Last year, our first-ever Year in Review showcased the incredible generosity of Daffy members, with contributions growing by 425% to over $105 million set aside for charity. This significant growth surprised even long-time industry followers, highlighting the demand for a modern giving platform like Daffy.

Our latest Year in Review shows that enthusiasm has only grown. Last year, Daffy members set aside over $198 million for charity and donated over $40 million to charities, with the number of donations increasing by 164%.

With all this generosity, one question keeps coming up: Which charities received the most donations?

To celebrate the generosity of our members, we’re once again sharing the top 20 charities on Daffy, ranked by the number of donations received in 2024.

Of course, Daffy supports donating to nearly any legal public charity in the U.S., which includes more than 1.7 million charities, schools, and religious organizations. So even if your favorite nonprofit didn’t make this list, you can still support them on Daffy!

One major trend we’ve seen? Many of the top charities benefited from Daffy Campaigns, our fundraising feature that allows members to rally their friends and communities around causes they care about. If you’re looking for a way to amplify your impact in 2025, consider turning your next donation into a matching campaign!

The Top 20 Charities on Daffy in 2024

1. World Central Kitchen: Founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen has served more than 400 million fresh meals to people impacted by natural disasters and other crises around the world. They provide fresh meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises.
2. Compassion International: Compassion International is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to the long-term development of children living in poverty around the world. Through sponsorship programs and holistic support, they provide education, healthcare, and life skills to help children thrive.
3. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of their founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion, or a family's ability to pay. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
4. Campus Crusade for Christ: Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU)’s mission is to win, build, and send Christ-centered multiplying disciples who launch spirituals who launch spiritual movements. Their vision is movements everywhere so that everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus.
5. Wikimedia Foundation: The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge. They host Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, created, edited, and verified by volunteers around the world, as well as many other vital community projects.
6. Doctors Without Borders: Doctors Without Borders’ mission is to provide impartial medical relief to the victims of war, disease, and natural or man-made disasters, without regard to race, religion, or political affiliation. Every day, Doctors Without Borders teams deliver emergency medical aid to people in crisis, with humanitarian projects in more than 70 countries.
7. Charity: Water: Since Charity: Water was founded in 2006, they’ve been focused on one ambitious goal: ending the global water crisis. They partner with experienced local organizations that build sustainable, community-owned water projects around the world. To date, they and their donors have helped fund over 171,000 water projects in 29 countries serving over 19 million people.
8. Alzheimer’s Association: The Alzheimer’s Association leads the way in ending Alzheimer’s and all other forms of dementia by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support for those affected.
9. GiveWell: GiveWell is a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. Unlike charity evaluators that focus solely on financials, assessing administrative or fundraising costs, GiveWell conducts in-depth research aiming to determine how much good a given program accomplishes (in terms of lives saved, lives improved, etc.) per dollar spent.
10. GiveDirectly: GiveDirectly's mission is to reshape international giving, making unconditional, direct cash transfers to the poor the benchmark against which other interventions are evaluated. They believe the best way of achieving this mission is by maximizing cash delivered to the poor, with the ultimate aim of ending extreme poverty.
11. Planned Parenthood: Planned Parenthood provides essential reproductive healthcare, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide. They offer a range of services, including cancer screenings, STI testing, birth control access, and abortion care, advocating for the right to affordable and accessible healthcare.
12. Undue Medical Debt: Since 2014, Undue Medical Debt (also known as RIP Medical Debt) has abolished $14,807,982,958 in medical debt for over 9.85 million people in the United States. Their mission is to end medical debt and provide financial relief to individuals burdened by unpayable healthcare costs. By leveraging donations, they buy and forgive medical debt for those in need, offering a fresh start to families affected by the high cost of healthcare.
13. Young Life: Young Life's mission is to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith. They are a Christian ministry that reaches out to middle school, high school, and college students in all 50 of the United States and in more than 100 countries around the world.
14. Palestine’s Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF): The Palestine Children's Relief Fund provides free medical care to children in the Middle East, regardless of nationality or religion. They organize medical missions, bring children abroad for complex treatments, and offer humanitarian aid in conflict-affected areas. To date, they have sent over 2,000 children abroad for medical care and deployed thousands of international doctors and nurses to treat tens of thousands of children in local hospitals.
15. The Citizens Foundation: The Citizens Foundation is one of Pakistan’s leading organizations in education, working to provide quality schooling to underprivileged children. They have built and operated thousands of schools, ensuring equitable education, especially for girls.
16. American Red Cross: The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in emergencies by mobilizing volunteers and donors to provide disaster relief, lifesaving blood donations, and emergency preparedness training across the U.S. In 2023, they distributed $108 million in financial assistance directly to people after disasters of all sizes.
17. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): The ACLU fights to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. They advocate for free speech, voting rights, reproductive rights, racial justice, and more through litigation and policy change.
18. Feeding America: Feeding America is on a mission to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities they serve. They are a nationwide network of over 200 food banks that, in 2023, distributed 5.3 billion meals to individuals and families in need.
19. Electronic Frontier Foundation: The Electronic Frontier Foundation defends civil liberties in the digital world, fighting for privacy, free expression, and innovation through litigation, advocacy, and technology development.
20. Lorenzo’s House: Lorenzo’s House provides holistic support to families facing young-onset dementia, offering resources, community connections, and advocacy to empower caregivers and loved ones navigating this challenging diagnosis.

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