June 27, 2025
Meet the Donor-Advised Funds That Are Meeting the Moment
Good practices are out there, but these practices need to be the rule, not the exception.
When have nonprofits been on thinner ice than today? Nonprofits are scrounging for donations, losing federal funding, and struggling to survive in dangerous political conditions.
Sometimes lost in the conversation are intermediaries like private foundations and donor-advised funds (DAFs). All told, these grantmaking groups steward an estimated $1.7 trillion in assets. Alas, too many of them treat federal annual giving requirements as ceilings not floors, leaving money piling up and nonprofits in the lurch.
But this tendency is, fortunately, not universal—and some foundations and DAFs are stepping up. These field leaders are creating a path that others can follow.
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