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ceejayoz

> I could make 12% on them and give 5% directly at a much better rate.

You could. Would you, though?

History (milennia of it) says the average answer is "no".

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I already give 11% of my income away, so yes.

Is 10% of that a church tithe?

Does it matter?

Yes.

Haha, why? Or are you just assuming all churches are Christian? Or does that not matter either?

The religion in question doesn’t matter.

I don’t see maintaining a church and staff as the same as maintaining a charitable clinic and its staff. As such, I don’t count a tithed dollar as necessarily equivalent as a dollar given to a high quality secular charity.

No. But since you're so curious, why don't you post yours first?

My charitable budget mostly goes to $50k or so of annual healthcare spending, between premiums, copays, and whatnot. I've yet to find a charity willing to cover it, which is part of why I'm pretty skeptical about scaling that approach up even further.

If you're giving 11% to genuinely charitable causes, good for you! But you're very, very much an outlier.

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