Why She Chose Our Donor Advised Fund for Charitable Giving

The journey of philanthropy can be tremendously fulfilling; it can be a little bit tricky, too. Young inheritor and investor Kate Gardner uses a donor advised fund (DAF) at The Signatry to make supporting the causes she cares about more simple, rewarding, and fruitful.

1. Streamline the giving process.

Staying involved with your charitable giving means:

You get to follow along with the important work being supported.
You also get to keep up with emails, calls, receipts, and tax deductions to process and account for all of your one-time, recurring, sponsorship, major, matching, and other gifts.

The administrative burden of supporting kingdom work can take a toll.

One meaningful way to “not become weary of doing good” (Galatians 6:9), in the financial sense, is to consolidate giving through a donor advised fund.

Take Kate Gardner’s experience with The Signatry:

By entrusting the administrative tasks to an expert team using the right tools, her giving experience has become “incredibly efficient,” creating space for her to more fully engage with the good work of the nonprofits she supports.

2. Bind faith and philanthropy together.

In her testimony, Kate beautifully expresses her approach to conversations with her giving team at The Signatry: “Will you help me commission this gift?”

This posture demonstrates how Kate’s faith-driven generosity is strengthened when the giving vehicle itself is faith-aligned.

She shared more about why she donates through a Christian donor advised fund:

By using a DAF at The Signatry, donors are welcomed into a virtual gathering of generous believers. You are invited to work closely with a team that is not only qualified and attentive, but also compelled to help meet the needs of others and advance the gospel.

It is one thing to support the work of organizations doing good; it is exponentially more powerful when two or more work together, commissioning and sending gifts out into the world.

3. Cultivate more fruitful generosity.

As the giving experience becomes “next level,” so does the impact. Kate and others who give through donor advised funds at The Signatry enjoy a mix of benefits that, ultimately, extend the reach of their generosity:

• Using DAFs as a donation staging area, donors can strategically map out their giving journey while responding to emerging needs with agility.
• Giving through a DAF can decrease a donor’s tax burden and increase impact on the nonprofits they love, all at a lower cost than running a traditional family foundation, freeing up more resources for good.
• Nonprofits enjoy, in Kate’s words, “multiplied encouragement and support” as donors and The Signatry’s team faithfully partner in supporting their important work.

In a world with countless needs—the deepest being spiritual—growing your capacity to make a difference is eternally game changing.

Using a donor advised fund has a variety of advantages that help make giving more manageable, intentional, and sustainable. At The Signatry, we count it a privilege to steward today’s gifts into lifetimes of biblical generosity and legacies of extraordinary impact.