Charitable giving structures

The structures available for charitable giving — donor-advised funds, private foundations, charitable trusts, direct giving — each carry different implications for control, visibility, timing, and tax. The choice among them reveals something about the giver's relationship to the act of giving: whether it is primarily about impact, about legacy, about tax efficiency, or about relationship with cause. Honesty about motivation tends to produce better outcomes.

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