On June 14, the Giving USA Foundation released Giving USA 2016, its annual yearbook on giving for the year 2015. Last year at this time, Alexander Haas was pleased to report that giving had reached its highest level ever according to the Giving USA Annual Report on Philanthropy. Today, Alexander Haas is pleased to report that a new peak in contributions has been recorded at $373.25-billion. For the first time in a decade, we saw a combined two-year, double-digit growth rate of 10.1 percent for 2014 and 2015, adjusted for inflation.