2026 values, edition 2026.1

Donation value calculator: what is my donation worth?

The value of donated items for taxes, item by item, in Like new, Good, or Fair condition. 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. Want every item at once? Browse the whole chart instead.

Items covered: 1,172
Value sources: 20
Valuation edition: 2026.1

What did you donate?

Quick values for the most-donated items

All three tiers and the source, for the items people ask about most. Tap Look up to open the full answer above.

Clothing
Item	Fair	Good	Like new	Source	Look up
Pair of jeans	$4 to $10	$10 to $16	$16 to $21	Goodwill Industries International	Look up
Winter coat	$7 to $19	$19 to $30	$30 to $40	Goodwill Industries International	Look up
T-shirt	$1 to $2.75	$2.75 to $4.50	$4.50 to $6	Goodwill Industries International	Look up
Sweater	$4 to $8	$8 to $12	$12 to $15	Goodwill Industries International	Look up
Dress	$4 to $10	$10 to $15	$15 to $20	Goodwill Industries International	Look up
Men's suit	$10 to $28	$28 to $46	$46 to $60	Catholic Charities Maine	Look up
Pair of shoes	$3 to $11	$11 to $19	$19 to $26	Goodwill Industries International	Look up
Handbag	$2 to $4.75	$4.75 to $8	$8 to $10	Goodwill Industries International	Look up

Children's clothing
Item	Fair	Good	Like new	Source	Look up
Pair of children's jeans	$2 to $4.75	$4.75 to $8	$8 to $10	The Salvation Army	Look up
Children's winter coat	$3 to $7	$7 to $11	$11 to $15	The Salvation Army	Look up
Pair of children's shoes	$3 to $5	$5 to $7	$7 to $9	The Salvation Army	Look up
Baby clothes	$1 to $2.75	$2.75 to $4.50	$4.50 to $6	Goodwill Industries International	Look up

Furniture
Item	Fair	Good	Like new	Source	Look up
Sofa	$36 to $95	$95 to $155	$155 to $205	The Salvation Army	Look up
Mattress	$25 to $70	$70 to $115	$115 to $150	Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity ReStore	Look up
Dresser	$20 to $34	$34 to $48	$48 to $60	Goodwill Industries International	Look up
Dining table	$20 to $65	$65 to $110	$110 to $150	Catholic Charities Maine	Look up
Desk	$26 to $38	$38 to $50	$50 to $60	The Salvation Army	Look up
Bed	$50 to $95	$95 to $140	$140 to $175	The Salvation Army	Look up
Chair	$10 to $33	$33 to $55	$55 to $75	The Salvation Army	Look up

Sporting goods
Item	Fair	Good	Like new	Source	Look up
Bicycle	$5 to $28	$28 to $50	$50 to $70	The Salvation Army	Look up

Appliances
Item	Fair	Good	Like new	Source	Look up
Microwave	$10 to $24	$24 to $38	$38 to $50	The Salvation Army	Look up
Vacuum cleaner	$10 to $21	$21 to $31	$31 to $40	The Salvation Army	Look up
Washer and dryer	$41 to $80	$80 to $120	$120 to $155	The Salvation Army	Look up
Refrigerator	$80 to $140	$140 to $205	$205 to $260	The Salvation Army	Look up

Electronics
Item	Fair	Good	Like new	Source	Look up
Television	$60 to $145	$145 to $230	$230 to $300	The Salvation Army	Look up
Laptop computer	$25 to $37	$37 to $50	$50 to $60	Goodwill Northern New England	Look up
Cell phone	$25 to $50	$50 to $80	$80 to $100	The Salvation Army	Look up

