A donor-advised fund can make charitable giving more strategic — but only if your plan turns committed assets into timely grants. The donor-advised fund has emerged as the new darling of the charitable giving world. Nonprofits are seeing a surge in DAF gifts and are even organizing, Giving Tuesday-style, to promote more DAF grant recommendations. DAFs have become mainstream, growing 30% year over year in the past decade, according to the National Philanthropic Trust DAF Report. Sponsoring organizations held more than $326 billion in DAF assets as of 2025, and the number of new DAF accounts and amount of DAF assets both continue to rise. All of this sounds great — and for the sponsoring organizations that manage and administer donor-advised funds, that’s the point, […]