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Donation value lookup, 2026 values

One item, one condition, one answer. Pick what you gave and you get the suggested fair market value, the supported range behind it, what the condition tier means, and the published guide the figure came from. It runs entirely in your browser.

Items covered
1,172
Value sources
20
Valuation edition
2026.1

Search 1,172 donatable goods, or pick a category to browse it. Nothing you type is uploaded.

Pick an item above and you get one answer: the suggested fair market value, the supported range behind it, what the condition tier means, and the published guide the figure came from. Gave a whole carload rather than one thing? The donation value calculator adds up a list.

Two tools, two questions

Which one do you need?

Same dataset, same values, different job. Pick by how much you gave, not by which link you found first.

One item: this page

You gave a couch, or a coat, and you want to know what it is worth. Search it, pick the condition, read the range. Nothing to build up, nothing to download, and the link is shareable.

A whole load: the calculator

You filled a car and need one documented total for the year, with a line per item and a CSV at the end. Open the donation value calculator.

Condition

The tier you pick is most of the answer

Condition moves a value more than almost anything else about an item, so it is the one judgement this tool asks you to make.

Like new
Unworn or barely used, with tags or as good as. The top of the published range.
Good
Used, complete, clean, and working, with no notable damage. The middle of the range.
Fair
Visible wear but still usable and saleable. The bottom of the range, and generally the lowest condition that can be claimed at all.

Each tier maps to a band inside the range the source guide published: Like new sits at the top of it, Good in the middle, Fair at the bottom. There is no tier below Fair on purpose. Household goods generally must be in good used condition or better to be deductible at all, so a tier for worn-out goods would be offering a number for something that generally cannot be claimed.

The answer arrives as a range with a suggested point inside it, never a bare number. The point is not the figure. The point is that you can show where the figure came from.

What it does not do

The honest limits of a lookup

A tool that overstates what it can do is worth less than one that says where it stops.

  • It does not tell you what you will save. Fair market value is not the deduction, and the deduction is not the tax saved. A deduction reduces taxable income, so the effect depends on your rate and on whether you itemize at all. That is a separate tool.
  • It does not know your item. The catalog values a category of thing, not the specific thing in your hallway. A designer coat and a supermarket coat are not the same donation, and where the catalog draws that line is visible in the item names.
  • It does not remember anything. There is no account and no server, so nothing you type is uploaded or stored. Copy the link if you want the answer to survive the tab.
Then what

Where to go from a single value

A value is the first step of three. These are the pages that carry the other two.

FAQ

Questions about donated item values

How much is a donated couch worth?
It depends on what kind of couch it is and what condition it was in, which is why the answer is a lookup rather than a sentence. Search for it above and you get the range published for that item, split across three condition tiers, with the guide the range came from. There is no single national figure for a couch, and any page that gives you one without asking what it is has made it up.
Which condition should I pick?
Like new means unworn or barely used, with tags or as good as. Good means used, complete, clean, and working, with no notable damage. Fair means visible wear but still usable and saleable. Household goods generally must be in good used condition or better to be deductible at all, which is why there is no fourth tier below Fair.
Is this the amount I can deduct?
Not by itself. This is fair market value, which is the starting point. What you can actually deduct depends on whether you itemize, on the organization being qualified, and on limits tied to your income. What it saves you in tax is a third question again, because a deduction reduces taxable income rather than tax. The tax savings calculator walks that chain.
Why show a range instead of one number?
Because fair market value is a range, and the tier bands the source guides publish are ranges too. The suggested figure sits inside the supported range, and the width of that range is what tells you how much room you have to defend a number. A bare figure looks more certain than the evidence behind it actually is.
Where do these values come from?
The same dataset the DeductiBee app carries: ranges published by organizations that resell donated goods, split into three condition tiers and cited on the line they support. This is edition 2026.1, built from 20 published value sources and refreshed annually. Values are derived from those published guides, never from any single competitor's data.
Can I share or bookmark a result?
Yes. Picking an item writes it into the address bar along with the condition, so copying the link gives someone else the same answer. The item identity is stable across dataset editions, so a link keeps working after the values are refreshed.
What if my item has no published value?
Some items carry no published range, because no guide in our source registry prices them. The tool says so rather than showing a number, and the category guide explains what evidence supports a figure you set yourself. Roughly a third of the catalog is in that position, which is a sourcing rule showing its work rather than a gap we forgot to fill.

