How much did candidates give to charity

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Print Subscriptions. Deseret News homepage. Filed under: U. Which candidate gives the most to charity? Reddit Pocket Email Linkedin. Grid View. So how much do each of the candidates give to charity? Next Up In U. Sign up for the newsletter Morning Edition Start your day with the top stories you missed while you were sleeping. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email address required. And the Talmud cautions that whether or not some recipients are actually in need or are merely grifters should not be the concern of the giver.

Hohmann points out that Harris reported zero charitable giving in the first three years when she was attorney general, ramping up to the tens of thousands after she wed Emhoff in In the same year, Hohmann notes , Barack and Michelle Obama gave away 22 percent of their combined income.

So, it can be done. You can reach her at Singer forward. Home Share Search. Email Facebook Twitter. Give Podcast Subscribe. Or at least be worth knowing. Deseret News compiled the available tax and giving rates of all of the candidates, attempting to glean which candidate gives the most.

And we're here to break those numbers down ever further. Sadly but not surprisingly , not all candidates have made their tax returns public. For those still in the race with no information available, we rounded up whatever charity ties we could find to present a candidate-by-candidate snapshot of their giving tendencies—and how each candidate compares to one another, former presidential candidates and the average American.

All candidates still in the running have been listed alphabetically by last name, regardless of party affiliation. Or sanity. That said, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon and his wife co-founded Carson Scholars Fund Inc. The Ben Carson Reading Project has funded more than reading rooms in schools throughout the country to help kids foster an interest in reading for fun. Hillary Clinton, Democrat By numbers alone, Clinton ranks highest in charity among the current candidates.

In , the former Secretary of State recorded a But the donations mostly go into her foundation s —and trying to trace her donation practices gave us a headache. That means at least some, if not most, of her charitable donations went to her own public charity. Ultimately, trying to track Clinton's donations was like playing whisper down the lane. Ted Cruz, Republican The most recent tax filings for Cruz date back to , and report a 0.

We think that speaks for itself. Type that into a calculator and it comes out to a giving rate of roughly 2.