Most donations are spent once and gone. With Evergive, a single gift keeps giving - potentially for decades.

When someone donates through Evergive, that money isn't handed over and forgotten. It is received by our DAF partner, The Forever Trust, where it's invested alongside other donations. The original gift stays intact and the returns - the growth generated over time - flow out to charities as grants. In theory, a donation made today could still be supporting good causes long into the future.

This is the fundamental difference between Evergive and a standard donation. When you give to a charity directly, that money is received, spent and gone. It does enormous good in the moment, but once it's used, it's used. Evergive works differently. Rather than passing the donation straight to a charity, it becomes part of a managed pool of charitable assets - invested, grown and paid out over time. The charity doesn't just benefit once. It benefits again and again, from the same original gift.

For charities, this changes the nature of donor relationships in a meaningful way. Rather than relying on repeated campaigns and appeals to bring donors back, a single donation through Evergive creates an ongoing source of support. Smaller, everyday donations - the kind that might otherwise feel insignificant - become part of something much larger and longer-lasting when they're pooled together and invested.

Grants are made periodically by the trustees of The Forever Trust. When setting up their fund, donors nominate the charities they'd like to benefit, and those nominations are taken into account when grant decisions are made. As with all Donor Advised Funds, final grant decisions rest with the trustees, in accordance with charity law and the Trust's governing documents. This ensures that all grants meet the legal requirements for charitable giving and that the fund is managed responsibly for the long term.

The result is a model that works better for everyone. Donors get the satisfaction of knowing their gift carries on working long after it's been made, charities receive a more sustainable, ongoing stream of support and the impact of every donation is multiplied simply by putting charitable money to work in the way that endowments have done for centuries.