Donor Advised Funds make charitable giving enjoyable and easy. A QCD is also relatively simple logistically but is more cumbersome than the Donor Advised Fund. You (or your advisor) will need to ensure there is sufficient cash in the account to cover any checks you write. Additionally, receivin...
Most of the assets in prominent donor-advised funds are intangible and illiquid complex assets, such as real estate, Bitcoin, and art. They are valued on acost basis, meaning the price at which they were purchased. Any sale after an appreciation in their prices would incur a capital gains ...