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It's amazing to look at the AmazonSmile form 990. It's a 2000 page pdf with a list of every charity that received a donation along with the amount:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/46262...

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It's pretty cool that there are 19 pages with charities getting over $1k/yr. Each page has over 100 charities too! That's an insane amount of charities getting help. $1k might not seem like a lot, but for some of these groups it is, especially since it is likely in addition to other avenues of funding.

If anyone's wondering why this PDF is taking a while to load, it's 262MB.

Electronic Frontier Foundation and code.org were the 13th and 14th orgs with the most money donated.

It is pretty fascinating to read down the list and see what kind of orgs common people chose to donate to.

I wish there was a searchable text version.

The vast majority of those 1 million organizations received less than 100 dollars.

I suppose, it does bring me joy that a local no-kill shelter got $42,631.17 and I was able to get about $30 into that, its not ground breaking, but that's kind of the point of smile right. I guess I can donate out of my own pocket to the same shelter moving forward.

I wonder if some of these places were just really really good about advertising and asking their customers/community to give them a nod in their Prime accounts.

I'm not sure, but one of their locations did suffer from a fire within the past year, and they got enough donations to rebuild within a few short days, around that time I changed my Amazon Smile donation, I assume others thought the same thing I thought around that time window. It will be a shame that Amazon will take away donations from so many good places. I know I can donate myself directly, but it was far more meaningful that Amazon was doing so as you ordered things.

actually amazon was the main advertiser for the top charities on the list, when you went to sign up st jude's was the recommended charity

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