The bar chart illustrates the amount of the donated money to 6 various charity groups by a company in 3 consecutive years from 2012 to 2014.
Overall, all types of donations experienced a growth of varying degrees with the exception of the money given for environment during the period. In addition, a significant proportion of money was dedicated to social welfare.
Looking at relatively bigger numbers first, social welfare attracted far more money thain other categories, accounting for about $23mln in 2012. This figure saw a substantial decrease to $18mln in the next year, after which it rose again to reach about 20mln, topping the group in the last year. Almost the same amount of money was dedicated to education and environment in 2012 ($8 mln). However, a slight decrease was observed in the figures for the 2 categories in the next year, making up $6 and 5mln respectively. Then, the amount of money for both increased significantly to a respective figures of $ 6 and 5.5 mln. As for health, company donated about $6mln in 2012 and this figure rose gradually to reach around $10 mln in the final year.
Wildlife and arts showed lower amount of donation. about 3mln was donated for wildlife and $2.5 mln for arts. while the figure for the former experienced a steady rise to 5mln, the figure for the latter remained almost unchanged in the next year, then increasing substantially to $4mln in the end.
