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SUBMITTER: Gottesman WL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4077655 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gottesman William L WL Reagan Andrew James AJ Dodds Peter Sheridan PS
PloS one 20140701 7
Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions. We explore the ecology of gifting by analysing data sets of individual gifts for a diverse group of institutions dedicated to education, medicine, art, public support, and religion. We find that the detailed forms of gift-size distributions differ across but are relatively constant within charity ca ...[more]