December 2025| No. 506

Donating blood, making a donation or collaborating with NGOs are common forms of solidarity throughout the world. Even a gesture as simple as giving up one’s seat for an elderly person can be considered a selfless act of kindness towards others. However, there is a lack of evidence on how often and in what way we help others. In this new Dossier of the Monthly Report – a result of the collaboration between the ”la Caixa” Foundation, CaixaBank Research and Pompeu Fabra University – we provide a snapshot of Spanish solidarity, offering an overview of the forms that altruism takes and of the donations made by Spaniards: from profiling donors and the social causes to which they give, to the charitable response to the floods in Valencia.