Salvation army and family or people who need it. A lot of churches now are money based.

The problem with giving to the wrong charities is it’s a business ran by professional collocation people that take a percentage of the donations then sell your personal information as many times as they can so the begging is never ending. I do the red kettle at Christmas time just drop in and walk away no info shared and they are a reputable outfit.

Nope. My family prefers donating to non religious affiliated charities.

Recently support a local Boy Scout troupe. Their facility was completely washed away by Hurricane Helene. We gift directly from our IRA, thus it is never taxed and the distribution counts toward our MRD.

St Jude