Fewer millennials own homes, get married or go to church. Will they still give to charity?

Charities depend on donors’ generosity to fulfill their missions.  

But in the past few years, the number of Americans who donate to charity has dropped.  

For the first time in nearly two decades, only half of U.S. households donated to charity in 2018, according to a 2021 study by Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Still, total charitable donations are reaching record highs, but the giving is being done by a smaller percentage of the population.