Donating to a Donor Advised Fund enables you to contribute, receive a tax deduction, and advise the charity on how to use your donation.
Charitable Giving
Sensible Continues Cradles to Crayons Volunteering Tradition
The Sensible team continued their fall tradition and donated time, energy, and gently-worn clothes to Cradles to Crayons.
Sensible Financial Tips (part 3)
For our 20th anniversary, the Sensible staff came up with financial tips to share. This article deals with investing and charitable giving.
Charitable Giving Options (Part 2)
Charitable giving can reduce your tax liability if you know the strategies and vehicles that allow you to take advantage of the tax benefits.
Charitable Giving Options
How can you give to your favorite charity and enjoy a tax benefit? Reducing your taxable income is the simple answer. But, how?
How Strategic Charitable Giving Can Maximize Your Deduction
Charitable giving truly is the gift that keeps on giving. In addition to the positive feelings you get from giving to a needy charity, a charitable gift can reduce your taxes. In this article I’ll show you how planned giving, which takes into account how your income (and therefore tax brackets) change over time, can [Learn more…]
Charitable Giving… Sensibly
If you make, or are planning to make, a charitable gift, and you have a brokerage account with appreciated securities, you might be better off donating those securities directly to your charity than making a cash gift of the same amount. In this article, I’ll describe how a charitable gift reduces taxable income. Then I’ll [Learn more…]