Title: Patterns of Giving by the Wealthy
Organization: Urban Institute
Summary: While almost all rich people give to charity during their lifetimes, most of them don’t make charitable contributions when they die.
When such donors do give to nonprofits in their wills, those bequests are on average much larger than the gifts they gave over their last few years of life, even though giving while they were alive would have almost always reduced their total tax burden.
Additional findings from the study, which compared the estate-tax returns with the income tax of wealthy donors who died in 2007:
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