#HalfMyDAF
More than $326 billion is sitting in donor advised funds (DAFs.) Our goal at #HalfMyDAF is to inspire more giving with $2 million in matching funds for 2026.
When DAF holders commit to spend down at least half of the money in their DAF by the end of October 2026, the grants they make the recipient organizations eligible for matching grants from #HalfMyDAF. Twice a year, we host a drawing, in which grants are randomly selected to to receive dollar-for-dollar matches up to $5,000 – with four lucky nonprofits receiving matching grants of up to $25,000.
The deadlines for nominations are June 18, 2026 for the spring drawing and October 8, 2026 for the fall drawing, with grant recipients announced the following week.
Jennifer and David Risher launched #HalfMyDAF in 2020 to inspire more giving from donor advised funds. Over the last six years, #HalfMyDAF partners and hundreds of DAF donors have made thousands of grants and moved more than $97 million from DAFs to nonprofits across the country. Donors are excited about the possibility of getting matches and have told us, “This is the nudge I needed” and “I love how easy it is to make my money go further.” Nonprofits are grateful to have a tool to encourage DAF donors to give that gives them the possibility of receiving additional unrestricted funding.
In addition to the Rishers, Laura & Greg Spivy, Stasia Obremskey, and Brighton Jones have contributed to the multi-million dollar matching pool. If you’d like to contribute this year, please contact us at contact@halfmydaf.com.
Please take a look at the instructions for donors and nonprofits and get inspired by the list of grants made in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Thank you for being part of the #HalfMyDAF movement and putting charitable dollars to work — now.
The Funders behind #HalfMyDAF
Jennifer and David Risher
Jennifer is the author of "We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth" that tells her story of getting lucky and explores the hidden impact of wealth on identity, relationships, and sense of place in the world. She believes staying silent around topics like philanthropy creates problems for both those who have money and for our country as a whole. Money shouldn’t be a taboo subject; silence perpetuates the status quo and keeps us from learning from each other.
David is the CEO of Lyft. A former Microsoft and Amazon executive, David co-founded and lead Worldreader, a nonprofit whose mission is to get children reading so they can reach their potential. As CEO of Worldreader since its founding in 2010, David helped over 21 million people read around the world using digital technology. As Lyft’s CEO, David hopes to help millions of drivers earn billions of dollars and connect riders with the people and experiences they love.
Laura and Greg Spivy
Laura is a philanthropist and leader in non profit education, with over fifteen years working on public and private school boards and a strong focus on education as an equalizer. Laura believes in the transformative power of education for all children, and that it is the right of every child to have access to an education that allows them to realize their true potential. For Laura, there is no question that education builds stronger families and more engaged local communities that in turn build a better world for all of us.
Following a 30-year career in the finance industry, most recently as a partner at ValueAct Capital, Greg is now the Board Chair of Matriculate, which assists high-achieving, low-income kids in navigating the path to our nation’s top colleges. He also invests privately, as Spivy Private Capital, in direct angel investment opportunities in the sports and gaming sectors, as well as in a diverse group of leading investment funds.
Brighton Jones
Brighton Jones is a nationally-recognized leader in financial wellbeing. Charles Brighton and Jon Jones founded the firm in 2000 to enable families to align their wealth, passions, and purpose, and pursue a richer life. Today, Brighton Jones is one of the fastest-growing Registered Independent Advisors in the U.S., with more than 5,000 clients and $30 billion in assets under advisement. Brighton Jones measures success not only by scale, but by the opportunities they create to help individuals and families achieve their personal and social impact goals.
James Slavet
James Slavet, venture partner and advisor at Greylock, is the founder of the Solid Foundation, a philanthropic organization that makes charitable grants and investments to compound human potential. This includes supporting nonprofits and startups that leverage technology, and mission-driven VC funds. Solid backs entrepreneurs who foster kids well-being or unlock economic mobility for people facing barriers to employment. The team is also a resource to those in the tech community interested in social impact giving and investing.
The Amalgamated Foundation
The Amalgamated Foundation’s mission is to redefine philanthropy by empowering activism, harnessing generosity, and leveraging technology. Like #HalfMyDAF, Amalgamated Foundation is laser-focused on moving money quickly to the nonprofits that urgently need it, and they’ve successfully mobilized hundreds of millions of dollars in charitable giving. The foundation was the first-ever DAF provider to enact a 10% payout pledge, encouraging donors to make annual grants of at least 10% of their fund.
As part of this partnership, Amalgamated will house #HalfMyDAF’s Donor Advised Fund in conjunction with Amalgamated Bank, which for over 100 years has been the trusted financial institution for consumers focused on what their money does in the world. The Foundation is also providing matching-fund support for #HalfMyDAF.
Stasia Obremskey and Dan Carroll
Stasia is the Managing Director of RH Capital Funds an impact venture capital fund of Rhia Ventures where she is responsible for investing in innovations in women’s reproductive health. She joined Rhia Ventures after more than twenty-five years of experience as an interim CFO for non-profit organizations and start-up companies and an impact investor and philanthropist in women’s reproductive health. She holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Stasia is a founding member of Maverick Collective, an initiative of PSI.
Dan is a Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Brooklands Capital Strategies, a financial advisory firm based in San Francisco. Prior to forming Brooklands, he was a Partner of TPG Capital, joining the firm in 1995 when he co-founded TPG’s Asian investing business. Dan holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He serves on the Boards of Reading Partners and the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley.