Charity giving has many benefits. These include the obvious, stated benefit of the Charity's purpose, as well as personal benefits. A more familiar personal benefit may be fulfilling a belief in a cause. This may include helping someone physically, financially, or emotionally. There are also additional personal benefits, including enhanced stability both emotional and mental. Giving to charity makes you a healthier person.
Beyond these intellectually credible benefits, charity has a mystical quality that is more than the sum of its parts. This can be appreciated when brightened by the light and life of the soul. To illustrate, people regularly give charity in someone's honor, and even more - they give charity to a cause so that someone they know should merit help in what they need. When "A" gives charity to "B" that "C" should be helped, is in the realm of the mystical. Additionally, this benefit accrues to the giver as well - even (or perhaps all the more so) when the only focus is to help the next person.
The reason being, that the energy we usually put into each good deed we do is limited. Whether it's taking out the garbage, telling someone how nice they look, studying hard, or praying, the amount of energy we invest in it, while possibly great, is not endless.
Charity, on the other hand, enjoys great merit because it embodies the giver's total effort. It takes everything you've got, physical and mental, to earn the money you're giving to charity. Any part of money earned which is then given to charity, contains all that energy. Moreover, even a small amount of charity can save a person's life if the poor person was about to expire G-d forbid, or it can sustain his life for a certain amount of time. This is why Charity (Tzedaka) actually adds life to the giver. This is because G-d rewards measure for measure. Just like you added life to the poor person, G-d adds to your life.
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