There has been inconsistency with the rules for entering DAF gifts historically. @RLewis @DBautista-WMF and I just sat down to decide on what this should be moving forward and we reached the conclusion that if a Fund name is present we should enter the gift onto the fund record and link the individual (instead of the previous way we had set up the Fidelity import which was enter the gift on the Individual and link the Fund).
I want to check first to see how this would work so I can start rebuilding the Fidelity import mapping template. My main question is around the dedupe rules for the main record and the linked record. Here is how I see it:
- We would use any address information provided in the file to match to Civi record using Org Name + Address - If match is not present, create new Org record and apply any address information in file
- If there is an Individual listed as well as the Fund name we want to link that Individual to the fund (This Fund "Is the Donor Advised Fund of" X Individual). We would also want that Individual to have the same address information applied to it. The match to the record should use the name and address to dedupe. If there is no match present a record is created and linked.
I'm not sure how this will work to use the same address information applied to both the Individual and the Fund. Previously we used a name match for the Fund, but now with increased DAF giving we are seeing a few funds coming in that are from different donors, but have the same name. Because of this we can no longer solely use that logic to match to a DAF record.
I have attached a fake data file with a sample gift so you can see how this information is laid out in the file.