Donor Advised Fund

For better or for worse, you simply get to pick a name.

If you jointly decide and execute your charitable giving, then it makes sense to have both partners listed as account holders on the Donor Advised Fund. However, if you have separate charitable intentions and budgets, you can easily set up two different donor advised funds, one for each spouse to use and direct.

Now, thanks to this change, anyone with charitable intentions can open and benefit from a Donor Advised Fund.

Utilizing tax-smart spontaneous giving only requires the smallest amount of planning ahead.

You may or may not want to leave anything to your favorite charity. However, if you do, there are often advantages to using a Donor Advised Fund over designating the charity directly.

Taking these few extra steps can maximize your gift’s benefit to both you and the recipient.

These are two ways to benefit from the higher standard deduction while still fulfilling your charitable intentions.

Even though we recommend Vanguard as a custodian for our readers who are just starting out with investing, they are not our first choice when it comes to Donor Advised Funds.

Which company should you choose when you’re opening a donor-advised fund?

An easy estate workaround is to set up a Donor Advised Fund as a Testamentary fund, meaning you aren’t funding it yet, but it will be funded upon your death.

There are several strategies for using a donor advised fund which will help determine your asset allocation.

A donor advised fund makes the process of charitable giving simple and easy.

We highly recommend a Donor Advised Fund for generous investors.

There are five ways that both you and the government could make charitable giving more significant.

A donor advised fund makes giving easier.

Keeping your donor advised fund invested could result in more benefit to the charities you support.

Schwab Charitable Donor Advised Funds make the gifting process easier.

A Donor Advised Fund is a way to give small amounts to many charities. But take a look at the pros and cons of this strategy before diving in.

Q: We plan to use appreciated stock for charitable giving and are looking into using a Schwab Charitable Fund. Do you have any feedback on this strategy?

Donor Advised Funds offer the charitably inclined new flexibility for managing gifts to charity. By funding an account, donors receive an immediate tax deduction for their contribution and gain the flexibility to direct payouts to charity on their own timetable.