Any other charity donations from banks or credit cards etc? besides:
Ablebanking 1.7% and $ 25 to charity
I asked at ablebanking.com for additional ways to earn $ for the charity of my choice. They replied:
ablebanking.com will donate twenty five dollars to a charity of your choice when you open an account.
"We give you $25 (of our money!) to give to any charity you choose. (Must be a 501(c)3)
We help pet owners with the cost of spaying and neutering their animals in order to help curb animal over-population.
We help pet owners with other unexpected medical costs of illness or injury to their pets.
We help shelter pets with medications, surgeries, treatments and lab test that would not be covered by the shelter’s general budget.
We help potential adopters take home animals from the shelter by providing assistance with costs associated with adoption, health care, etc.
If anyone opens an account & uses my name on the form (reply here & I will send you my name), Friends of the Shelter will get $25.
Paypal ran this year a promotion (Seize the Seasons)where they processed donations free, and added 1% (which offer expired Dec. 31, 2018). A link for the 2017 offer is Donate with PayPal Giving Fund (goes to my favorite charity) which I found to work this year (2018) also.The charity reported a E-mail notified them of the donations. A 2017 link is Donate with PayPal Giving Fund. The link appears to still function, although there is no mention of the extra 1% (and I have not used it for 2019).
If you make substantial donations, this can be a useful technique.
Ask. Legally your donation is to the Paypal Giving Fund, which passes it on to your charity of choice. If your employer has a list, see who is on it. If they match all 503(b) ones you are probably covered.
Does the receipt have an EIN on it? Is it the EIN of the ultimate charity or the PayPal fund? If the latter, does the charity know who the donation came from in order to issue their own acknowledgement letter/receipt?