For Donors

Giving Tuesday 2026 is December 1. How to vet a charity in ten minutes, what a matching gift really means, the giving-day scams to avoid and the receipts to keep.

94% of large companies match employee donations and only 21% of employees ever claim one. Verified 2026 caps, ratios and deadlines for 17 major employers, plus the widely quoted statistic that has no source.

The 2026 QCD limit is $111,000 per person. Here is who qualifies, which IRAs work, the rules that disqualify a gift, and how to report a QCD on Form 1040 line 4c.

December 31, 2026 is the deadline, but almost no gift arrives the day you send it. The 2026 cut-off date for every way of giving: checks and the changed USPS postmark rule, card and text gifts, stock and mutual funds, IRA qualified charitable distributions, donor-advised funds, payroll, vehicles and crypto.

Three charitable giving rules changed for tax year 2026: a new $1,000/$2,000 deduction if you don’t itemize, a new 0.5%-of-AGI floor if you do, and a new cap on top-bracket deductions. What each one does, verified against the statute and IRS releases.