mirrorthaw and I donated to four charities for our Observance of Axial Tilt last year. We have received acknowledgments of our donations from all four. Two of them have used those acknowledgments to demand more money. Two of them have not. I was in fact deeply, if somewhat ridiculously, touched by the recorded phone call from Heifer International's president--which started by apologizing for being a recording--because I was expecting all down the line that there would be a "give us more money" worked in there somewhere, and there wasn't. It was a thank you, full stop.

Guess who we're more likely to donate to again?