Learn About DAFs
How Donor-Advised Funds Work
WHY NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST?
Our mission is to increase philanthropy in society. We offer donor-advised funds that are uniquely flexible:
Contribute a wide range of assets
Access customized philanthropic services
Choose best-in-class investments
Grant and create a permanent giving legacy
- Cash
- Credit card
- Publicly traded securities
- Restricted and controlled stock
- Bonds
- Mutual fund shares
- Privately-held securities
- Limited partnership interests
- Real estate
- Transfers and grants from private foundations
- Cryptocurrency
- Proceeds from life insurance or from a full-paid policy
- Bequests from wills
- Named beneficiary of charitable remainder or lead trust
- Named beneficiary of an IRA, 401(k), or other retirement account
- Tangible personal property
- Advisory services to help you define and maximize your philanthropy
- Philanthropic vehicles including designated funds and supporting organizations
- Enhanced services and a dedicated philanthropic concierge for Premier Donors with a DAF of $5M or more
- Infrastructure and strategic support for donor collaboratives
- Mutual funds
- Exchange-traded funds
- Discretionary investment plans for DAFs over $500,000 with may include alternative and private investments
- Grants to international charities
- Multi-year and challenge grants
- Grant-by-grant recognition selection, with the option of total anonymity
- Advisors, successors and/or charitable beneficiaries can carry on your philanthropy in perpetuity
