It’s easy to recommend a grant from your Donor Advised Fund to the Seeley Lake Community Foundation!
This is a great way for you to strengthen Seeley Lake while keeping it special. It’s tax-efficient for you, and cost-effective for us!
Clients of Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, and BNY Mellon can make a designation right here, through this DAF Direct window:
Please make sure your DAF sponsor shares your contact info with us, so we can say thank you!
Why this option is great for Seeley Lake
Making a grant through the DAF Direct widget above is an easy and cost-effective way for you to give, and for the SLCF to receive funds. After a DAF grant recommendation has been approved, 100% of the funds transfer to the recommended nonprofit (us!), with no administration or transaction fees for using the DAF Direct service.
When you recommend a grant to the SLCF through the widget above, the administrative and transaction costs of the DAF distributions are borne by the DAF fund managers. This makes is cheaper for us to receive your gift! Donations received via credit card through our website require a processing fee, but using this DAF Direct widget is a win-win for you, and for the SLCF!
My DAF is held somewhere else
That’s ok, we can still easily accept grants from Donor Advised Funds held at other institutions. Just follow your institution’s process for making a grant recommendation through your DAF, and the SLCF will soon receive the grant. This process works great, it will just takes a little more time and effort for you. Our EIN is 31-1711576. Our mailing address is: PO Box 25, Seeley Lake MT 59868. Make sure your DAF sponsor sends us your name, so we can thank you!
About DAF Direct
DAF Direct’s mission is to support nonprofits by providing a cost-efficient and simple way for donors to give, and nonprofits to receive grants. By streamlining the charitable giving process, DAF Direct helps nonprofits to tap into the growing popularity of DAFs.
As a step toward making it easier and more practical for small nonprofits (like us!) to communicate with DAF holders, Fidelity Charitable, along with Schwab Charitable and the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, developed a “DAF Direct” widget that nonprofits could download to their donation pages so DAF donors could recommend DAF distributions as a donation payment option in addition to the usual check or credit card options.
Before DAF Direct, a DAF donor would typically research and pick a charity but have to turn back to Fidelity to recommend the charity for a distribution from the giving account. Now, with this mechanism, you can easily and economically make a recommendation for a grant to the SLCF right on this page, through the widget above, and support Seeley Lake, the place you love!
After the grant recommendation is approved, funds will be distributed to the SLCF, either via check or electronic funds transfer.
What is a DAF?
Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are an increasingly popular vehicle for charitable giving. DAFs allow donors to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction and then recommend grants from the fund over time.
For donors, DAFs are attractive, relatively inexpensive, flexible, tax-efficient, and simple.
