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Sometimes your donation receipt functions as a donor acknowledgement. However, that’s not always the case.  \nAll donors deserve to be thanked, no matter the size of their gift. Utilizing donor acknowledgment letters allows your donor to conȜirm receipt of their donation, keep a record of their contributions, and build rapport with your nonproȜit.  \nWhile we recommend sending donation acknowledgment letters to all of your donors, you are legally obligated to send documentation to donors who have given a gift of $250 or more. The IRS requires nonproȜit organizations to provide a formal acknowledgment letter to these donors for tax purposes.  \nWhy should you acknowledge your donors?  \nBesides the legal requirements, donors shouldn’t wonder if their donation was received. Check and see if your email marketing tool or nonproȜit CRM software makes it possible to automate your acknowledgments. You can make this process as easy and impactfulas possible by creating an email template that sends out conȜirmation of the donation as soon as the donor’s payment has processed on your donation page.  \nYou should also be able to segment your donors into different lists based on different actions the donor has taken. For example, you could set up an automatic report that pulls a list of donors who have given more than $250 to your nonproȜit. You could then pass that list along to a board member to make personal phone calls to acknowledge the donors’ gifts.  \nDo you have to send an acknowledgment letter for every donation?  \nYou’ll likely have some donors that make multiple contributions of $250 or more throughout the year. So, do you need to send multiple acknowledgment letters to the same donor?  \nAccording to the IRS, you can choose to send an acknowledgment letter for every contribution or you can send one acknowledgement for all of the donor’s contributions in one year. It’s up to you which method you choose.  \nWe recommend sending a year-end acknowledgement letter to your donors even if you sent separate ones for each of their donations. Why? It’s the time your donors will be collecting the documents they need to Ȝile their taxes. If they made 3 or 4 contributions throughout the year, they may have a hard time shuȝling through their old mailand email to Ȝind them. That means they may reach out to you and request a complete summary of their charitable contributions for the  \nyear.  \nIt will save time for both you and your donor to go ahead and plan to send out a year-end acknowledgment letter or tax summary letter to all your donors. It’s even better if your nonproȜit CRM allows your donors to do this on-demand. For example, with Kindful’s donor accounts, donors can download a PDF copy of contributions from the year in one click.  \nWhen is the deadline to send donation acknowledgments?  \nTechnically, the IRS doesn’t set a deadline for sending donation acknowledgments. But that doesn’t mean you have as long as you want to send them out. Most organizations aim to send their donation acknowledgments letters by January 31 of the year following the donation.  \nThere are two factors to keep in mind when it comes to your timing. One, all of your donors will need their tax acknowledgments before the federal tax Ȝiling deadline. For donations made in 2020, the federal tax deadline in the United States is April 15, 2021. While some donors may get extensions to Ȝile their taxes, you don’t want to count on all your donors getting that extra time.  \nMost of your donors will Ȝile their taxes before the deadline, some as early as February.","cbCaitpqkGJqHrUo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitpqkGJqHrUo","pdf",267077,10,"English","# Donation Acknowledgment Letter\n## What is a donation acknowledgment letter?\n## Why should you acknowledge your donors?\n## Do you have to send an acknowledgment letter for every donation?\n## When is the deadline to send donation acknowledgments?\n## How do you acknowledge a donation?\n## Bottom line","[{\"question\":\"What is a donation acknowledgment letter used for?\",\"answer\":\"A donation acknowledgment letter documents a donor’s charitable gift and confirms receipt. It may be served by a donation receipt in some cases, but not always.\"},{\"question\":\"Are nonprofits legally required to send acknowledgment letters?\",\"answer\":\"Yes. 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