Donor-Advised Fund FAQs

On the upper right-hand corner of the website is a button called “Fund Login.” Simply click this link to take you to the fund management area.

A grant is a monetary gift you recommend to be given to a charitable organization from your Donor-Advised Fund.

No. Grants can be any size.

You can send out one grant a year, or fifty grants a month. It’s totally up to you. We do all the administrative work of verifying the organization, writing and mailing the check, and following up to make sure the check was received.

Yes. Grants can be sent anonymously.

We cannot make grants to individuals. All grants must be sent to an IRS approved organization or church. The Generosity Trust does have an innovative scholarship program to help support qualifying individuals raise support for college, seminary and other educational opportunities. Read more in Timothy Scholarships.

We generally mail grant checks on the same day you recommend the grant. However, if the ministry or church is a new ministry to us, this process may take several days. In those cases, we are required to do due diligence to ensure that the ministry is indeed a 501(c)(3) organization, and not engaged in any activity we would not want to be associated with. We also have to ensure that no benefits would potentially flow back to you.

When you start a Donor-Advised Fund you immediately get online access to your account where you can make gifts, look up previous grants, make grant recommendations, and more. Quarterly statement are posted online or can be mailed by request.

We can accept cash, checks, publicly traded securities, real estate (with no debt), privately-held stock (like in an S-corp or a C-corp or an LLC), and other creative gifts as well. We’d be happy to talk with you and work with your financial advisors to help you make the most of your charitable giving.