Rowling has donated the proceeds from the sale of her Potter spin-off, The Tales of Beedle the Bard ā approximately $30 million ā to Lumos, a charity she established in 2005 to help children in Central and Eastern Europe who are poor, disabled, or from an ethnic minority. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Rowling offered to personally match up to Ā£1Ā million in donations to Lumos for Ukraine.
JK Rowling secretly donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to save women lawyers as the Taliban swept back to power. Some 500 people were evacuated, all of whom, with their children and husbands, were on Taliban kill lists.
She donated $33 million to set up a world-leading research and treatment centre for multiple sclerosis in Scotland.
In 2022, she co-founded Beiraās Place, a sexual violence support service for women in Edinburgh.
Rowling established the Volant Charitable Trust in 2000 to address social deprivation in at-risk women, children and youth.
To support COVID-19 relief, she donated six-figure sums to both Khalsa Aid and the British Asian Trust from royalties for The Ickabog.
Profits from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, both published in 2001, went to Comic Relief.
Rowling and 12 other writers composed short pieces in 2008 to be sold to benefit Dyslexia Action and English PEN.
When the revelation that Rowling wrote The Cuckoo's Calling led to an increase in sales, she donated the royalties to ABF The Soldiers' Charity (formerly the Army Benevolent Fund).
I seriously doubt she'll die alone, nor that the people she saved will forget about her, nor that her cultural heritage will ever disappear, nor that people won't remember her quite fondly despite her occasional mistakes and despite your whining about men not being able to use the women's restroom which is, apparently, the most important civil right issue of our century.
