The LDS Church's 2025 Caring Report documents $1.58 billion spent on humanitarian aid during the year, across 196 countries and 3,836 projects. That equates to approximately $4 million per day directed to people in need.
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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