The Institute for Policy Studies paints a dire picture of funders hoarding wealth and capitulating to the president. It also offers glimmers of hope.

A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors ...

Southern Poverty Law Center was targeted by a weaponized DOJ and commercial DAFs paused grantmaking to them. That's a dangerous choice.

The Policy Director of IPS's Charity Reform Initiative predicts the number of donor-advised funds will shrink in the years to come.

Warns of coming supercharged dynastic philanthropy.

15 years on, the Giving Pledge is unfulfilled, unfulfillable, and not our ticket to a fairer, better future.

Amid an unprecedented attack in an already precarious funding landscape, some DAFs provide affirmative examples for how the whole sector should operate.

Where do DAF dollars go—and how quickly do these donor dollars actually arrive at operating nonprofits? The answers, derived from a new study, may be surprising.

Demystifying donor-advised funds and their impacts on charitable giving, fair taxation, and our democracy itself.

Demystifying donor-advised funds and their impacts on charitable giving, fair taxation, and our democracy itself.

Demystifying donor-advised funds and their impacts on charitable giving, fair taxation, and our democracy itself.

Organizers say the nonprofit will be backed by an eight-figure funding campaign

As of Friday evening it appears that the Trump/Musk GOP has managed to put out, or at least move to “controlled” status, the wildfire they lit for no particular reason earlier in the week.

One of the country's largest donor-advised fund sponsors publishes an annual report that demands a closer look.

"Philanthropic cakeism" is the new paradigm for donors.

We taxpayers heavily subsidize ultrawealthy giving. But who really benefits?

Musk, the world's richest person, spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping Trump get elected president in November.

Private foundations must donate 5 percent of their assets every year. Elon Musk’s enormous charity missed that standard for three consecutive years.

Billionaires and Wall Street exploit our charitable giving laws to dodge taxes and collect fees, hurting real charities in the process.

The chief executive of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has taken advantage of popular loopholes in the federal estate and gift taxes, which have quietly been eviscerated.

As CEOs cut back on DEI and tell young workers to leave their politics at home, charitable giving is emerging as a way for employees to bring their own values to work.

A new study reveals that charitable giving will soon be dominated by Wall Street dark-money funds that enrich the wealthy and never have to give to working charities.

Donors can get two different tax breaks when they give by turning stocks, bonds and other financial assets into charitable gifts.

Donor-advised fund giant Schwab Charitable plays a pivotal role in Leonard Leo’s weaponized funding schemes.

The shadowy donor-advised fund (DAF) system is enabling wealthy donors to quietly pour billions of dollars into organizations pumping out climate misinformation. For all of our safety, it's time to ...

An emerging payment processing firm advertises itself as a frictionless philanthropy aid. Its use may come with hidden costs.

A donor-advised fund devoted to supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has leapt from being a relatively minor charity to one with an asset size comparable to behemoths like the A...