Individual giving
According to the Report 14 Jahre Deutscher Spendenmonitor – Fakten und Trends im Zeitverlauf by the TNS Infratest Holding GmbH & Co. KG (2008; data from October 2007 to October 2008), 2.8 billion € have been donated to third sector entities in Germany by approximately 27 million people over 14-years old.
The average donations amounts to 102 €, and women are apparently more generous than men (44% of women donates, against 40% of men). Moreover, differences between West and East Germany are clear: 43% of the population makes a donation in West Germany against 37% in East Germany.
Age groups that are more willing to donations are the seniors and the 50/64-years old people, with respectively 61% and 45% of donating people.
Corporate giving
As the 2007 Report Citizenship in Germany and a Transatlantic Comparison with the USA – Results of a CCCD Survey by the Centrum für Corporate Citizenship Deutschland (Centre for Corporate Citizenship Germany, CCCD) asserts, 29.1% of the firms donate up to 5,000 €, whereas the 30.5% of the firms donated from 10,000 to 50,000 €. The small- and medium-sized enterprises mostly donate up to 50,000 € (86.3% of the small firms and the 65.7% of the medium firms fall in the first three donation categories); 42.1% of the bigger firms, instead, donates from 50,000 to over 100,000 € (2005 data).
