--- title: Obama Tax Returns: Here's Where the Obamas Donated description: The first couple donated more than $64,000 canonical: https://time.com/4296583/obama-tax-returns-charity/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-15T22:05:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:48:12.636Z article:section: Politics og:title: Obama Tax Returns: Here's Where the Obamas Donated og:description: The first couple donated more than $64,000 og:url: https://time.com/4296583/obama-tax-returns-charity/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obama Tax Returns: Here's Where the Obamas Donated twitter:description: The first couple donated more than $64,000 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here Are All the Charities the Obamas Gave to in 2015  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Apr 15, 2016 10:05 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Apr 15, 2016 10:05 PM UTC President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama donated more than $64,000 to charity in 2015, about 15% of their income, according to a [copy of the couple’s tax returns](http://time.com/4296474/obama-tax-amount/?xid=homepage) released Friday. The [charities](https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/Blog/Obamas%202015%20Taxes.pdf) supported by the first couple include a diverse set of groups from Sidwell Friends School, where the couple’s children attend high school, to Fisher House, which provides homes for veterans. Here’s a complete list: Fisher House $9,066 Beau Biden Foundation $5,000 Sidwell Friends School $5,000 American Red Cross $2,000 CARE $2,000 International Rescue Committee $2,000 Sandy Hook Promise Foundation $2,000 Aids United $1,500 Calvary Women’s Services $1,500 Central Illinois Food Bank $1,500 Christopher House $1,500 Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy $1,500 Habitat for Humanity $1,500 Illinois Head Start Association $1,500 Illinois Reading Council $1,500 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society $1,500 National Coalition for Homeless Veterans $1,500 National Congress of Black Women $1,500 National MS Society $1,500 National Ovarian Cancer Coalition $1,500 Rochelle Lee Fund / Boundless Readers $1,500 St. John’s Church $1,500 St. Jude’s $1,500 St. Leo’s Campus for Veterans $1,500 The Harmony Project $1,500 United Negro College Fund $1,500 Boys & Girls Club D.C. $1,000 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation $1,500 Life Pieces to Masterpieces $1,000 Midtown Education Foundation $1,000 Miriam’s Kitchen $1,000 Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit $1,000 Mujeres Latinas en Accion $1,000 University of Hawaii Foundation $1,000 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4296583/obama-tax-returns-charity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4296583/obama-tax-returns-charity/"},"headline":"Here Are All the Charities the Obamas Gave to in 2015","datePublished":"2016-04-15T22:05:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:48:12.636Z","description":"The first couple donated more than $64,000","url":"https://time.com/4296583/obama-tax-returns-charity/","keywords":["White House"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4296583/obama-tax-returns-charity/","name":"Here Are All the Charities the Obamas Gave to in 2015"}}]}] ```