What is a Donor Advised Fund (DAF)?

A Donor Advised Fund operates like a charitable checkbook, offering you an immediate charitable deduction with the flexibility to make grant recommendations to charities you care about whenever you’re ready. The way it works is that you get a charitable deduction as soon as you set up the fund.  Then, whenever you’re ready, you start to make grants to the charitable causes you care about.  And we can help!  Whether it’s finding the best way to support at risk youth or veterans or arts and culture, our team is ready to help! 

What’s more, establishing a DAF is easy and can be done in a day!  All we need is the name of the fund (whatever you’d like to call it) and the people you’d like to make grant recommendations from the fund.  We’ll do the rest!  Whether you’re an individual, a family, or a business, a donor advised fund is a flexible, efficient, cost-effective way to do your charitable giving.

There is also no better tool for you to create a family legacy.  Establishing a donor advised fund at NCF and naming your children and grandchildren as successor advisors is a great way to pass on the invaluable gift of giving and create a lasting legacy of good in your name.