Last week, I implored you all to give the last-minute donations that would make our tenth annual charity drive our most successful one ever. You did donate in record numbers, but we just barely missed setting a new record for total money donated.
All told, Ars Technica readers donated $38,738.11 to Child's Play and the EFF through our 2016 charity drive. That's just about $123 under the record-setting pace set in the 2015 drive, but well higher than every other year we've run the contest.
Over 660 of you donated this year, a new record that improves on the 615 that donated last year. That's includes more than 100 readers who were able to dig deep and give over $100, nearly matching last year's mark for "big" donors.
Thanks to everyone who gave whatever they could. We're still very early in the process of selecting and notifying winners of our swag giveaway, so don't fret if you haven't heard if you're a winner yet. In the meantime, enjoy these quick stats from the 2016 drive.
- 2016 Fundraising total: $38,738.11 (down $122.95 from 2015)
- Total given to Child's Play: $15,039.74 (down $7,991.32)
- Total given to the EFF: $23,698.37 (up $7,893.37)
- Number of individual donations: 665 (up 50)
- Child's Play donations: 350 (down 61)
- EFF donations: 315 (up 112)
- Average donation: $58.25 (down $4.94)
- Child's Play average donation: $42.86 (down $35.00)
- EFF average donation: $75.46 (up $19.42)
- Median donation: $25 (even)
- Median Child's Play donation: $24.96 (up $1.28)
- Median EFF donation: $2 (even)
- Top single donation: $2,500 (to EFF)
- Donations of $1,000 or more: 4
- Donations of $100 or more: 108
- $1 donations: 6 (every little bit helps!)
- EFF donations made via Bitcoin: 1 (for 0.038525 BTC total)
- Total charity donations from Ars Technica drives since 2007 (approximate): $243,977.13
- 2015: $38,861.06
- 2014: $25,094.31
- 2013: $23,570.13
- 2012: $28,713.52
- 2011: ~$26,000
- 2010: ~$24,000
- 2009: ~$17,000
- 2008: ~$12,000
- 2007: ~$10,000
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