The LDS Church's 2025 Caring Report documents $1.58 billion spent on welfare and humanitarian aid during the year, across 196 countries and territories. That equates to approximately $4 million per day directed to people in need. The Church reported 3,514 humanitarian projects plus 569 additional emergency relief projects (4,083 total) and 7.4 million hours of volunteer work.
The figure has been growing consistently: $1 billion in 2022, $1.36 billion in 2023, $1.45 billion in 2024, and $1.58 billion in 2025.
The Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, and Philanthropy News Digest all independently confirmed the reported figures.
Important context: the $1.58 billion figure includes both external humanitarian aid and internal member welfare programs (fast offering assistance, Deseret Industries, self-reliance courses, and volunteer hours valued at dollar rates). It is not exclusively external aid to non-members. Critics have noted this distinction.
For a church of approximately 17 million members, the figure represents roughly $93 per member per year in caring expenditures. The LDS Church does not file a public Form 990, so independent auditing of these figures is limited compared to secular nonprofits.
Regardless of methodology debates, the scale of operations — 196 countries, thousands of projects, billions of dollars, and growing annually — represents one of the largest faith-based humanitarian footprints in the world.
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