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Giving in the 50 Largest Metropolitan Areas

By Drew Lindsay

October 3, 2017

The Chronicle used 2015 Internal Revenue Service data on itemized charitable giving to create a snapshot of giving in every county and metropolitan area in the country. (Only donations of taxpayers who took a deduction are included.) Here are figures for the nation’s 50 largest metro areas.

The last column points to each area’s “giving opportunity” — the dollars that would have been raised if giving rates in each of four income groups had matched national averages. The full methodology for the report is here.

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Metro Area	Population	Average Giving per Itemizer	Average % of Income to Charity	Total in Itemized Contributions	Giving Opportunity
New York	20 million	$6,410	2.8%	$20.1 billion	$2.1 billion
Los Angeles	13.2 million	$6,098	2.9%	$9.8 billion	$726 million
Chicago	9.5 million	$5,289	2.7%	$6.8 billion	$907 million
Dallas-Fort Worth	6.8 million	$7,626	3.8%	$5.2 billion	--
Houston	6.3 million	$7,949	3.7%	$5.0 billion	--
Philadelphia	6.0 million	$4,430	2.5%	$4.0 billion	$966 million
Washington	5.9 million	$5,290	2.9%	$6.3 billion	$548 million
Miami-Fort Lauderdale	5.9 million	$8,460	3.4%	$4.3 billion	--
Atlanta	5.5 million	$8,044	4.6%	$5.7 billion	--
Boston	4.7 million	$5,885	2.5%	$4.6 billion	$1.0 billion
San Francisco	4.5 million	$7,275	2.7%	$6.1 billion	$909 million
Phoenix	4.4 million	$5,168	3.1%	$2.3 billion	$126 million
Riverside, Calif.	4.4 million	$3,846	3.0%	$1.8 billion	$69 million
Detroit	4.3 million	$4,700	2.8%	$2.3 billion	$211 million
Seattle	3.6 million	$5,825	3.0%	$3.1 billion	$150 million
Minneapolis-St. Paul	3.5 million	$4,532	2.6%	$2.7 billion	$438 million
San Diego	3.2 million	$4,709	2.5%	$2.0 billion	$422 million
Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla.	2.9 million	$5,965	3.2%	$1.3 billion	$49 million
St. Louis	2.8 million	$5,250	3.0%	$1.8 billion	$10 million
Baltimore	2.8 million	$4,675	3.0%	$2.3 billion	$87 million
Denver	2.7 million	$4,863	2.7%	$2.0 billion	$270 million
Pittsburgh	2.4 million	$4,510	2.5%	$1.1 billion	$231 million
Charlotte, N.C.	2.3 million	$6,457	3.6%	$1.9 billion	--
Portland, Ore.	2.3 million	$4,169	2.6%	$1.5 billion	$257 million
San Antonio	2.3 million	$6,576	3.8%	$1.2 billion	--
Orlando, Fla.	2.3 million	$5,520	3.2%	$900 million	$57 million
Sacramento	2.2 million	$3,689	2.4%	$1.1 billion	$278 million
Cincinnati	2.1 million	$4,580	2.7%	$1.2 billion	$137 million
Cleveland	2.1 million	$4,437	2.8%	$1.1 billion	$113 million
Kansas City, Mo.	2.1 million	$5,259	3.2%	$1.4 billion	--
Las Vegas	2.0 million	$6,097	3.3%	$1.0 billion	$1 million
San Jose, Calif.	1.9 million	$14,046	4.6%	$5.1 billion	$217 million
Austin, Tex.	1.9 million	$6,249	3.0%	$1.4 billion	$52 million
Nashville	1.8 million	$7,641	4.0%	$1.2 billion	--
Virginia Beach	1.7 million	$4,722	3.4%	$1.0 billion	--
Providence, R.I.	1.6 million	$2,748	1.8%	$600 million	$376 million
Milwaukee	1.6 million	$4,629	2.8%	$1.0 billion	$101 million
Jacksonville, Fla.	1.4 million	$7,434	4.2%	$900 million	--
Memphis	1.3 million	$9,329	5.6%	$1.0 billion	--
Oklahoma City	1.3 million	$7,256	4.0%	$900 million	--
Louisville, Ky.	1.3 million	$4,836	3.1%	$700 million	$4 million
Richmond, Va.	1.2 million	$4,892	3.1%	$900 million	$37 million
New Orleans	1.2 million	$5,570	3.1%	$600 million	$35 million
Raleigh, N.C.	1.2 million	$5,511	3.3%	$1.0 billion	--
Hartford, Conn.	1.2 million	$2,994	1.9%	$600 million	$393 million
Salt Lake City	1.1 million	$8,412	5.5%	$1.2 billion	--
Birmingham, Ala.	1.1 million	$9,388	5.4%	$1.1 billion	--
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, N.Y.	1.1 million	$3,411	2.3%	$400 million	$125 million
Columbus, Ohio	1.0 million	$4,189	2.7%	$1.1 billion	$133 million
Indianapolis	1.0 million	$5,413	3.2%	$1.2 billion	$14 million

Giving in the 50 Largest Metropolitan Areas

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