Herbert Hoover and JFK donated their Presidential salary; President Trump topped than as he donated $100,000 every quarter ($77,000 odd dollars from his salary plus his additional contribution). Donations of his $1.6M salary included:
- Department of Interior's National Park Service
- Department of Education to host a free, two-week space camp for 30 low-income, middle school girls
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for "the planning and design of a large-scale public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction."
- Department of Transportation
- Veteran's Administration
- SBA for Veteran Entrepreneurs
- National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- Department of Homeland Security
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to "the ongoing fight against the opioid crisis"
- HHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to "confront, contain, and combat #Coronavirus[.]"
- HHS to "develop new therapies for treating and preventing COVID-19 so that we can safely reopen
- NPS in July 2020 to help pay for repairs on national monuments.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/02/27/president-donald-trump-probably-donated-his-entire-16m-salary-back-to-the-us-government--here-are-the-details/