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.

As financial advisors, we’ve often recommended that clients set up donor-advised funds. We know the drill: Contribute to the fund and get an immediate tax deduction. But it often takes time for the ...

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 ...

How donor-advised funds work and key considerations before contributing assets Changes under the OBBBA affecting deductions and giving strategies How strategies like bunching can maximize charitable ...

Starting next year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act sets new limits on charitable-gift tax deductions. To prepare for those restrictions, some experts are recommending that their wealthy philanthropic ...

DAFgiving360 reported its donors granted a record $9.9 billion to charities in 2025 from their donor-advised funds, or DAFs. Tax advisors to the wealthy encouraged clients to make large donations to ...

(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 ...

Jeff Brooks, who writes the Donor Power Blog, says charities need to take donor-advised funds very seriously. There is a lot of money flowing into them — several sit at the top of The Chronicle ...

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 ...

Helen Flannery is employed by the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank that has done research related to charity reforms. Brian Mittendorf does not work for, consult, own shares in ...