Back in 2020 when everyone has suddenly lost their income, I decided to donate to a food bank at a neighborhood church. This was a difficult decision for me because I don't support the church generally, but at the time, that is where all the hungry people were going to seek food aid (literal lines wrapped around the block!), and the church was better poised than anyone else to translate that money into real help for people in my neighborhood. My only regret is that the church did not qualify for a charitable gift match from my employer (only 501.3c non profits) which would have doubled the monetary value of my donation.

Said another way, I'm an atheist but I don't treat my atheism so religiously to get in the way of helping people.