# How much of a net worth or income would you need before you became a heavy philanthropy donor

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 3, 2019, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-net-worth-or-income-would-you-need-before-you-became-a-heavy-philanthropy-donor/828860 "2019-02-03T01:57:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-net-worth-or-income-would-you-need-before-you-became-a-heavy-philanthropy-donor/828860/21 "2019-02-06T04:56:35Z")

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Like others have said it depends on what you call heavy. For ages I have done 10%; not all to my church but across several charities I believe in. Put me over 100k again (fat chance) and I would probably up that or even double it; living my life doesn’t cost that heavy. As for hierarchy; that 10% comes first before anything else. Yeah; its not for everyone and at times has felt dumb even to me. But its always worked and I don’t have plans on changing that. Its my way of admitting to myself that a lot of folks out there have major issues I can’t even imagine and I should be part of the answer even if it means putting some things off for myself for a while.

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