Americans have donated roughly $298 billion to US charities last year with a 4 percent increase from 2010.
According to Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, an estimated 117 million US households, 12 million corporations, 99,000 estates, and 76,000 foundations have given to charities last year. Most of the money went to the registered charities and religious groups.
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Meticulon, a project of Autism Calgary Association in partnership with the federal government and the Sinneave Family Foundation, operates as a social enterprise that renders high-tech services provided by people with autism, leveraging their natural abilities at requiring attention to detail, repetition, and sequencing.