A recent ACLU campaign beefed up its major gifts and planned giving

The northern California affiliate, for example, raised  $25 million. Washington State followed with $10 million, and San Diego came in with $4 million. The numbers are even more impressive when you consider that much of the money raised by the large affiliates was meant to be distributed to smaller ones that existed in states where the need for ACLU representation far outweighed the support they were receiving from local donors.