Daffodil

DAF infrastructure that grows with your program.

Operate a modern DAF program — donor experience, grant operations, and impact reporting — without building the stack yourself.

Trusted by nonprofits and partners including

How Daffodil works for DAF sponsors

Give donors a modern DAF they actually want to use — recommend grants, follow impact, and stay engaged without extra staff time.

Process recommendations, disburse grants, and keep a complete record for compliance — one system for program and back office.

Impact streams show fund holders what their dollars accomplished. That visibility is how you keep the next generation of donors.

Roll up activity and outcomes across the whole DAF program, or drill into a single fund, cause, or time period.

Staff, reviewers, and leadership each get the right view. Access controls and audit history are built in.

Platform features

Research nonprofits, track impact, manage giving, and collaborate with your team. Everything in one place, for everyone.

Give through a DAF: Open a donor-advised fund and grant to any verified U.S. nonprofit, tax-efficiently, with a full audit trail.
Multiple DAFs, one account: Spin up separate funds for different purposes: cause areas, time horizons, or initiatives, all under one login.
Invite your team: Add colleagues, advisors, or family members with the right level of access for each.
Curate nonprofit lists: Build and share curated lists of nonprofits, funders, and causes for research, reporting, or collective decision-making.
Real-time impact streams: Live updates from the nonprofits you support, surfaced based on your giving or areas of interest. Zero added work for the orgs involved.
Smart surveying: Deploy surveys for deeper insights. We monitor and meter every request, and auto-answer where we already have the data, so we never overburden nonprofits.
Bring your own impact framework: Already have priorities or an impact thesis? Bring it. Daffodil maps your framework to real outcomes data automatically.
Benchmark across nonprofits: Compare programs on qualitative and quantitative data, including 990 financials and peer outcomes, before you give.

AI features

Every Daffodil Discovery account includes purpose-built AI agents for research, reporting, discovery, and giving.

Giving planner agent: Describe your giving goals. The agent drafts a plan, proposes organizations that fit your giving goals, and adjusts as your priorities evolve.
Smart search: Describe what you're looking for in plain language. Daffodil maps your request into a multi-parameter query across 1.4M+ U.S. nonprofits and returns a ranked shortlist.
Nonprofit research agent: Instant AI-assisted due diligence on any nonprofit. Outcomes data, 990 financials, funder relationships, program details, and benchmarking in one place.
AI-managed survey deployment: The AI deploys surveys, routes responses, and drafts follow-ups automatically, so you get deeper insights without manual overhead.
Impact framework adaptation: Already have an impact framework? The AI maps your criteria to nonprofit outcomes data and keeps it current as new information comes in.
Access anywhere: Use Daffodil AI in-app, over email with Daphne, or directly inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini via MCP, wherever you already work.

Daffodil is free to start and built for donors, grantmakers, advisors, and nonprofits.