Jonas also mentioned to me that EA Funds is considering offering Donor-Advised Funds that could grant to individuals as long as there’s a clear charitable benefit. If implemented, this would also allow donors to provide tax-deductible support to individuals.
This is pretty exciting to me. Without going into too much detail, I expect to have a large amount of money to donate in the near future, and LTF is basically the best option I know of (in terms of giving based on what I most want to give to) for the bulk of that money short of having the ability to do exactly this. I’d still want LTF as a fall back for funds I couldn’t figure out how to better allocate myself, but the need for tax deductibility limits my options today (though, yes, there are donor lotteries).
Interested in talking more about this – sent you a PM!
EDIT: I should mention that this is generally pretty hard to implement, so there might be a large fee on such grants, and it might take a long time until we can offer it.
This is pretty exciting to me. Without going into too much detail, I expect to have a large amount of money to donate in the near future, and LTF is basically the best option I know of (in terms of giving based on what I most want to give to) for the bulk of that money short of having the ability to do exactly this. I’d still want LTF as a fall back for funds I couldn’t figure out how to better allocate myself, but the need for tax deductibility limits my options today (though, yes, there are donor lotteries).
Interested in talking more about this – sent you a PM!
EDIT: I should mention that this is generally pretty hard to implement, so there might be a large fee on such grants, and it might take a long time until we can offer it.