Tsunami Donations: Money Raised and Spent.

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Author: Jensen, Brennen

Washington

Amount raised: $567.3-million

Amount spent: $166.8-million

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, medical services, shelter, and to vaccinate children and take other measures to prevent diseases. In addition, donations are paying for improvements in water and sanitation systems; for training to prepare people in tsunami-ravaged countries to deal with future disasters; and for boats, docks, and other items needed to restore the fishing industry.

Federal Way, Wash.

Amount raised: $246-million

Amount spent: $90-million

Where the money is going: To provide food and water and offer programs to help tsunami victims with hygiene; to provide cash payments to local residents hired to aid in cleanup work; to rebuild and reopen schools, clinics, and community centers; and for efforts to restore farming, fishing, and small-business activities. The charity says it also plans to build up to 4,000 new houses in Indonesia.

Baltimore

Amount raised: $159.6-million

Amount spent: $41-million

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical supplies; to rebuild homes; to provide fishing boats and equipment, as well as job trainiing, educational materials, and school uniforms.

New York

Amount raised: $137-million

Amount spent: Not available

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, temporary shelter, immunizations and medical care; to rebuild 500 schools in Indonesia; to train teachers and provide school supplies and textbooks; to provide aid for orphanages and foster-care programs.

Westport, Conn.

Amount raised: $132-million

Amount spent: $53-million

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical services and to help reunite families. The charity is also providing temporary, transitional, and permanent housing, with a goal of building at least 3,300 permanent houses in Indonesia by 2007; building new schools and community centers; and helping to restore farming, fishing, and small-business activities.

Atlanta

Amount raised: $56-million

Amount spent: $40-million

Where the money is going: To provide food and water; temporary and permanent housing, with plans to build as many 10,000 new houses. In addition, the donations are helping to pay local workers hired to remove debris and help with construction, as well as efforts to restore jobs.

Americus, Ga.

Amount raised: $50-million

Amount spent: $8.5-million

Where the money is going: To repair damaged housing and construct new homes; to create centers to train construction workers and to manufacture building supplies.

Stamford, Conn.

Amount raised: $45-million

Amount spent: $22.5-million

Where the money is going: To provide medical services, supplies, and equipment, including support for 37 health centers in Indonesia; for efforts to prevent malaria, and to finance water and sanitation projects.

Portland, Oregon

Amount raised: $33-million

Amount spent: $13-million

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, medical services, shelter, and school supplies; cash payments to local residents hired to aid in cleanup efforts. The charity is also working to restore farming, fishing, and small-business activities.

Boston

Amount raised: $30-million

Amount spent: Not available

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical supplies, as well as temporary shelters; to restore local water supplies, as well as farming, fishing, and small-business activities; to conduct advocacy work on behalf of "vulnerable" populations, such as widows, orphans, and members of ethnic minorities.

Boone, N.C.

Amount raised: $30-million

Amount spent: Not available

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical supplies, and make efforts to prevent malaria; to build up to 3,000 houses in Indonesia; and to provide fishing boats and equipment to tsunami victims.

Alexandria, Va.

Amount raised: $24-million

Amount spent: $11.5-million

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, medical supplies, and clothing; to construct up to 1,000 houses in Sri Lanka; and to make repairs to local roads, bridges, and other "infrastructure" destroyed by the tsunamis.

Baltimore

Amount raised: $23.4-million

Amount spent: $4.1-million

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, health services, and shelter; to construct permanent housing and schools; to restore farming, fishing, and small-business activities; to provide psychological services for traumatized children and adults.

New York

Amount raised: $18.5-million

Amount spent: $9.6-million

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and temporary shelters; to assist small businesses; and to buy school uniforms and build playgrounds.

New York

Amount raised: $15.3-million

Amount spent: $10.7-million

Where the money is going: To provide medical care and supplies; efforts to improve water and sanitation systems; to construct health centers and schools; to restore farmland; and to train teachers and health-care workers.

Santa Barbara, Calif.

Amount raised: $14.3-million

Amount spent: $9.5-million

Where the money is going: For grants to local medical groups; to build 34 health facilities; to buy 23 ambulances and mobile emergency medical units; to refurbish clinics, buy new medical equipment, and train mental-health workers.

Akron, Penn.

Amount raised: $13.9-million

Amount spent: $5.6-million

Where the money is going: For grants to local hospitals; prostheses for amputees; to construct permanent housing, with plans for 250 houses in Indonesia; to provide new and repaired fishing boats and equipment; to restore agricultural land, and to buy 4,500 farm animals.

Elkhart, Ind.

Amount raised: $11.4-million

Amount spent: $7.6-million

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical supplies, as well as temporary and permanent housing; to improve water and sanitation systems; to run agricultural and animal-husbandry workshops.

New York

Amount raised: $11.1-million

Amount spent: $2.4-million

Where the money is going: To provide food, shelter, and water supplies; to repair and build new housing; to provide tsunami victims with fishing boats, agricultural equipment, interest-free loans, job training, and free legal assistance.

New York

Amount raised: $8.2-million

Amount spent: $7.7-million

Where the money is going: To provide emergency medical care, mental-health services, counseling, and immunizations. In addition, donations are being used to rehabilitate and operate hospitals and health clinics.

Santa Monica, Calif.

Amount raised: $6-million

Amount spent: $2-million

Where the money is going: To provide emergency medical care and mental-health services in Indonesia and Sri Lanka; to repair hospitals and clinics; and to train health-care workers.

Phoenix, Ariz.

Amount raised: $4.4-million

Amount spent: $2.2-million

Where the money is going: To provide food and medical supplies; to pay local workers hired to remove debris and help with construction; to provide aid to small businesses; to restore agricultural lands and replace livestock.

Spring Lake, Mich.

Amount raised: $3.2-million

Amount spent: Not available

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, and medical supplies; to build a facility in Indonesia to repair medical equipment and train people to work in the facility.

Pittsburgh

Amount raised: $2.1-million

Amount spent: $1.1-million

Where the money is going: To provide food as well as building and medical supplies and ambulances; to construct schools and repair waters systems.

New York

Amount raised: $2-million

Amount spent: $350,000

Where the money is going: To provide medical supplies and fishing boats; and to help schools and students.

New York

Amount raised: $1.4-million

Amount spent: $1.3-million

Where the money is going: To provide food and water as well as water-purification systems, sanitation equipment, and farming and fishing equipment.

Los Angeles

Amount raised: $875,000

Amout spent: Not available.

Where the money is going: To provide food, water, medical care, and temporary shelters; to make loans to families and small businesses; to rebuild schools; and to improve water and sanitation systems.

PHOTO (COLOR): FISHERMEN IN SRI LANKA RECEIVED BOATS FROM CARE

PHOTO (COLOR): A MODEL FOR HOUSING THAT WORLD VISION PLANS TO BUILD IN INDONESIA

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Compiled by Brennen Jensen