DAF: A Little Known Giving Tool
Turn Your Best Year Into a Legacy
With Tax-Wise Benefits
For business owners and investors ready to chase purpose. We help you start your own donor-advised fund: your personal charity savings account, deductible the year you give (if you itemize, within IRS limits) and untaxed while it grows. Every gift still costs more than the tax it saves, but your own DAF lets each dollar go further.
What Is a Donor-Advised Fund (DAF)?
Instead of writing donor checks to one place at a time, you give once to your own fund, held inside an existing 501(c)(3) public charity without starting your own. You advise when and where the funds are granted. Your deduction lands the year you give, even if the money waits in the fund for months or years before any grant. You keep one set of records and recommend grants to every charity that touches your heart, on your timeline, with your family. The sponsoring charity holds the fund and approves each grant, and gifts to it cannot be taken back.
Education only · your fund, your chosen name · we never hold your money · we are paid only by you
You Built Something. Now You Want It to Mean Something.
You have done the work: the long nights, the risk, the growth. The next win does not stir you the way it used to. What stirs you now is what your success could do for someone else. If that sounds like you, you are in the right place.
The Business Owner
Your company has good years now. You want part of every strong year to reach the causes you care about, on purpose instead of in a rush at year-end.
The Investor
You hold stock or other assets that have grown for years. You would rather those gains fund the Kingdom than sit waiting for their next move.
The Family Steward
You want your children to learn generosity by doing it with you, and to carry it on long after you.
The Pastor or Church Leader
You shepherd generous people who have never had this tool explained, and you want to point them somewhere trustworthy.
Profit was the goal for a season. Purpose is the goal now. This is one simple way to give it a plan.
Four Steps, Walked Together
Plant the Fund
Open your own donor-advised fund, give in your strongest years, and let the giving flow out on your timeline, to the causes that touch your heart.
What Most People Never Hear
If you have ever thought one of these, you are in good company. Here is what is actually true.
Become a Donor-Advisor, Not an Owner.
Here is the shift that changes how you give. When you give to your donor-advised fund, the gift legally belongs to the sponsoring charity, and that is what makes it deductible the year you give it. What you keep is the part that matters most: you advise. You recommend which charities receive grants, when, and how much, and you name who carries it on after you. It was always God's. Now it is set apart for giving.
| As an Owner | As a Donor-Advisor |
|---|---|
| Giving decided under deadline | Giving decided in prayer and with family |
| A deduction only when you finally give | A deduction the year you fund it (if you itemize) |
| Giving happens in scattered moments | Giving becomes a rhythm and a legacy |
| It ends with you | Successor donor-advisors carry it on |
Gifts to a donor-advised fund cannot be taken back. The sponsoring charity holds legal control and approves grants, which are typically made as you recommend to eligible charities. Deductions require itemizing and are limited by income (generally 60% for cash, 30% for appreciated assets), with a 5-year carryforward. Any investment growth in the fund is not taxed, and its value can also go down.
What Would a Gift Really Cost You This Year?
Pick your income and slide the gift. The tax benefits are real, but they are not the reason: a fund simply gives a generous heart room to plan.
Anyone Can Guide You to a Fund. Not Everyone Walks With You.
Honestly, you could open a donor-advised fund on your own this afternoon. Your fund is always opened directly with a sponsor, either one of the two trusted sponsors we recommend or any sponsor you already work with. The sponsor holds your fund, reviews every grant you recommend, and makes the grants it approves. That part is the same wherever you go.
What is not the same is who walks with you. A fund is a field, and a field needs more than a fence. Paul reminded the church that whoever plants and whoever waters are only servants, and God gives the growth (1 Corinthians 3:5–7). We hold our work to that: we can help you plant and water, and the growth was never ours to give.
The 7-Day Seed, Free
Your vision, your sponsor, your fund’s name and your first grant plan, in one guided week.
Accountability Coaching
Business stewardship, not donation stewardship, from people on the same road.
Savant Services
The tools to sharpen when you are ready: your story, your events, your supporters.
The Tribes
The Collective and the weekly Prayer Gathering, open to everyone, whether or not you work with us.
Your sponsor holds your fund and makes every grant it approves. You advise it. We walk beside you.
The 7-Day Seed is free. Accountability coaching and Savant Services are included with Sow packages and above; the Tribes are open to everyone.
The Road From Seed to Legacy
Solo Sowers
Your fund, your rhythm, your heart for giving.
The 7-Day Seed: from your giving vision to a submitted application, with two calls and a daily step.
