Using other person's personal check for charitable contribution

wkhan299 · 2007-03-19T15:12:07+00:00

I have a question on charitable contribution, hopefullysomeone in this group know the answer. I am with a charitable organization and have been donatingby writing my Contributor ID on my personal check. Theorganization uses the Contributor ID to identify me as thedonar and sends me an annual tax receipt for me to file myincomes tax and itemize the charitable contribution in mytax returns. The question is, what if I use a friend's personal check(instead of mine) when making the contribution. I can writemy Contributor ID on the friend's personal check telling theorganization that the donation is from mine (and not from myfriend) even though I am using someone else's check. If the organization simply records donations based on theContributor ID, then I would receive the annual tax receiptfor tax deduction. But my friend now also has a cancelledcheck that he can use as "dated bank record" for filing taxdeduction in his tax return. Is this a loophole? This obviously is wrong/illegal. Must itbe a process/procedure of charitable organizations to verifyor match Contribution ID and personal check before acceptingdonations or issuing tax receipts? Appreciate any inputs. Thanks.

Mar 19, 2007 21 Replies

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Seth Breidbart 19 years ago

Why did it look like money you collected? Didn't you just write your own check? Did you deposit a bunch of $10 checks from your neighbors the same week?

They're going to try tricks like that anyway.

Did you check on how much of the money they got, and how much they paid the solicitation firm? Seth

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Seth Breidbart 19 years ago

No, but being 1500 miles away from my bank until the following week (year) would be. Seth

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