Israelis donated 432 million shekels through the digital fundraising platform Charidy in 2025, marking a 37% increase from the previous year despite ongoing security instability, the company said in a year-end report released this week.
The jump follows 365 million shekels raised in 2024 and reflects what Charidy CEO Shay Chervinsky called a "more focused and mature" approach to giving. Globally, donations through the platform rose more than 21%, from $606 million in 2024 to $734 million in 2025.
The platform hosted 3,931 active campaigns worldwide in 2025, up from 3,739 the previous year. The company said the data suggests nonprofit organizations are increasingly turning to strategic, large-scale digital campaigns to reach highly targeted audiences.
Among the most notable efforts was a record-breaking campaign by the Chabad yeshiva in the northern city of Safed, which raised nearly 100 million shekels—one of the largest crowdfunding efforts ever seen in Israel. Longstanding medical aid organizations also saw broad support, with Ezer Mizion attracting the highest number of individual donors to a single campaign. Other major campaigns were led by groups such as Larger Than Life and Friends of Magen David Adom.
Charidy also reported a significant rise in "major gifts"—high-value donations made through digital platforms. The largest single contribution reached 7.2 million shekels.
“The 2025 data proves that Israeli philanthropy has entered a professional, mature phase,” said Chervinsky. “Even in a challenging year, the public opened its heart. But it did so in a more precise way. This double-digit growth in Israel, alongside similar trends in our global offices, is the result of improved technology and organizations’ growing ability to translate data into trust-based success stories.”