Donor-advised funds, or DAFs, are like a charitable investment account that allows donors to contribute cash, securities, or other assets to the DAF and claim an immediate tax deduction without having ...

Wealthy Americans use DAFs to give back and save on taxes, but the popular strategy comes with strings attached.

Alan Cantor’s article (“A New Sleight-of-Hand for Skirting Foundation Giving Rules,” Opinion. May 31) raised concerns about private foundations funding donor-advised funds held by community ...

Donors get a tax deduction for donor-advised fund contributions, but billions of payouts each year are simply recycled to other DAF providers ...

Donor advised funds are endowment-like funds that are operated by public charities. When a donor makes a gift to a donor advised fund, a separate fund is created for the donor by the public charity ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) One distinguishing feature about DAF donors is that when they dispatch money from ...

The dispute highlights how control over assets in increasingly popular DAFs can become contested — and what that could mean for advisors and their clients.

Donors using Harvard’s donor-advised fund directed nearly $9 million to three organizations focused on Jewish life and combating antisemitism in fiscal year 2024, according to the University’s most ...

Everyone’s charitable giving holds significant personal meaning and giving is best accomplished with a thoughtful, knowledgeable plan. If your New Year’s resolutions will include becoming more ...

Vanguard Charitable recently said that its donor-advised fund clients hit a giving record, much of it in response to natural disasters. Donors directed their dollars to relief for the damage caused by ...

Kansas family’s $21 million charitable fund dispute with Christian nonprofit underscores tensions between donor expectations ...

How recent Federal tax law changes are reshaping charitable giving strategies—and what you should do before year-end ...