Donor-advised funds offer an upfront tax break but mean losing control of your money.

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 ...

Today, Zelle® and Bank of America announce a first-of-its-kind application of Zelle to enable charitable disbursements from Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). The new capability allows nonprofits to receive ...

Donors using Harvard’s donor-advised fund directed nearly $9 million to three organizations focused on Jewish life and ...

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 ...

Something troubling is happening to charitable giving in the United States. On the surface, this is a strange assertion, as overall contribution levels are remarkably consistent from year to year.

Donor-advised funds—the charitable giving vehicle that enables clients to make tax-deductible contributions to a fund and control the grantmaking–are proving to be far more impactful than private ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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