Year-end giving season is officially here — and based on what we’re seeing across the sector, 2025 is shaping up to be one of the strongest years ever for donor-advised fund (DAF) activity. During our recent webinar, “Maximize DAF Giving This Year-End”, we dug into the trends, strategies, and sample campaigns nonprofits can use right now to capture more DAF dollars before December 31st.

After sharing the nonprofit winners of the first ever DAF Day Awards earlier this month, we’re now excited to share the DAF winners! We’re thrilled to recognize four DAF sponsors that fully embraced the national holiday for DAF giving, testing out new avenues to engage their communities and grow their programs.

Not only did thousands of organizations join the DAF Day movement this year, there were also hundreds that shared their promotional activity for consideration in the first-ever DAF Day Awards. Below you’ll find a summary of the award winners across all 5 nonprofit categories and the full list of finalists’ promotional assets that is avalable to review.

Updated 10/30/25 with even more DAF providers to help your organization better manage and improve your DAF data! Collecting and organizing DAF data is a rapidly growing challenge for nonprofits. Managing DAF donations requires nonprofits to constantly align and realign data from multiple portals to ensure accurate uploads into CRMs and finance databases. Missing donor details and delayed gift deliveries only add to the complexity, making an already intricate process even more