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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Donor-advised funds continue to surge past nonprofits and foundations in accumulating charitable assets: They are now worth almost one third more than they were before the recession started in 2007, ...

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 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 ...

(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 ...