Yosef Karo

“ And even if it is not his child or parent, but a relative, he should give to them before others. The poor of his house come before the poor of his city, and those of his city before those of another city. ”

“ One who gives to his sons and his grown daughters, whom he is not obligated to feed, in order to teach the boys torah and the girls the proper path, and one who gives gifts to his needy parents, this counts as tzedakah. ”

“ Baruch wrote that we do not listen to Reuven, for what we said “your city’s poor come first” means not to send to another city, but the beggars who come to the city, we do not say “your own come first;” rather, give the poor of the town less, and give the beggar who came according to what you can... R. Saadya wrote that a person must sustain himself before anybody else, and does not have to give until he can sustain himself, as it says, “that your brother may live with you”—your life takes priority over your brother’s... ”