Instead, they might donate $30,000 to a
donor-advised fund in 2019.
One possible vehicle for bunching contributions is the
donor-advised fund. Taxpayers can claim the charitable tax deduction in the year of funding the
donor-advised fund and schedule grants over the next two years or other multi-year periods.
Create or Add to a
Donor-Advised Fund (DAF): This strategy may generate tax savings while streamlining your charitable giving.
If you want to still be able to claim a charitable deduction, what you need to do is instead of giving at the annual rate you normally give, you bunch a couple years' worth of charitable giving into a
donor-advised fund.
Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have given Facebook stock worth (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2018/05/02/here-are-16-billionaires-whove-donated-to-the-silicon-valley-community-foundation/#3a86631d1bfb) more than $1.75 billion to a (https://theconversation.com/donor-advised-funds-charities-with-benefits-74516)
donor-advised fund , essentially a charitable savings account that on a large scale operates like a foundation without having to follow the rules that foundations must observe, at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation since 2010.
These increases in net income were partially offset by a voluntary charitable contribution of $5 million made by the Bank during the second quarter of 2018 for the Quality Jobs Fund, a
donor-advised fund established to support quality job growth and small business expansion.
Schwab Charitable, a
donor-advised fund sponsor, reported this week that it facilitated more than $1.6 billion in grants to 71,000 charities in 2017.
(See the Trusted Advice box.) In these situations, you might want to contribute via a
donor-advised fund.
A mission-driven
donor-advised fund such as DonorsTrust offers a simple, secure, and tax-advantaged way to ensure your charitable intent does not stray from your principles.
One way to look at the performance of sponsoring organizations is through their "
donor-advised fund payout rate." For this analysis, payout rate is defined as: "Aggregate grants from (
donor-advised funds)" divided by "Aggregate (
donor-advised fund) value at beginning of year." (8) Using this calculation, the median payout rate for 2012 was 10 percent of the total value of
donor-advised funds held by the sponsoring organization.
In June, Children's National Health System and Benefunder, a hosted
donor-advised fund, announced a partnership to increase funding for pediatric research.