Good work should not remain invisible because the right people have never been introduced to it.

Set yourself up for DAF giving.

Donor-advised funds move a large share of private charitable capital on relationship and discretion rather than open competition. Being findable is most of the work.

1. Confirm your legal or charitable pathway. Have your legal name, EIN/TIN, and current IRS-qualified public charity status ready — or clearly name the eligible fiscal sponsor that receives on your behalf. Fiscal sponsorship is not automatically eligible everywhere; the sponsor's own rules control what it will accept.
2. Make your organization easy to find. Your website should display your legal name and any doing-business-as name, your EIN/TIN, and current contact information. Where possible, the name a donor sees should match the name in IRS records — sponsors search by that name.
3. Add DAF giving to your Ways to Give. One short paragraph is enough. Use your real legal name and EIN in the placeholders below — never a sample value.
   • Have a donor-advised fund? You can recommend a grant to support [Organization Legal Name]. Search for us using [legal name] and EIN [XX-XXXXXXX].
4. Make grant receipt easy. Designate one person as the DAF and grants contact. Where your sponsor supports it, enroll for EFT/ACH so grants arrive without a paper check cycle. A DAF grant-recommendation widget can be added later if it fits — DSG has not integrated one.
5. Build the Opportunity Profile. This is the introduction itself: geography, issue and population, the outcome you want, the opportunity, the amount or capital need, use of funds, evidence, leadership and contact, your charitable or fiscal pathway, and a plain statement of what is verified today and what still needs verification.
6. Submit to DSG — free. A person reads it. You receive one of three plain statuses: Ready for Open DAF · Promising — strengthen a few things · Build it first. Consideration is free and inclusion is never purchased.
7. When a DAF grant arrives. Record the sponsoring organization as the legal grantor and source of the grant. If the donor or advisor's information is shared with you, steward that human relationship in your development system — and respect anonymity when it is requested. Use a DAF-specific thank-you rather than tax-deduction language; the donor's deduction generally occurred when assets were contributed to the sponsor.
8. Keep the relationship. Thank quickly. Show impact rather than need. Invite appropriate non-transactional engagement — a visit, a briefing, a question you actually want answered. Then make a future recommendation easy to place.

Have a donor-advised fund? Recommend a grant to [Organization Legal Name], EIN [XX-XXXXXXX]. If your sponsor asks for a purpose, you may recommend general operating support or [named project] unless your sponsor's rules require otherwise. Questions? Contact [name/email].

The donor's sponsoring organization reviews and approves recommendations. The donor advises; the donor does not legally control the grant after contributing assets to the DAF sponsor.

Thank you for recommending a grant of [amount] from your donor-advised fund in support of [Organization]. We are grateful you chose to put this charitable capital behind [work/outcome]. This acknowledgment is for stewardship purposes and is not a tax receipt for the DAF grant.

Keep tax language simple. Sponsor rules vary, and DSG does not give tax, legal, or accounting advice. Confirm anything unusual with your sponsor and your own advisors.

• Ready for Open DAF
• Promising — strengthen a few things
• Build it first

What do you want your giving to do?

The collection is curated by issue · geography · population · desired outcome · capital need. There are no best-to-worst rankings. DSG does not custody charitable assets, does not sponsor a donor-advised fund, and cannot guarantee that a sponsor will approve any recommendation.

1. Choose what you want your giving to do. Issue, geography, population, desired outcome, capital need. Start with the outcome, not the organization.
2. Explore the curated Opportunity Profiles. Each profile is written to be read in a few minutes: the work, the place, the outcome, the amount, and the use of funds.
3. Read what is verified and what is not. Every profile marks what is verified today and what still needs verification. Where evidence does not support a conclusion, the gap is named rather than filled.
4. Ask DSG for more context. Community landscape, giving-thesis support, custom opportunity sourcing, or diligence support. This is paid capital-side work, arranged in conversation.
5. Log into your own DAF sponsor account. Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, a community foundation, or whichever sponsor holds your fund. Search the organization by legal name and EIN.
6. Recommend the grant. Enter the amount and purpose through your sponsor. The sponsor has legal control and reviews every recommendation.
7. Decide how you want to appear. Share your name and contact information, or remain anonymous — subject to the options your sponsor offers.
8. If approved, the sponsor sends the grant. The organization may thank you. You generally do not receive a second charitable deduction for the grant itself; the deduction opportunity was associated with your earlier contribution to the sponsor.
9. Stay in relationship. Consider a recurring recommendation, a follow-up conversation, a site or virtual visit, or future giving as the work develops.

• Use the collection to discover organizations outside the usual networks and referral loops.
• Ask DSG for a community landscape, a curated shortlist, a giving thesis, or diligence support.
• DSG's paid capital-side work never changes whether an organization is admitted to the free community collection.

Prefer to write directly? Email deenastrategies@gmail.com or call 614-383-9548. A person reads it. DSG gives no tax, legal, or accounting advice, and sponsor procedures vary.

Paid work on the capital side — giving thesis, opportunity sourcing, portfolio research and diligence — never affects who is included in the free community collection.