Kitchen and housewares
Item	Fair	Good	Like new	Source	Look up
Dishes	$0.50 to $1.50	$1.50 to $2.25	$2.25 to $3	The Salvation Army	Look up
Pots and pans	$1 to $1.75	$1.75 to $2.50	$2.50 to $3	The Salvation Army	Look up
Bath towels	$0.50 to $1.75	$1.75 to $3	$3 to $4	The Salvation Army	Look up
Blanket	$3 to $7	$7 to $11	$11 to $15	The Salvation Army	Look up
Curtains	$2 to $3.75	$3.75 to $6	$6 to $7	The Salvation Army	Look up
Suitcase	$5 to $9	$9 to $13	$13 to $16	The Salvation Army	Look up

Books and media
Item	Fair	Good	Like new	Source	Look up
Books	$1 to $1.75	$1.75 to $2.50	$2.50 to $3	The Salvation Army	Look up
DVDs and CDs	$2 to $3	$3 to $4	$4 to $5	The Salvation Army	Look up

Toys and games
Item	Fair	Good	Like new	Source	Look up
Stuffed animals	$0.50 to $0.75	$0.75	$0.75 to $1	The Salvation Army	Look up
Board games	$1 to $1.75	$1.75 to $2.50	$2.50 to $3	The Salvation Army	Look up
Video games	$3	$3	$3	Goodwill Industries International	Look up

Baby gear
Item	Fair	Good	Like new	Source	Look up
Stroller	$5 to $38	$38 to $70	$70 to $100	The Salvation Army	Look up
Crib	$26 to $55	$55 to $80	$80 to $105	The Salvation Army	Look up

Method

How to value a donated item for taxes in 4 steps

Identify the item as plainly as you can: sofa, not furniture.
Pick the condition tier honestly. Most donations are Good; it must be in good used condition or better to count.
Take a value inside the published range for that tier.
Keep evidence: a photo, the range's source, and the charity's receipt.

Worked example: a sofa in Good condition is $95 to $155 and a winter coat $19 to $30, so the pair is $114 to $185. Keep giving through the year and once your noncash total passes $500 you generally file Form 8283.

The IRS and value lists

Does the IRS publish a donation value list?

No. The IRS sets the standard and leaves the prices to the market. Publication 561 says fair market value is “the price that property would sell for on the open market,” agreed between a willing buyer and a willing seller. The “IRS donation value guides” people search for are tables that charities publish. Donating stock instead? Publicly traded stock is generally valued at the average of the high and low price on the date of the gift, per Publication 561.

	Salvation Army list	Goodwill NNE list	This lookup
Items covered	About 142	47	1,172
Condition tiers	No	Notes only	Like new, Good, Fair
Source shown per value	No	No	Yes
Last updated	Not stated	Not stated	2026-08-05

More on each: Goodwill donation values, Salvation Army donation values. Noncash gifts only help if you itemize: should I itemize? The new non-itemizer deduction is for cash gifts, see the guide for new non-itemizers.

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 itemized donation 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.

Does the IRS publish a donation value guide?

No. The IRS publishes the standard, not the prices. Publication 561 defines fair market value as the price a willing buyer and a willing seller would agree on, and the "IRS guides" people find online are charity value tables. That is why every value here names the guide it came from.

How do I value something that is not on any list?

Find what the same item sells for second-hand, in that condition. The rough check on this page uses the 30%-of-original-price rule of thumb some store guides publish, lowered for age, and labels the result as your estimate. It is not an IRS rule, so keep a note of the comparable sales you used.

Can I deduct what I originally paid?

Generally not. For used clothing and household goods the deduction is fair market value at the time of the gift, which is usually a small fraction of the price paid. See fair market value.

Do I need a receipt for a single item?

For a gift of $250 or more you generally need a written acknowledgment from the charity. Below that, a reliable record of the charity, date and item generally suffices. A photo before drop-off helps either way.

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.

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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-05.
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 2026-08-05.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-04.
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 2026-08-05.

The rules behind the thresholds

Publication 561, Determining the Value of Donated PropertyIRS, IRS publication
Publication 526, Charitable ContributionsIRS, IRS publication
Instructions for Form 8283IRS, IRS form

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Evidence attached

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