Somerville Couple Gives Half Their Salary to Charity

One Somerville couple is drawing up attention for all the right reasons after donating half of their combined salary to charity last year.

Jeff Kaufman and Julia Wise, of Somerville, earned about $256,000 last year. They donated exactly half of it to charity. The couple is married, has a daughter and is expecting a second child. So why are they such generous folks? Kaufman and Wise are just looking to assist those who are less fortunate in any way possible.

“We have more than what we need and there are a lot of people who don’t,” Kaufman told WBZ-TV. “We like to share what we can.”

The couple says they hope to again donate another $100,000 this year. They use an organization called Give Well, which informs users where their money will do the most good.

According to WBZ-TV, the couple has donated a great deal of money to organizations focused on promoting world health.

“It gives us satisfaction to know that we’re doing something more important with our money than buying a big-screen TV,” Wise told WBZ-TV.