What is a donor-advised fund?
A donor-advised fund (DAF) is a great tax-saving alternative to giving directly to charities or creating a private foundation. At the National Christian Foundation, our DAF is called the Giving Fund, and it’s a popular alternative that functions like a charitable checking account.
With an NCF Giving Fund you can manage all your giving 24/7 from any device. It reduces paperwork and overhead costs and helps you track individual receipts from charities. Charitable organizations thrive on donor funding, and you and your family can support them from one centralized place.
How does a DAF work?
A DAF works like a charitable checking account. With an initial contribution into your DAF account (Giving Fund), you immediately qualify for an income tax deduction. Then you are free to begin researching and recommending grants from the fund to charities you love. You can also choose how you’d like the money in your fund to be invested to potentially grow over time and create the most impact.
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Interested in learning more about how a DAF (Giving Fund) with the National Christian Foundation can help you achieve your giving goals while maximizing your tax benefits? Contact us today.
What makes a donor-advised fund at NCF unique?
With a donor-advised fund at the National Christian Foundation (or Giving Fund), you have the freedom to recommend grants to a variety of charities you feel called to support, including your church, your favorite Christian ministries and nonprofits, your alma mater, and other local community organizations such as museums and arts organizations. To date, NCF givers have supported 70,000 charities with more than $12 billion in grants from their funds.
At NCF, we meet some of the most generous people in the world, with hearts set on getting money to ministries and charities as fast as possible. In our most recent calendar year, 2021, they recommended $1.6 billion in grants to tens of thousands of charities, resulting in NCF having one of the highest payout rates of any DAF in the country. NCF’s mission is to mobilize resources for charitable work and advancing God’s kingdom by inspiring biblical generosity, and we love seeing this mission become a reality.
With 30 offices around the country, NCF is here to help you with an experienced, like-minded team of some of the best charitable giving experts in the country. So whether you want to provide homes for the homeless, clean water for the thirsty, justice for victims in sex trafficking, relief for disaster victims, and so much more, we can help you maximize your impact to the causes you love.
And it starts with a donor-advised fund.
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A Giving Fund works like a charitable checking account, and when you see it in action, you'll know why. You make gifts into the fund and then recommend grants to your favorite charities from any device. And NCF sends the charity money to support their work.
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When you open a Giving Fund with NCF, you not only experience tangible benefits that simplify your giving and multiply your impact, but you also join tens of thousands of givers around the world in an unprecedented movement of Christian generosity.
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