Where these values come from

Every range on this page traces to one of these. Values are derived from the published ranges, never copied from another product’s valuation database, and never invented where no source covers an item.

  1. Donation Value Guide (The Salvation Army Thrift Stores | Donation Valuation Guide)

    The Salvation Army (Thrift Stores / Adult Rehabilitation Centers)

    Primary value source. A published range from this guide can set the low or high end of an item's band. Fetched and read .

  2. Valuation Guide for Goodwill Donors

    Goodwill Industries International (compiled list, republished by member affiliates)

    Primary value source. A published range from this guide can set the low or high end of an item's band. Fetched and read .

  3. Valuation Guide for Goodwill Donors (single average price variant)

    Goodwill Industries International (single-value variant; copy hosted by Goodwill Industries of East Texas)

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  4. Donation Value Guide - What is my Donation Worth?

    Goodwill Northern New England

    Primary value source. A published range from this guide can set the low or high end of an item's band. Fetched and read .

  5. Donation Value Guide (2023 edition)

    Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity ReStore

    Primary value source. A published range from this guide can set the low or high end of an item's band. Fetched and read .

  6. Donation Valuation Guide (2017/2019 PDF edition, superseded)

    Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity ReStore

    Primary value source. A published range from this guide can set the low or high end of an item's band. Fetched and read .

  7. Thrift Store Valuation Guide

    Catholic Charities Maine (Catholic Charities Thrift Store)

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  8. Valuation Guide for St. Vincent de Paul - Cincinnati Donors

    Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Cincinnati (St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Shops)

    Primary value source. A published range from this guide can set the low or high end of an item's band. Fetched and read .

  9. Estimated Donation Values

    Goodwill of Central & Northern Arizona

    Primary value source. A published range from this guide can set the low or high end of an item's band. Fetched and read .

  10. Donation Value Guide / Valuation Guide

    Goodwill Industries of Central Illinois (Peoria, IL)

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  11. Donation Value Guide

    Agrace (Agrace Thrift Stores; Wisconsin's largest nonprofit hospice, Madison/Janesville WI)

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  12. Fair Market Value Sheet (Revised 3/1/2023)

    Ohio Valley Goodwill Industries (Cincinnati, OH)

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  13. Estimated Valuation Guide & Receipt for Items Donated to the Kokomo Rescue Mission

    Kokomo Rescue Mission (Kokomo, Indiana; Federal I.D. No. 351104430)

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  14. Donation Value Guide

    Hope Village for Children (Hope Village Thrift Store, Meridian, Mississippi)

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  15. Donation Value Guide - What is my donation worth?

    Goodwill Greater Milwaukee & Chicago (Goodwill Retail Services, Inc., Tax ID# 39-2040239)

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  16. Valuation Guide for Goodwill Donors

    Goodwill of Western and Northern Connecticut

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  17. Valuation Guide

    Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  18. Donation Value Guide

    The Beacon House Association of San Pedro (Beacon House Thrift Shop, San Pedro, CA)

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  19. Valuation Guide for Charitable Contributions

    Small Business Taxes & Management (A/N Group, Inc.), ISSN 1089-1536

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

  20. Price List

    Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont (Charlotte NC; stores in NC and SC)

    Corroborating check. Used to sanity-check a band. Never moves a figure on its own. Fetched and read .

The rules behind the thresholds

  1. Publication 561, Determining the Value of Donated PropertyIRS, IRS publication
  2. Publication 526, Charitable ContributionsIRS, IRS publication
  3. Instructions for Form 8283IRS, IRS form
One item today, a year of them by April

The app remembers what the lookup cannot.

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Same numbers, offline

The valuation dataset ships inside the app, so it works with no connection and no account.

Evidence attached

A photo on the item and on the receipt, kept with the record it belongs to, on your device.

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