To minimize a sensitometry change at a time of preservation and to keep coloring matter efficiency at a time of printing.

In a coloring matter donating element for thermal coloring matter transfer formed by forming a coloring matter layer wherein image coloring matter is contained in a polymeric binder on the surface of a support, the coloring matter layer further contains a stabilizer containing polycarbonate polyol of an origomer with a mol.wt. of 1000-10000.