Donation Value Guide 2026
What donated clothing, furniture, electronics, and household goods are generally worth, by condition, from published thrift-store guides with sources attached. Three condition tiers, no invented numbers, and an honest blank wherever nobody publishes a price.
- Items covered
- 1,172
- With published ranges
- 784
- Value sources cited
- 20
- Condition tiers
- 3
Donation values by category
Each page shows every item we cover in that category, the value band for each of the three condition tiers, and the published guide the band came from.
Clothing
What donated clothing is generally worth, by condition, from published thrift-store valuation guides. Women's, men's, and designer apparel, with sources cited.
- Items covered
- 243(150 priced)
- Published range
- $0.50 to $415
Children's clothing
Donation values for girls', boys', toddlers', and infants' clothing, by condition tier, from published thrift-store guides with sources cited on every range.
- Items covered
- 206(183 priced)
- Published range
- $0.50 to $26
Furniture
What donated furniture is generally worth by condition: sofas, beds, dressers, and tables, from published valuation guides with sources cited on every range.
- Items covered
- 68(54 priced)
- Published range
- $2 to $1,035
Appliances
Donation values for kitchen and household appliances, from microwaves and vacuums to washers, dryers, and refrigerators, by condition, with sources cited.
- Items covered
- 111(98 priced)
- Published range
- $3 to $425
Electronics
What donated electronics are generally worth: televisions, computers, phones, cameras, and consoles, by condition, with the source shown on every range.
- Items covered
- 66(27 priced)
- Published range
- $0.25 to $300
Kitchen and housewares
Donation values for kitchenware, dishes, cookware, linens, decor, and luggage, by condition tier, from published valuation guides with sources cited.
- Items covered
- 132(81 priced)
- Published range
- $0.25 to $250
Books and media
What donated books, DVDs, CDs, and records are generally worth by condition, from published thrift-store valuation guides, with sources cited on every range.
- Items covered
- 20(13 priced)
- Published range
- $0.50 to $5
Toys and games
Donation values for toys, board games, puzzles, and video games by condition, from published thrift-store valuation guides, with every range showing its source.
- Items covered
- 88(69 priced)
- Published range
- $0.50 to $50
Baby gear
Donation values for strollers, high chairs, nursery furniture, and carriers, with published ranges where they exist and valuation guidance where they do not.
- Items covered
- 49(11 priced)
- Published range
- $4 to $105
Sporting goods
Donation values for sports equipment, exercise machines, bikes, and camping gear, by condition, from published valuation guides with sources on every range.
- Items covered
- 100(56 priced)
- Published range
- $1 to $70
Tools and garden
Donation values for hand tools, power tools, mowers, and garden equipment by condition, from published thrift-store valuation guides, with sources cited.
- Items covered
- 53(35 priced)
- Published range
- $1 to $325
Jewelry
How donated jewelry and watches are valued: published ranges for costume pieces, and appraisal guidance for fine jewelry, with primary sources cited.
- Items covered
- 19(7 priced)
- Published range
- $1 to $25
Pet supplies
How to value donated pet supplies: crates, carriers, beds, tanks, and everyday gear, with valuation guidance where no published guide sets a range.
- Items covered
- 17(0 priced)
- Published range
- You value these yourself
Three tiers, and why there is no fourth
A published range already spans good used condition up to like new. We subdivide the range the publishers drew rather than inventing our own condition scale.
- 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.
How a number gets into this guide
Five steps, applied the same way to every item. The point of writing them down is that you can check our arithmetic against the sources listed at the bottom of every page.
- 1
Start from what a reseller published
Every figure begins as a range printed by an organization that actually resells donated goods, or by a published valuation guide. Nothing starts from an estimate, and nothing is taken from another product's valuation database.
- 2
Consolidate across sources
Where several guides price the same item, the band is consolidated across them rather than cherry-picked from the most generous one. Corroborating sheets sanity-check a band; they never move it on their own.
- 3
Split the range into three condition tiers
A published low-to-high range already spans good used condition up to like new, which is what the publishers say it means. We subdivide that span at fixed fractions rather than inventing a condition axis, so Fair, Good, and Like new sit contiguously inside the published envelope.
- 4
Round conservatively, then stop
Boundaries are rounded once, by a fixed rule, so the same inputs always produce the same output. No tier reaches above the highest published figure or below the lowest. Extrapolating past what a publisher printed is not allowed in either direction.
- 5
Show the source next to the number
Every band carries the guide it came from, and a band carried from a guide's general class row is marked as such rather than passed off as an item-specific figure. If nothing publishes a price for an item, it ships with no number and guidance instead.
These numbers may be lower than you remember
The tool most people are comparing against priced donations from a licensed feed of closed online-auction sales. We cannot license that feed, and approximating it would mean inventing numbers.
What you get instead is thrift-resale pricing published by the organizations that actually resell donated goods, consolidated conservatively and never extrapolated past what a publisher printed. Some items will value lower here than they did in the tool that shut down.
We are not going to close that gap by inflating ranges, because the gap is the product. Every figure carries a citation you can open and read, which is a paper trail the incumbent never offered. Where you genuinely know better than the guide, the app lets you override a value, and flags the override in every export so the record stays honest.
When no guide prices an item
Roughly a third of the items in this guide carry no suggested value. That is a sourcing rule showing its work, not a gap we forgot to fill.
Designer apparel, fine jewelry, exercise machines, most consumer electronics, pet supplies, and much baby gear are simply not priced by thrift valuation guides. Rather than stretch an unrelated range to cover them, those items appear with guidance: what the IRS generally expects as evidence for that class of item, and what to record before it leaves your house.
In practice that means comparable sales. What has the same item, in the same condition, actually sold for recently, kept alongside a photo and the listing you relied on. Some published guides suggest roughly 30% of an item’s original price as a starting point for items not on their lists; that is the guides’ own heuristic, not an IRS rule, and it is no substitute for evidence when the amount is meaningful.
Questions about donation values
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Why are these values lower than I remember?
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What if my item is not listed?
Do these values guarantee my deduction?
When is the guide updated?
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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 these values have to satisfy
- Publication 561, Determining the Value of Donated PropertyIRS, IRS publication
- Publication 526, Charitable ContributionsIRS, IRS publication
- Form 8283, Noncash Charitable ContributionsIRS, IRS form
- Instructions for Form 8283IRS, IRS form
Every number, with its receipt attached.
DeductiBee puts this guide on your iPhone, adds photo evidence to each item, and exports a Form 8283 worksheet when you file.
The same dataset, offline
The app carries this edition on the device, so values work with no connection and no account.
Overrides stay visible
Change a suggested value where you know better, and every export flags it as your figure rather than ours.
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