If you hold a DAF at ALSAC/St. Jude Children's Hospital, United Way Worldwide, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Schwab Charitable Fund, Feeding America, CAF America, Direct Relief, Salvation Army, American Online Giving Foundation, Good 360, Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, Chicago Community Trust, Goodwill Industries International, The Y, American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Harvard University, ImpactAssets, or any qualified US sponsor, you can now recommend a grant to RFLD directly — no fiscal sponsorship, no expenditure responsibility, fully tax-deductible.
In 2025, RFLD received NGOsource 501(c)(3) Equivalency Determination — a vetted certification that RFLD meets the standards of a US public charity under IRS rules. For you as a DAF donor, this changes what's possible in three practical ways.
Your DAF sponsor can process the grant to RFLD directly. No fiscal sponsor needed. No intermediary fees. The grant lands with us.
Your DAF sponsor doesn't need to run special international-grant compliance. NGOsource ED satisfies the IRS requirement for "equivalency."
Your original contribution to the DAF is deductible in the year you made it, as with any US charity. DAF mechanics are unchanged.
Not sure what NGOsource ED means or why it matters? Quick explainer below →
DAF sponsors handle recommendations slightly differently, but the information you enter is the same. Select your DAF sponsor below for the specific instructions. For any US sponsor not listed — community foundations, employer-linked DAFs, faith-based DAFs — the generic instructions apply.
Largest US DAF sponsor. Log in to your Giving Account at fidelitycharitable.org.
From your Giving Account dashboard, choose Recommend a Grant.
In the charity search field, try these search terms in this order:
Réseau des Femmes Leaders pour le DéveloppementWomen Leaders Network for DevelopmentRFLD BeninIf none of the search terms return us, skip to Step 4 — that means we're in Fidelity's "add new charity" path, and we'll work through it together.
Look for the Benin address and the NGOsource / equivalency note. Select the organisation.
Fidelity's international charity search can take 2–5 business days for new additions. You have two options:
If Fidelity asks for a grant purpose, suggested language:
If you'd like us to thank you personally, select "Share my name and contact information with RFLD." If you prefer anonymous giving, that's equally fine — the grant still arrives with the same tax treatment.
Typical processing time: 3–10 business days. International grants may take longer on first occurrence but are straightforward on repeat grants.
Log in to your Schwab Charitable account at schwabcharitable.org.
From your dashboard, click Grant, then Recommend a Grant.
Schwab uses the same NGOsource equivalency system. Search:
RFLDReseau des Femmes Leaders (without accents also works)Women Leaders Network Development BeninCall Schwab Charitable at 1-800-746-6216 and request an equivalency-determination review. Mention RFLD holds current NGOsource ED.
Suggested purpose language is in the Fidelity tab above — identical.
Log in to your Vanguard Charitable account at vanguardcharitable.org.
Select Grant from your account menu, then Recommend a grant to a new charity.
Vanguard accepts equivalency-determined international charities via NGOsource. Use the same search terms.
Call Vanguard Charitable at 1-888-383-4483. Mention that RFLD is NGOsource-certified.
Vanguard will process the grant within 5–10 business days for an international recipient on first grant, faster on subsequent grants.
ImpactAssets is the DAF sponsor built for impact-first donors. Log in at impactassets.org.
ImpactAssets donor-advisors commonly fund international feminist and climate work directly. The system supports NGOsource equivalency routing.
Search for RFLD, or if not yet indexed, submit a new-charity request. ImpactAssets actively reviews international charity additions and often processes NGOsource-certified orgs the same week.
ImpactAssets donor-advisors often set up recurring recommendations. If you're moved to give more than once, a multi-year recommendation allows RFLD to plan programmes more confidently.
The process is essentially identical at every qualified US DAF sponsor — community foundations, faith-based DAFs, Morgan Stanley GIFT, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation, and many others.
If your sponsor has an online portal, search RFLD. If your sponsor works via a named advisor, email or call them with the recommendation details.
Any sponsor's compliance team will ask for verification of charitable status. Give them:
NGOsource ED means the IRS treats the grant as a domestic grant to a US public charity. No expenditure responsibility. No additional reporting. If your sponsor is unfamiliar, refer them to NGOsource.
Every field below can be pasted directly into a DAF recommendation form. If a field below is not requested by your sponsor, skip it.
This information is current as of April 2026. For the latest version, visit rflgd.org/give-through-your-daf.
NGOsource is a programme of TechSoup and the Council on Foundations. Since 2013, it has provided Equivalency Determination (ED) services that vet non-US charities against US IRS standards for 501(c)(3) public charity equivalence. An ED certificate confirms that a non-US organisation meets those standards and is safe for US private foundations and DAFs to fund as if it were a domestic public charity.
The US IRS doesn't grant 501(c)(3) status to non-US organisations. NGOsource ED is the recognised workaround: a rigorous, repeatable verification that satisfies the IRS's "equivalency" test. In 2025, RFLD was certified after full review of our governance, financial controls, operations, and public-benefit activities.
Your DAF grant joins institutional funding from foundations that conduct rigorous due diligence before making any grant. RFLD's current institutional donors include:
US-based feminist funder; multi-year support to RFLD's feminist movement work.
David & Lucile Packard Foundation; SRHR and Ouagadougou Partnership funder.
Additional institutional partners include GIZ/BMZ SEA-T, Sida, AmplifyChange, FJS, and Expertise France.
RFLD moved $1.77M through its programmes in 2025, with 85% reaching field activities. The WAFFF Fund re-granted €250,000 to 10 francophone feminist organisations the same year. Here is the range of what a single DAF grant can unlock.
Emergency legal support or safe relocation for a single Women Human Rights Defender under threat in francophone West Africa.
One full Upendo grant through the Africa Portfolio Grant programme — funding a grassroots feminist collective for 6 months of protection, advocacy, or organising work.
A full Agojie institutional-strengthening grant — audit readiness, digital security, PSEA systems, and internal governance for one grassroots feminist organisation for a full year.
Scales our own field capacity, extends WAFFF Fund re-granting to additional grassroots partners, or seeds multi-year advocacy on SRHR, civic space, or climate justice.
Unrestricted grants enable RFLD to allocate where the need is most acute in the moment. Restricted grants can be directed to specific programmes (WAFFF, BRAVE, PAWELE, or Africa Portfolio Grant) with a named purpose on the recommendation.
Unrestricted gifts offer the most flexibility — they allow us to allocate to the most pressing need in the moment.
If your DAF sponsor needs additional verification — ED certificate, governance documents, audit history, or anything else — we can send it directly to their compliance team within one business day.
Responses within 1 business day. For DAF compliance queries, please reference "DAF ED verification" in your subject line.