Giving infrastructure
We offer tools, resources, and support, including a Donor Advised Fund program and expert team of global grant-makers, to make the practicalities of giving quick and easy.
Our Donor Advised Fund (DAF) program
We offer an optional, in-house DAF to Founders Pledge members as a flexible, efficient, and secure way to maximize donations.
What is a DAF?
Why choose a Founders Pledge DAF?
How your DAF works
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Fund your DAF
Open your account and contribute, as much and as often as you like. We accept multiple currencies and assets (including cash, public and private securities, cryptocurrency, and more). You can transfer from another DAF or account.
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Learn & plan
Explore our research, learn about high-impact funding opportunities, or work with an Advisor. For members with access to investment options, your funds will grow while you dig in.
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Make grants
As you make decisions about when and where you want to give, request grants from your DAF. We facilitate global grant-making on your behalf.
To find out more about our DAF program, including US investment options, please get in touch.
Expert stewardship
Our Philanthropic Services team brings deep expertise to help members navigate the decisions and logistics around giving.
Complex assets
We support a broad spectrum of giving, so you can both give more and give more effectively. We'll guide you through making contributions of private shares and illiquid assets. As you think about your long-term charitable intentions, we can work with you to establish planned or legacy gifts that fit into your will or estate planning.
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Comprehensive due diligence
We go above and beyond to review each grant holistically. This ensures that our grant-making does not cause harm, and that our grantees are financially stable and above reproach in their policies and governance.
Impact-first grant-making
We make grants that others won’t. Our team works creatively to help grants reach the most impactful recipients around the world, so you can fund early stage charities, innovative non-profits, and complex research initiatives.
Certain types of opportunities require more intensive vetting, and other institutions will only choose easier or ‘safer’ grantees instead. We explore and evaluate every chance to support high-impact projects; this means we end up supporting work that otherwise might not be funded.
Impact-first grant: TerraPraxis
Funding TerraPraxis when it was a brand-new organization allowed it to spend less time fundraising and more time designing its innovative solutions for hard-to-decarbonize sectors to tackle climate change.
Impact-first grant: Prof Tetlock
Supporting Professor Philip Tetlock and his team funded their research and their development of second-generation forecasting: work which may dramatically improve our ability to predict and mitigate the biggest risks humans face.