Charity Donations

Compassion International focuses on the spiritual, economic, physical and social needs of children in poverty. Founded in 1952 by Rev. Everett Swanson, Compassion began by providing food, shelter and education, as well as Christian training, to Korean war orphans. Today, with support from child sponsors and generous charity donations, Compassion helps more than 728,000 impoverished children in more than 20 countries throughout the world. Follow the links below and learn how you can forever change the future of a child in need.

• Ways to sponsor a child
• Learn more about our child sponsorship program
• Child sponsorship photo tours
• Financial information
• Christian child sponsorship testimonials
• Opportunities for charity donations
• Make a one-time, tax-deductible gift

A Tax-Deductible Gift

Compassion allows you to choose which cause your charity donation will support. Gifts to our nonprofit charitable organization are tax-deductible, and you can also make an online donation for charity.

Child Survival Program

An exciting dimension to Compassion’s ministry is the Child Survival Program. This program decreases infant mortality in families of participants by educating mothers and primary caregivers on critical care issues before and after their children are born. Charity donations to the Child Survival program help staff provide information on topics such as growth monitoring and immunization.

By providing this crucial information to mothers, children are more likely to survive their early years, a time when they are susceptible to disease and malnutrition. In fact, research has shown that the first five years of a child’s life are a critical period for development and directly affect the quality of a child’s adult life. The charity donations we receive allow our programs to positively affect the lives of young children.

Child Sponsorship Program

Your charity donations can offer a lifetime of learning for one special little boy or girl. Compassion’s Child Sponsorship Program is a powerful approach to Christian child development that prepares children for adulthood. With your charity donations, these children are prepared to:

• Follow Jesus Christ in faith and deed as part of their spiritual training
• Support themselves and share with others in need as part of their economic training
• Be responsible members of their family, church, community and nation as part of their social training
• Maintain their own physical well-being

The knowledge and skills children learn through our Child Sponsorship Program allows them to succeed in their adult life and make a difference in their own churches, communities and nations.

Other Opportunities for Charity Donations

Compassion has a variety of other charitable giving opportunities that provide aid to children in need in different ways. No matter which fund you choose, you can be assured that at least 80 percent of your charity donations will be used to directly support Compassion’s programs that help the children around the world.

If you are uncertain where to donate your tax-deductible gift, you have the opportunity to make an immediate and long-lasting impact by supporting our Partners of Compassion Fund.  This fund helps meets needs that child sponsorship funds do not cover, such as parenting-skill activities, providing Bibles to children, or disaster relief for families.

Creative Charity Donations

Living Sponsorship

With Compassion, you have the option to establish a Living Sponsorship to make a solid commitment to provide for one child’s future. Living Sponsorship funds are wisely invested in a common fund to ensure one deserving child will receive ongoing, monthly support throughout your lifetime and beyond.

Gifts of Stock

Gifts of stock are another way to make an online donation for charity. If you have appreciated stock, you can use it as a tax-deductible gift to give one special child a better life. Charity donations of stock allow you to contribute a sizeable gift to Compassion and, at the same time, receive a charitable income tax deduction in the year the donation is made.

Gift Annuity Program

If you would like to provide a child in need with fixed charity donations every month, you can invest in our Gift Annuity Program. This program ensures you a fixed income that will pay out annually, semiannually, quarterly or monthly, whichever you prefer. Our gift annuity pays out a higher rate of return than both savings accounts and certificates of deposit, and it has long been valued by financial planners as a sound investment option. And in the event of a donor’s death, the fixed income becomes a permanent gift to Compassion, perpetually helping children in need.

There are various ways to make creative charity donations, but no matter which way you choose, your tax-deductible gift can help improve the lives of numerous children throughout the world.

The Time is Now

With Compassion, more than 80 percent of all charity donations go to program activities for the children. When you make an online donation for charity for children in need, you can see exactly where your money goes. Our annual reports break down all charity donations we use for program and supporting expenses, and we also insist on audits to evaluate the effectiveness of the programs in the lives of children.

Compassion International has been recognized by several publications and financial accountability groups for our superior financial integrity, including Forbes’ “Giving Smartly” Charities 2002 and 2001 Listings, and The American Institute of Philanthropy.

When you make charity donations with Compassion, you can be certain that your money is being used to improve the lives of others. You have the opportunity to make a difference in the world. Please, help save the life of one little boy or girl in need—make an online donation for charity today.