Donating a car to charity?
December 29, 2009 by admin
Filed under Car Donation QA
What charities in the Baltimore area accept used (VERY used!) cars as donations? I would like to give mine directly to a charity (and choose the one) rather than giving it to some fundraising middleman agency.
Edit: Yes, Maciek, that’s why I asked about charites to which one can give a car directly. The people you described are what I meant by “some fundraising middleman agency.”
Edit 2: Thanks for the tip, Arbella, but, yes, that’s why I said that I was looking for a psecific scharity to give the car to, not “some fundraising middleman.”
Edit 2: Thanks for the tip, Arbella, but, yes, that’s why I said that I was looking for a specific scharity to give the car to, not “some fundraising middleman.”
Charity of cars is the stupidest thing i ever heard what i think is that people who take these cars the get good money for it and only give some to charity if there is one.
The Diabetes Association and the Kidney Foundation accept cars as donations. The problem has been that they sell your car immediately to a company that hauls it off. The Kidney Foundation gets only$75 and the hauler gets all the rest. It doesn’t seem fair.
The best thing you can do is to sell the car and donate the entire proceeds in cash. That will really help. They also changed the IRS rule about deducting the value of your car on your Form 1040. If the charity only got $75, that is all you can now deduct.