In the past year, we have seen countless predictions about how AI will change everything from manufacturing to entertainment. Last year, Americans gave over $557 billion to charity, and the majority of that giving ($370 billion) was donated by individuals — not foundations or corporations. But how will AI affect one of the most basic moral acts of 60 million American households every year?

At Daffy, we pride ourselves on bringing modern technology to the age old problem of inspiring generosity, with a simple mission to help people be more generous, more often.

Today, we are announcing a suite of AI-enabled features and capabilities that just were not possible even a few years ago. This reflects our growing conviction that AI will enable one of our best, and most human traits — our willingness to voluntarily support others in need.

Quick Donate: Give When Inspired

Wealthy donors have always had philanthropic advisors, assistants, and foundations to help them give. But for the 60 million American households who give to charity every year, they mostly get direct mail, credit card forms, and minimal communication.

This is a problem, because the friction introduced by outdated technology impacts giving. 79% of donors who visit a donation page never complete their gift, and 60% who abandon the process say they intend to return but rarely do.

Daffy’s new Quick Donate leverages modern AI platforms to make personalized giving as simple as asking.

With all due respect to Arthur C. Clarke, there is no magic here. Quick Donate leverages the simple insight that most donations only require a few key data points — choosing a charity, time and frequency, and specifying an amount.

To streamline this, Daffy built a custom AI-powered parsing system that converts free text input into structured donation data. Members can speak or type naturally while our system extracts and maps details like charity, amount, EIN, frequency, and notes.

Our goal was simple. If a human can understand the text, Daffy can too.

As a result, Quick Donate not only handles relatively vague requests made in plain English, but also performs tasks that are surprisingly personalized:

• Make a $1,000 donation to Second Harvest every year on Thanksgiving
• Give $25 to the Boys & Girls Club every month
• Send $180 to my synagogue
• Give 10% of my fund to St. Jude
• Donate $100 to my daughter's school
• Make a $100 donation to charity: water and make it anonymous

Quick Donate leverages Groq’s unique language processors to provide natural language processing for fast, sub-second parsing. As concepts are identified, Daffy’s friendly user experience shares not only its interpretation of our members’ requests, but also provides relevant suggestions, such as adding a public note, making the donation recurring, or scheduling for a specific occasion.

Additionally, Daffy incorporates contextual signals—such as a user’s donation history, fund balance, and preferences—to further personalize and optimize the experience. This ensures Quick Donate is not just fast but also intuitive and context-aware. For example, donations like "send 10% of my balance" are possible, or arbitrates like holidays.

If you are inspired to give $1,000 to your local food bank every year on Thanksgiving, technology should not get in the way of your generosity. It should enable it.

AI Will Revolutionize The Entire Philanthropy Stack

When Daffy set out a little over three years ago to reinvent a modern platform for giving, technology played a key role in enabling our strategy. Unlike most donor-advised funds, Daffy does not charge fees based on the assets held by the fund. Instead, it offers a flat-rate memberships based on each member’s giving needs, starting at just $3/mo.

This type of pricing would not be possible without the incredible power of modern AI platforms. AI already powers key features for our members:

• Quick Donate. Give whenever you are inspired, without tapping buttons or filling out forms, just by typing or speaking.
• Personalized Thank You Notes. The best charities send out personalized thank you notes, but few have the scale to do this consistently. When you donate on Daffy, you always get back a personalized thank you for your generosity.
• Campaign Creation. Running a successful matching campaign is difficult for almost any charity, and sometimes the hardest part is just creating the content for the campaign. With AI, Daffy is able to assist our members in creating compelling fundraisers that effortlessly combine details about the campaign itself and the charities supported.
• Donor Operations. Most DAFs struggle to integrate the variety of incomplete public & private information about charities online. With AI, not only can we easily integrate all of this information, but we can also frame and highlight issues for our team to investigate.

The Future of Giving is Here

Giving is a profoundly human impulse, and technology offers us the ability to help us be better versions of ourselves by elevating our ability to be more generous. The philanthropic sector doesn’t need flashier tech—it needs smarter, simpler tools that make generosity part of everyday life.

AI offers the ability to not only reward our positive instincts, but also the ability to facilitate giving at exceptionally low cost. Both, of course, translate into more money for the causes and organizations that our members support.

Everyone deserves to give like they have a philanthropic advisor, no matter the amount.