If you consider any donation to a non-profit as charity, then sure. The article you linked uses a very loose definition of charity: any discretionary income received by non-profit entities. This covers pretty much all donations given to religious institutions (which covers 32%, by far the largest slice of the pie) and a huge amount of money given to educational institutions (which came in second place with 14%). There's very little charitable about the vast majority of modern churches and educational institutions (specifically private colleges and grade schools).

I view charity as giving money to an organization from which you receive no benefit. This pretty much wipes out the majority of US "charity."