Community and accountability coaching while your giving finds its rhythm and you consider your first grant recommendations.
+ All Savant ServicesGenerational Stewards
A giving tradition handed on to the next generation.
Hand-in-hand guidance through a full year, with your CPA in the room at the moments that matter.
+ All Savant ServicesSuccessors formed where your sponsor allows, the family’s why written down, and the door to the Ripple Program.
+ All Savant ServicesWe walk with families at any size and any season. The ladder follows where you are going, not how much you start with, and the price of a package is never tied to the size of your fund or your gifts.
Till in Advance
A farmer tills the whole field before the season, not one row a week. Tilling does the same for your giving: planned before the season comes, one charity at a time.
With your own fund you recommend when grants go out. One strong month can seed a whole year of monthly grant recommendations to the charities you love, and each one can be informed by a conversation with the charity that receives it. Sponsor minimums and approval apply.
Pass-Through Modelling
How one company’s giving becomes deductions for every K-1 member, with a model for the whole ownership group.
Every donor-advisorPre-Tilling Recurring Grants
You control the disbursements: one month’s gift can seed a whole year of monthly grants, with the deduction landing the year you give.
Before any large grantHand in Hand with Purpose
You can recommend any amount. The best grants are sized with the charity that receives them: capacity, restrictions, eligibility, reporting, and the public support question.
Where the Water Goes
Faith-led charities and ministries your fund can recommend grants to, gathered in three programs. You choose where your heart is; your sponsor reviews each recommendation and makes the grants it approves.
Pastoral Provisions
The Church and its shepherds: care for pastors, church planting, Scripture and the Gospel, missions, and the persecuted Church.
747 ListedLiving Provisions
Everyday mercy close to home: kids and youth, foster and adoptive families, recovery, hunger and housing, and families touched by prison.
13 ListedGlobal Provisions
Mercy across borders: children worldwide, prisons worldwide, clean water, medical care, and relief.
Faith-Led Charities Near You
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Listing a charity is not an endorsement of it or an affiliation with it, and it is not a promise that any grant will be approved. Your sponsor confirms each charity's eligibility.
Who Walks the Road With You
Four tribes, one road: people giving with a plan, building with purpose, and praying together.
KPDAF Donor Advisors
The guides who walk owners through opening and seeding a donor-advised fund at a sponsor.
Meet The Donor Advisors →KPCollective
The broad body of stewards and entrepreneurs walking from skill to stewardship.
+ Kingdompreneur Prayer GatheringMeet The Collective →KPCohorts
The team behind Kingdom Portfolios’ own work, building in the open.
Meet The Cohort →KPTributaries
Owners, families, and guides who walked the whole road with us and now carry it into their own communities.
+ The Ripple ProgramMeet The Tributaries →The Kingdompreneur Prayer Gathering
Every week, Kingdompreneurs and faith-led leaders from around the world gather online to pray: for one another, and for the ministry of giving wherever it grows. Your invitation comes by the Collective Letters; you can leave anytime.
The Path We Teach Is the Path We Took
Our founder opened Kingdom Seed Foundation, with two donor-advised funds, Kingdom Philanthropy and Global Seeds, for charities worldwide (both now approved), by walking the path we teach: the vision, the sponsor, the name and mission, and the application, which took one afternoon. We are walking the next steps, the first gift and the first grant, the same way we will walk them with you.
Our founder's donor-advised funds · approvedKingdom Seed FoundationSee the funds we are building, step by step, at seedthekingdom.orgShared as our example of the process. It is not a place we ask you to give, and giving to it is never part of our services.
Start With a Free Consultation Call
Tell us about your giving and what you hope it will do. No cost and no pressure, just a conversation about whether a donor-advised fund fits your family.
Kingdom Portfolios provides education and process guidance on charitable giving. We are not a law firm, CPA firm, registered investment adviser, or broker-dealer, and we do not provide tax, legal, or investment advice or manage or direct the investment of any donor-advised fund. Consult your own CPA and attorney. Grants are made at the sponsor's discretion and are not guaranteed, and fund investments can lose value. We receive no compensation, referral fees, or revenue share from any DAF sponsor or charity and are not affiliated with any sponsor, though Kingdom Portfolios has been approved for its own accounts with both sponsors we recommend. Our founder serves as donor-advisor to Kingdom Seed Foundation, whose two donor-advised funds, Kingdom Philanthropy and Global Seeds, give to charities worldwide, to which our founder and Kingdom Portfolios LLC may give. We share its story as an example. Giving to it is never part of our services.