When your yearly giving lands just under the itemizing line, it adds nothing extra. Bunch two years of donations into a single year to itemize big, then take the standard deduction the next.
See how it works through one simple example.
Spread thin, your yearly gifts may never clear the standard deduction, so they add nothing.
Bunch two years of donations into one year, pushing your itemized total well over the line.
You itemize big that year, take the standard deduction the next, and deduct thousands more across the two years.
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The honest version.
To push one year's itemized total clearly above the standard deduction so the gifts actually count.
A donor-advised fund lets you take the deduction now and grant the money out over time.
You simply take the standard deduction that year.
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