Private giving to international causes went down in 2014.
Despite raising $16.2 billion in 2014, the nonprofit sector in the United States saw a drop in giving for causes related to international affairs, according to the 2014 Charitable Giving Report. This was because there were no major disasters and high-profile fundraising events that year, according to the report.
In the same year, individual donations from the U.K. public totaled 10.6 billion pounds ($16.4 billion), according to the Charities Aid Foundation’s latest private giving survey. Overseas giving ranked fourth in the list of causes individuals donated to that year — behind medical research, children’s interests, hospitals and animal welfare.
The U.K.-based charity recalibrated data in this year’s report to take the change in methodology into consideration. Previous surveys were done three times in a year; the 2014 surveys ran four times that year. Based on recalibrated data that has not been adjusted for inflation, donations from the U.K. public dropped nearly 2 percent from 2013’s 10.8 billion pounds total.
