While the decrease in total number of religious Americans affects all faith-based philanthropies in the United States, unique challenges are presented to non-Christian philanthropies. Although the great majority of religious Americans are Christian, there is a great deal of good currently being done by non-Christian faith based philanthropies. Quick examples? (with image(s))

Reduced Population And Community

The main clear problem that arises is the lower population of religious followers and therefore much less donators. (IMAGE) The biggest non-Christian religious group in America is Judaism, which only accounts for 1.9% of the US population and non-Christian religious groups in total account for 5.9% of the population, while 70.6% are Christian. This is a stark difference and definitely provides some challenges to finding a group of able philanthropists. This also leads to smaller communities that are less frequent and harder to find, which is a large force behind giving. “Evidence has shown that community philanthropy initiatives[...] are better able to sustain and adapt to changing needs, even when receiving external support.” (https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/community-philanthropy#:~:text=Evidence%20has%20shown%20that%20community,even%20when%20receiving%20external%20support.)