athena53
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We are on at least 3 dozen mailing lists now. I kept warning DW that most of the charities she wanted to support would sell our info. I was right!
I've found that, too. I tend to give somewhat large donations ($200 and up) and never seemed to get too many mailings from "new" charities but I started getting a lot of mail from unfamiliar (but legitimate) groups after I ordered prayer cards for DH's funeral from a religious publishing company. (I'm also getting a steady supply of address labels.) When my brothers took over Dad's finances they found he was giving $50 here, $25 there to a ton of small charities. My elderly Aunt (80, going blind and spent down nearly to the Medicaid minimum before Uncle died in LTC) was getting calls from charities while I was visiting her.
I think the ones that go for small average donations tend to sell their lists but the ones who get donations of $500 or $1000 protect those names.