Any choice a person makes is driven by their motivations and goals, guided by some perceived benefit and driven by satisfaction. It's nigh unto a tautology: without motivation, nothing moves. It may not always be direct, clear, or even articulable benefit that's the motivator, but everything on down to the most selfless altruism is guided by satisfaction. The altruist gets the instinctually-driven satisfaction on the back of how common and outward good typically diffuses out to help the personal good, for instance. Your goals may be a bit more open-ended and your criteria for satisfaction looser, but I'd wager you've got standards and expectations all the same. If you had no goals to what you were doing with your money, you'd do as well burning it, literally, and be as apt to do so. Without satisfaction, any goal would be equal to any other for motivation. To illustrate with extremes: I'd wager that you wouldn't "charitably" give someone money for the express purpose that they emotionlessly toss it down the nearest storm drain and wander off back to their seven-figure life. I expect you've at least got the goal of bettering someone's situation, and probably specifically someone who couldn't do so themselves. The fact that you've got goals, that some end is superior to some other, means you're working toward some sort of satisfaction. Your criteria for satisfaction might only be that someone has a bit of pleasure. You might be just as satisfied if that pleasure is momentary, fleeting, perhaps even unconstructive or ultimately destructive. Other people have different thresholds of satisfaction. They might be looking to get a more substantial or long-term effect for their expenditure. They might be visionaries or idealogues with a more specific outcome they want to create with their charity. You can certainly argue that one motivation is better than another, that a looser motivation is better than a more strict or complex one, but not by claiming that one is driven by benefit and satisfaction while the other isn't. That's not true.