A year of giving, organized in one file — with the math done for you
Most of us give more than we think and remember less of it than we’d like — a gift here, a collection there, a box of goods dropped off on a Saturday. Spread across a whole year and a dozen places, it’s almost impossible to reconstruct when you need the total. The Charitable-Giving & Zakat/Tithing Records Workbook gives your giving one home, and does the arithmetic for you.
Log each gift as you make it — date, recipient, category, cash or non-cash, amount — and the workbook totals your giving, the tax-deductible share, and the cash-versus-non-cash split automatically. Come tax time, the Year-End Summary already holds your numbers and a breakdown by category. And if you calculate zakat or give a tithe, two built-in worksheets do the math on figures you enter, at a threshold and rate you set.
It works in Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice — delivered as a workbook plus a one-click “Make a copy” Google Sheets link, so there’s no import to fuss with.
What makes it worth more than a blank spreadsheet
It’s a designed, connected system — not an empty grid you build from scratch. The eight tabs are wired together, so you enter a number once and it flows where it’s needed:
- Recipients feeds the Giving Log’s dropdown, so each gift is one click to record.
- The Giving Log totals your giving, the deductible share, and the cash-versus-non-cash split as you go.
- Non-Cash Donations values donated goods and carries the total into the log as one line, so nothing double-counts.
- The Year-End Summary reads your whole log and shows the totals and a by-category breakdown — always current, nothing to fill in.
- The Zakat and Tithe worksheets calculate on your own figures — and pull what you’ve already given from the log, so a zakat or tithe gift logged once shows up everywhere automatically.
Built for observant givers — and anyone who itemizes
Whether you’re calculating zakat against your own nisab, giving a tithe on the basis your conscience and community teach, or simply keeping clean records so your tax-deductible giving is easy to substantiate, the workbook serves you — and only the parts you use. The zakat and tithe worksheets are optional; skip them and it’s a straightforward giving tracker with year-end totals.
It ships with four guide PDFs, including a plain-terms Zakat & Tithe Reference that explains the calculations respectfully — background, not a ruling — and a Giving & Tax-Time Records guide on what to keep for your records.
Own it, don’t rent it
Your giving can say a great deal about your beliefs, your causes, and your finances. In this file it’s yours — it doesn’t live on a company’s server, can’t be sold or mined, and won’t vanish if a subscription giving app shuts down or a payment lapses. You decide where it’s stored and who ever sees it. It sits between a blank spreadsheet you’d have to build from scratch and a rented app holding your most personal records on someone else’s computer.
Prefer to try before you buy? A free Zakat / Tithe Calculator — a one-figure web tool — is a good first step.
A records-and-calculation tool — not tax, financial, or religious advice
This workbook organizes your own giving and runs arithmetic on the figures you enter, with thresholds and rates you set. It is not tax, financial, or religious advice, and not a substitute for a tax professional or a religious authority. Whether a gift is deductible, how nisab is measured, and whether to tithe on gross or net income are decisions for you and the professionals and teachers you trust. The example data is clearly fictional; overwrite it with your own.
