Infographic: What giving $3.5 billion to charity looks like

How the collective impact of one community of donors is changing philanthropy.

What happens when you add up the impact of 150,000 generous donors? Last year, Fidelity Charitable donors recommended a total of $3.5 billion in grants, supporting more than 114,000 nonprofit organizations in every state and all over the world. This combined giving makes Fidelity Charitable the nation’s second-largest grantmaker, behind only the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.¹ Here’s how they do it.

¹Based on a comparison of Fidelity Charitable grant dollars with the grants made by private, corporate, and community foundations, as listed in the Foundation Center's "Top 100 U.S. Foundations by Total Giving" list.