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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
What percentage of charitable giving (globally) is in the form of appreciated assets, as opposed to cold hard cash or even depreciated assets (i.e., Hank's dad's car that he's thinking of giving to the Red Cross so that he can plant something else in the front yard and get the neighbors off his back)?

I would guess that a substantial percentage of the larger gifts do, in fact, involve appreciated assets.

What you'd need are data on the amount of charitable giving per person (i.e., how much came from gifts of <$100, $100-500, 500-1000, >1000, etc.) I would guess that most gifts in the range over a few thousand dollars involve appreciated assets. It's only sensible. And I would guess that a substantial percentage of charitable giving is concentrated in gifts of large amounts, simply because a large gift is generally more than hundreds of small gifts.