Charlotte's 9th Most Giving Mero Area (Raleigh, Greensboro: income, richest, rankings)

[friendnc]

According to IRS numbers crunched by Turbo Tax, citizen charitable contributions:

Most Giving
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1. Salt Lake City, UT
2. West Palm Beach, FL
3. Washington, DC (VA/MD)
4. New York City, NY (NJ/CT)
5. San Francisco/Oakland, CA
6. Atlanta, GA
7. Baltimore, MD
8. Birmingham, AL
9. Charlotte, NC (SC)
10. Los Angeles, CA
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16. Greensboro/Winston Salem, NC
17. Raleigh/Durham, NC
21. Greenville/Spartanburg, SC


Least Giving
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1. San Antonio, TX
2. Buffalo, NY
3. Albuquerque, NM
4. Pittsburgh, PA
5. Providence, RI (MA)
6. Orlando, FL
7. Columbus, OH
8. Cleveland/Akron, OH
9. Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL
10. Houston, TX

[anonymous]

I wonder what those rankings look like when normalized by per-capita income.

[alice_61]

I think those numbers would overly represent

1. people who use Turbotax: probably not the richest nor the poorest of citizens.

2. people who make enough to itemize their deductions.

3. people whose church encourages them to contribute heavily (i.e. tithing)

[dengar]

2. West Palm Beach, FL

I can tell you that is wrong. We're a bunch of cheapos down here. In this case its definitely the rich folk and businesses who itemize, especially all the perfectly good stuff they dont use anymore and give to charity.

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by anonymous

I wonder what those rankings look like when normalized by per-capita income.

I was wondering the same thing!!