Every organization in America that reports a donor-advised fund program to the IRS — 3,078 of them — with assets, grants, and payout rates drawn straight from their Form 990 filings.
The median DAF sponsor pays out 12.5% of assets a year. The sector reports 20.4% in aggregate. Both are true. The aggregate is pulled upward by a handful of pass-through platforms that hold almost nothing and move everything — Blackbaud Giving Fund granted 947% of its assets, PayPal Charitable 438%. Strip those out and the typical sponsor looks nothing like the average one.
Ranked by grants paid out. Sort any column. 2,873 of the 3,078 sponsors have full profile pages; the rest reported no financial detail.
| Sponsor | DAF assets | Grants | Payout | Accounts | Avg account |
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How current is this? Each sponsor is shown at its most recent available Form 990, and those years differ. Of the 2,873 with profile pages, 343 report fiscal 2024, 1,675 report 2023, and 407 report 2022 — so roughly one page in six carries figures that are two or more years old.
Coverage of recent years is thin by design of the IRS pipeline, not by omission here: 2019: 1,983 · 2020: 2,175 · 2021: 2,185 · 2022: 2,155 · 2023: 1,968 · 2024: 343 organizations filed in each year. NCCS, whose parsed data this is built on, advises that “the most recent year in the panel should always be treated as a partial year, since it can take two to three years for the bulk of returns to be processed and released.”
The totals above therefore blend years — $222.38B of the assets shown come from 2023 filings, $77.75B from 2022, and only $3.31B from 2024. Do not read them as a point-in-time snapshot of the sector, and do not compare year over year across the whole index. Per-sponsor trends on the individual pages are sound, because each compares an organization to itself.
A note on the account numbers. Many organizations enter dollar amounts in the “number of funds” box on Schedule D. Summed as filed, the sector appears to hold 36.2 million DAF accounts; after flagging implausible entries it is 4.8 million. Sponsors whose entry fails that check are marked not reliable rather than silently included.
Full methodology, sources and disclosures. Source: IRS Form 990 Schedule D Part I and Schedule I, tax years 2019–2024, via the National Center for Charitable Statistics parsed e-file tables. Payout rate is DAF grants divided by DAF assets at year end. Figures reflect each sponsor’s most recent available filing, so years differ between organizations — see the note above on how current the data is.