Has anyone ever donated a car to charity?

I'd like to know the same...i was thinking about researching on if they'd take my SUV, which is mint interior and exterior but had a bad waterpump leading to a head gasket failure... I never fixed it

Do charities take cars that need simple love?

You can always donate them to me

- Used Car Salesmen always look for the angles! -

I donated an Isuzu Rodeo a few years back (to a Parkinson's disease research foundation). Got all the info online, filled it out online, and they came and picked it up. Needed a few parts, and wasn't running at the time (but only needed about $1000 put into it to make it road-worthy, unfortunately that was more than it was worth).

Have you considered a local tech college?

I donated a car a few years ago - I had a Honda Civic with somewhere around 205,000 on it when it died.  I put in a new alternator which brought it back to life but it still had problems so I decided it was time to sell it & just get whatever i could for it.  About a week later someone broke into it and stole radio (which had stopped working anyway) by tearing out the whole dashboard so I figured I'd just donate it instead.

My first idea was to donate it to NPR, mainly because that was the only place I had heard of at the time that took cars.  It turned out though that they wouldn't take it if it had a broken window (really??) so after a little research I found a website that listed all the CO charities that would take a car and ended up donating to a charity that deals with ALS.  Left the title in the glove compartment and a day later it was gone.   Got a letter later on for tax purposes saying they got $1300 for it at auction which suprised me, but in a good way.

Depending how much time you want to go through, you might be able to do what I did.

I went to a local homeless shelter, and asked if they could accept a car if I donated it. They were not set up to legally do so, but when they got offers, they asked if it would be ok to line up someone they would recommend that could use it, and then I could just give it to them.

So I said sure. I had to go to the tag place and do a title transfer where I sold it to him for $1. The guy who got it, (and it was an ugly car, but in working condition with no issues) had been walking work from this shelter for a long time, and had a good work ethic. 2 weeks after he got the car, my wife saw him driving it, with a woman along. We thought maybe getting wheels helped him in more ways than one.

So there's something you could do - it takes more time, and probably no tax deduction, but it is quite rewarding.

you can always donate it to the Hamlet foundation that benefits Hamlet and other broke teenage students.

you can contact its president and CEO Hamlet, by PM'ing me. :P

(we also accept any other kind of donations).