Mormon charitable giving compared to American corporate giving

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In 2021, the Church’s donations added up to nearly $1 billion and its membership gave 6.8 million hours in service. Similar numbers for 2022 will be released next year.

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.or ... eview-2022

Across the globe, Apple and its teams find new ways to give.

The company’s Employee Giving program has raised over $880 million, with more than 2 million volunteer hours logged

Since its inception 11 years ago, Apple’s Employee Giving program has raised over $880 million dollars for almost 44,000 organizations globally. That includes the work of more than 76,000 employees who have logged more than 2.1 million volunteer hours. For every hour an Apple employee volunteers or dollar they donate, Apple matches with a monetary donation to the same organization. In addition to volunteer activities and contributions made through the Employee Giving program, Apple also contributes millions of dollars to nonprofits through corporate grants

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/ ... s-to-give/


Apple and the Mormon church have roughly the same valuation, in the trillion dollar range. Yet the church seems to be about 10 times as giving. This must be a huge win for the church and vindication of their financial stewardship. No?

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1) There are tax advantages for donations by corporations. This is not an issue for churches in any case.

2) I'm really not sure why we expect churches to be in the charity business at all. I know this is a radical concept, but their primary function is to help people develop spiritually. Whether or not the succeed in this is a separate discussion- but in my opinion part of their mandate is to bring their adherents to the point where the members opt to give alms of their own accord. Either way the poor get help. Misrepresenting their distribution of tithes is of course evil. But you and I bear the ultimate moral imperative to provide charity. And plenty of people do that very thing. Can more be done? Certainly. But to shunt the responsibility onto the churches is dereliction of duty on our part. in my opinion.