Europe has inherited the US shopping spree “Black Friday”, “Cyber Monday”, and the altruistic/balancing pre-Christmas charitable, “Giving Tuesday”. Today National Philanthropic Trust UK (NPT-UK) advises people to be strategic in their charitable giving and predicts Europe will again follow US trends with record use of Donor Advised Funds (DAFs – charitable savings account) for 2016. Total grants from DAFs to charities reached a record $14.52 billion in the US in 2016*. DAF accounts now outnumber private foundations by three to one and are the fastest growing charitable giving vehicles – bar none.
John Canady, CEO of NPT-UK said: “We have been working hard to raise the profile of Donor Advised Funds which are relatively unknown here in Europe. The amount of philanthropic activity is on the rise in Europe and we are seeing more people being attracted to the DAF model to provide flexibility and control over their charitable giving.
“Since our 2014 launch, we have attracted over £10m and helped over 20 donors establish UK-based donor advised funds. Our ambition is to help raise the profile of donor-advised funds as charitable vehicles in UK and Europe so that we can make it easier for people to give money to charities globally. We want to make sure everyone understands that you don’t have to be a millionaire to have a strategic and organised charitable vehicle.”
Published annually by National Philanthropic Trust, the 2016 Donor-Advised Fund Report (https://www.nptrust.org/daf-report/) reveals DAF assets available for grantmaking grew to a new high of $78.64 billion. Donors’ contributions to DAFs also hit an all-time high of $22.26 billion.
NPT-UK is an independent UK registered charity dedicated to providing philanthropic expertise to donors, financial institutions, foundations and charities through donor advised funds (DAFs; a type of charitable savings account).
NPT-UK is affiliated with National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) in the United States which was founded in 1996. NPT has raised $6.2 billion in charitable contributions, currently manages $2.9 billion in charitable assets and has made more than 150,000 grants exceeding $3.6 billion to charities around the world.
National Philanthropic Trust-UK is a UK-registered charity dedicated to providing philanthropic expertise to donors, financial institutions, foundations and charities, enabling them to realise their philanthropic aspirations. NPT-UK was founded in 2013 to increase philanthropy through donor-advised fund giving vehicles. NPT-UK offers donors-advised fund accounts for donors who wish to manage their giving over time and designated funds for donors who wish to make one-time gifts.
NPT-UK is a UK/US dual qualified charity. Donations to NPT-UK are recognised for tax purposes in both countries simultaneously. NPT-UK is an independent UK charity (charity number 115376) and is recognised by the IRS as a disregarded entity of the 501(c)(3) public charity National Philanthropic Trust in the US (EIN 23-7825575).
Marking its 20th Anniversary in 2016, NPT is the largest, national independent Donor-Advised Fund sponsor in the US. Since its founding, NPT has raised $6.2 billion in charitable contributions, currently manages $2.9 billion in charitable assets and has made more than 150,000 grants exceeding $3.6 billion to charities around the world. NPT annually publishes the Donor-Advised Fund Report, the industry’s authority on the state of US-based DAF giving.
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