I just barely made the 31 December deadline for tax-deductible donations in FY06. As I did last year, I’m publishing the list of lucky winners, with contribution amounts normalized relative to the largest contribution.

A while back I posted my list of potential charitable donations for FY 05. I’ve not finished my selections yet (I’ve still got three days after all!) but I’m in the process of making them now. Noon on 31-December is actually early as these things go for me.

I’ll list the lucky winners, and their normalized contributions. The normalized contribution value is the gift amount, divided by the largest single give amount given this year. Thus, a contribution of 1.0 is the largest single contribution I made; 0.5 is half that, 0.25 one quarter, and so on. This value serves as a reasonable indication of the extent to which I value the objectives of the organization and my level of confidence in the organization’s ability to efficiently further those objectives.

The final list: