Marin County leads the state in a study about charitable contributions.
The analysis was conducted by SmartAsset, a financial advice website. The study “calculated how much people donate as a percentage of their net income and the proportion of people in each county who make charitable donations,” the company said.
With those two figures, the analysts came up with a “charitable county index.” Marin’s contributions as a percentage of income came to 2.8%, and its percentage of returns itemizing charitable contributions was 23.5%. Its “charitable county index” was 87.99, the highest in the state.
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Rounding out the top 10 were San Mateo County with an index of 74.08; Santa Clara County, 65.57; Contra Costa County, 63.25; Placer County, 59.45; Orange County, 58.38; San Francisco County, 57.24; Ventura County, 56.40; El Dorado County, 56.09; and Alameda County, 53.85.
The study was based on Internal Revenue Service data from 2021 that was released in March, said Vanishaa Doshi, a SmartAsset representative.
