About Daffy Charitable Fund
Help people be more generous, more often by making donor-advised funds accessible, low-cost, and easy to use.
Focus Areas
EducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHomelessness & HousingMental HealthInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsSocial AdvocacyDisaster ReliefCriminal JusticeYouthScience & Technology
Who They Fund
About Daffy Charitable Fund
A defining feature of Daffy Charitable Fund is the way it channels large general-support grants to donor-advised and philanthropic intermediaries alongside a wide mix of operating grants to nonprofits. In the latest year on file, the fund supported Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund with $3,345,997 for mission support, and it also gave $1,000,000 to Silicon Valley Community Foundation for the same purpose. That pattern fits a pure DAF provider that is designed to make giving accessible, low-cost, and easy to use. The recent grant list shows a funder that backs religious organizations, education, health, environment, human services, and social advocacy, often through unrestricted support. Recipients range from faith-based groups such as Muslim Community of Folsom and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to mission-driven nonprofits like The Earth Species Project and The Good Food Institute. The scale is substantial: annual grants given total $45.5 million, and the foundation’s asset base is $334.5 million. Across the list, grant sizes vary from mid-thousands to multimillion-dollar awards, with several gifts above $500,000 and many smaller operating grants as well.
What Daffy Charitable Fund Funds
Education appears in grants to institutions and educational nonprofits. Daffy Charitable Fund gave $586,081 to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University for general support of mission, and $350,000 to Wake Forest University for the same purpose. Faith-based giving is another visible lane. The fund provided $406,000 to CenterPointe Church and $221,675 to Chabad House Bowery Inc, both listed as general support of mission, while earlier grants also included religious-mission support to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Campus Crusade for Christ Inc. The fund also supports science, food systems, and animal-related work. It gave $365,500 to The Good Food Institute and $1,005,000 to The Earth Species Project, each for general support of mission. In health and service-oriented work, the list includes Adventist HealthCare Inc and Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions, both funded with unrestricted support.
How Daffy Charitable Fund Gives
Typical gifts cluster in the five-figure range: p25 is $7,785, median grant size is $10,600, and p75 is $23,412. The recent list also shows a small number of much larger awards, including multimillion-dollar grants to charitable-giving intermediaries. Grants appear to recur across years for some recipients: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund received support in both 2023 and 2025, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints appears in both 2024 and 2025. Daffy Charitable Fund is a pure DAF provider, and the grants shown are overwhelmingly general support of mission rather than project-specific awards.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$35.1M
Total Assets
$334.5M
Total Revenue
$197.2M
Total Expenses
$40.2M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $8K and $23K, with a median of $11K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$11K
75th Percentile
$23K
Geographic Reach
National48 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Adam Nash
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