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Query not summing values by year

Why isn't this SQL in query designer summing the donations by family by year?

SELECT [Family Information].ID, Donations.[Date of Donation], Sum(Donations.[Donation Amount]) AS [SumOfDonation Amount]
FROM [Family Information] RIGHT JOIN Donations ON [Family Information].ID = Donations.[Family Name]
GROUP BY [Family Information].ID, Donations.[Date of Donation]
ORDER BY [Family Information].ID, Donations.[Date of Donation];

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Shaun Kline

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Bernard Savonet

Main source of problem: you are grouping not by year but by date (ie with resolution of teh second or less)

Suggested solution:
Not sure how to extract year from date in your own SQL dialect. With the examples at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174395.aspx , your query could be something like

SELECT [Family Information].ID, Donations.[Date of Donation], 
DATENAME(year,  Donations.[Date of Donation]) AS DonYear,
Sum(Donations.[Donation Amount]) AS [SumOfDonation Amount]
FROM [Family Information] RIGHT JOIN Donations ON [Family Information].ID = Donations.[Family Name]
GROUP BY [Family Information].ID, DATENAME(year,  Donations.[Date of Donation])
ORDER BY [Family Information].ID, DATENAME(year,  Donations.[Date of Donation]) , Donations.[Date of Donation];

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