By Anna Pruitt and Jon Bergdoll Far from being mysterious, DAF grants follow clear patterns associated with high-net-worth donors. In the United States, the giving vehicles known as donor-advised funds (DAFs) have garnered an enormous amount of attention in recent years due to their rapid growth across every category, from asset value to number of accounts to… Read more »
By Anna Pruitt and Jon Bergdoll The big idea Large shares of grants that donor-advised funds distributed from 2014 to 2018 supported educational and religious nonprofits. That’s what we found in one of the first studies of its kind regarding the financial accounts often called DAFs. People with donor-advised funds use them to give money… Read more »
In the second of a five-part series this week about trends and research in philanthropy, Kristen Robinson and Sarah Gelfand of Fidelity Charitable share their thoughts on donor-advised funds (DAFs). Robinson, senior vice president of service and marketing, and Gelfand, vice president for social impact programs, think every day about how Fidelity Charitable can support… Read more »