your giving keeps us healthy: Nonprofits operate 49% of Medicare-enrolled hospitals in America. Your giving allows us access to natural wonders: More than 450 local organizations support America’s national parks. Your giving preserves culture: Individual donor gifts to 78% of American museums have increased or stayed about the same over the last five years. Your giving protects animals: Zoos and aquariums, many of them nonprofits, spend $160 million a year on conservation efforts around the world. Your giving creates jobs: The nonprofit community has 12.8 million employees and accounts for nearly 10% of America’s private workforce.

Your giving also spurs research. Gifts help the nonprofit sector spend billions of dollars each year on lifesaving research and development—$28 billion in 2022 alone. The majority of it was spent on health, social science and engineering.

Helping those in need boosts the economy. Nonprofits that help families in need add more than $1 trillion of value to the U.S. GDP each quarter. That number shows the sector’s output after accounting for input, and it’s been growing steadily.

Philanthropy offers a win-win

Philanthropy can make a positive impact on causes you care about and offer tax advantages. To learn more about how to maximize the value of your giving, talk with your Wealth Advisor about our Philanthropic Solutions team.

Talk to your Regions Wealth Advisor about:

  1. How philanthropy would work with your current wealth plan.
  2. How to craft a mission statement for your giving strategy.

Unlock the potential of your philanthropy.
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