A total of $28,300,000 was raised by 252 federations, welfare funds and United Jewish Appeals during the Fall of 1940 and the Spring and Summer of 1941, according to information released here today by the Council of Jewish Federation and Welfare Funds.
An analysis of the contributions received by 44 of the 252 fund-raising agencies, indicating the proportion of large and small gifts and the extent of participation in different-sized communities, has just been completed by the Council. The 44 federations and welfare funds, which raised $12,070, 894, approximately 43 percent of the total realized by all the reporting organizations, held their campaigns in cities having about 63 percent of the estimated total Jewish population of the United States. The total raised in the 44 campaigns represents gifts from 230,393 contributors.
The analysis shows that in both large and small campaigns the largest proportion of the total is contributed by a relatively small number of “big” contributors. Contributors of $100 and over constituted only 9.5 percent of the total number of contributors to the 44 campaigns; the total contributed by them, however, amounted to 79.8 percent of the total raised. On the other hand, contributors of less than $10, representing 54.1 percent of the total number of contributors, were responsible for 3.3 percent of the total attained.
For the 44 campaigns as a whole, the average contribution was $52.39. In campaigns of $500,000 and over, the average contribution amounted to $60.98; in the smaller campaigns, it ranged from $30.30 to $43.70, the analysis establishes.
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