Donor Advised Funds

What’s the biggest source of nonprofit funding? I’ll bet you would have a hard time guessing. It’s not donations by individuals.

It’s fun to see families bearing down on the idea of multi-generational success. Sometimes families approach me with a simple question: “Where do…

“Not all donor advised funds are created equal,” writes Iain Bernhoft in Philanthropy Daily. DAFs are popular, but donors need to know…

Do you know how a donor advised fund works? Not many people do, though they’ve been around since 1914.

For many in the philanthropy world, private family foundations are an assumed part of life. But they didn’t always occupy such a…

We are just a few weeks into 2019.  For most organizations, the books have not fully closed on 2018 and thus it’s…

What are the key differences between donor advised funds and private foundations? Today, there are 86,516 private foundations in the country containing…

An October 4, 2018, article by Bloomberg noted that donor advised funds have tripled in growth to more than $85 billion in…

People continue to make sense of the new tax law.  What are the opportunities and challenges particularly as it relates to charitable…

We’ve been handling noncash gifts for years at The Signatry. I remember one of my first noncash gifts was a 1967 Pontiac….

There are over 750 community foundations that sponsor donor advised funds around the United States, according to the Council on Foundations. Surprisingly,…

Herman was one of our first clients. He’d had an account with another donor advised fund firm. But he switched to us….