Curious how everyone handles payments made by two entities for one contribution which has taxable benefits. We had a sponsor for a special event pay for the charitable contribution amount with their corporate foundation check and the taxable benefit amount with a corporate check. I know that the tax receipt needs to state the amount of the contribution and benefits, but what to do in this case? And when we go to report on that entity and want to show the full amount, how best to track in Tessitura.
Maureen - Wexner Center for the Arts
Good afternoon Maureen,
In the past, in such a situation, the two gift portions would be coded to the responsible parties, and then Soft Credits would be used to link everything back together.
So, in your scenario suggested, it would work as follows:
Between the two portions of the gift, the total amount contributed would show up on both records. It would take a little extra work in an annual giving summary to make sure that gifts on two separate accounts are recognized in a single letter (if you choose to do it that way), but it ends up being a pretty clean way to track what's charitable and what had goods and services involved.
Hope this helps!
Thank you,
Brian
This is very helpful - thank you!