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Agree with everything everyone has said :-)  Even maine's comment about the rather bizarre nature of the gifting.  It seems bizarre to me only because it's so unusual and is not an isolated incident.  But bizarre is good

And, really, more conventional types of charitable giving - or charitable gifts to municipally-run organizations (like homeless shelters, city/county food banks, etc.) - tend to require a paper trail and concomitant loss of anonymity.  Or so it seems to me, anyway.  Although I will say that some of these layaway bills run into real money:  One angel's gift highlighted on one of my local news stations was reportedly to the tune of $700 - for one customer alone (a grandmother who'd purchased basic clothing items, school supplies, and toys for her grandchildren; don't know whether the grandmother is sole caregiver, and don't know whether the angel knew or knew of the grandmother).