 Donor advised fund. A donor advised fund is basically an account that you still have influence over. It's still money that you're managing, but when you put money into that account, that's the year that you get the deduction, the write off. That's when you get to claim the charitable donation. But you then have influence and control over when you release the money from that account to the end charity. So this is a scenario where you might say, you know what?