About Advisors Charitable Gift Fund
ACGFund provides a Donor Advised Fund vehicle to help individuals, trusts, estates and corporations maximize philanthropic impact by pooling contributions for efficiency, offering low-cost investment options, and enabling donors to recommend grants aligned with their objectives.
Who They Fund
nonprofit organizations (general)unspecified/varied beneficiary populations
Funding Style
general operating supportunrestricted supportcore/organizational sustainability
Topics
cross-sector / unspecified program focusorganizational capacity and stabilityflexible use funding
About Advisors Charitable Gift Fund
Advisors Charitable Gift Fund’s recent giving is marked by a single very large general-support grant of $3,471,136 to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc. in Indianapolis, alongside other sizable grants to donor-advised fund sponsors, schools, and health-related nonprofits. That pattern fits its role as a pure donor advised fund provider: the organization pools contributions, then donors recommend grants from the vehicle to nonprofit recipients. Recent grants also show repeated support for Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc. and for Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, indicating that some recipients appear more than once in the grant record. The largest checks are not limited to one field. The fund has sent seven-figure support to a Minnesota high school, six-figure support to health foundations, scholarship organizations, and community nonprofits, and multi-hundred-thousand-dollar grants to other charitable intermediaries. Across the recent list, grants are designated for general support, suggesting flexible use rather than narrow project funding. With annual grants of $15.6 million and assets of $27.4 million, Advisors Charitable Gift Fund operates at meaningful scale while routing most of its activity through donor recommendations rather than direct program delivery.
What Advisors Charitable Gift Fund Funds
Advisors Charitable Gift Fund’s grant record includes education, health, and community support. In education, it awarded $1,000,000 to Mayer Lutheran High School in Mayer, Minnesota, and also gave six-figure support to Scholarship America in Detroit in multiple years. In health, the fund made $350,000 and $90,000 grants to Doylestown Health Foundation in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and a $140,000 grant to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc. in Manhattan Beach, California. Community-serving organizations also appear, including $80,000 to Desert Cat Rescue in Thatcher, Arizona, and $70,000 to Animal Legal Defense Fund in Cotati, California. Several grants are directed to organizations that themselves operate charitable giving platforms, which shows the fund working through a broad network of nonprofit intermediaries as well as direct beneficiaries.
How Advisors Charitable Gift Fund Gives
Typical grants cluster in the low five figures, with p25 at $8,000, a median of $11,000, and p75 at $22,125. The recent record also includes occasional larger awards, including a seven-figure grant and several six-figure gifts. The same recipient can appear across multiple years: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc. received grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025, and Scholarship America appears in 2023, 2024, and 2025 as well. Advisors Charitable Gift Fund is classified as a pure DAF provider, and the grant descriptions are consistently labeled general support. Grants are routed through donor recommendations rather than direct program operations.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5.8M
Total Assets
$27M
Total Revenue
$5.3M
Total Expenses
$6.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $8K and $22K, with a median of $11K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$11K
75th Percentile
$22K
Geographic Reach
National40 states funded
About 7% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Christopher Hulse
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