There is apparently a well known Jewish concept called tzedakah, which roughly translates as "charity". The 12th Century Jewish philosopher Maimonides, formalised tzedakah into 8 levels, each subsequent level being a bit less righteous than the  one before it. Taken in a secular sense, the levels are as follows:

1. Giving a poor person work so he will not have to depend on charity
2. Giving charity anonymously to an unknown recipient
3. Giving charity anonymously to a known recipient
4. Giving charity  publicly to an unknown recipient
5. Giving charity before being asked
6. Giving adequately after being asked
7. Giving willingly, but inadequately
8. Giving unwillingly

But, personally, I don't care, and I don't suppose the recipient of your generosity will care very much either.......as long as you're giving.

Shout your generosity from the rooftops if you like. Or have your name put in the Hall of Fame for all to see.

Or do it on Oprah Winfrey, like Simon Cowell, who recently paid off the mortgage for a family whose daughter has a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Afterwards, he said he had only just realised that how GOOD it was to give. "I didn't realise that. It's taken me 48 years". 

I'm tempted to suggest there are a good few more celebrities who could well do to learn this lesson, but who knows.....perhaps they are doing it anonymously, and we just don't know about it.

When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire