Giving trends in 2021 were inconsistent. Americans gave 22% more to museums, theaters and other arts, culture and humanities organizations than in 2020, a year when those donations declined. Giving to public-society benefit groups, a broad category encompassing the United Way, the largest donor-advised funds, civil rights groups and voter-registration organizations, remained high at 18%. At the other end of the spectrum, donations to educational causes, including colleges and universities, fell by 7%.