I'd like to make a donation to a private business so that they can donate it charitably to individual customers (at their discretion). Is there a way that I can do this and still deduct the donation from my taxes?

There is a grocery store in my hometown that still operates on the 'account' system for some customers. So if you're a regular, you can open an account and the cashier bills your order to your account then you pay at the end of the month.

What I'm planning to do is to open an account and prefund it with $1,000. Then have the cashiers use that account to pay the extra when people are short on their tab. (It is an 'everybody knows everybody' type of town, so it will be pretty easy for the cashiers to evaluate who needs it. I'm not worried about the plan being ineffective at actually helping people).

Is there any way I can deduct this from my taxes? What's actually happening with the donation is the same as if a 501c3 were involved, but there just isn't one involved.

Submitted June 27, 2019 at 09:30PM by PM_ME_LIBERTARIANISM https://ift.tt/2RJJ3KS