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Volunteer Don Cushman works on affordable homes being built by Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area in east Jackson’s Daisy Bush neighborhood in 2015. Habitat is preparing to accept cryptocurrency donations.
A lifelong Coloradan, Charley moved to Jackson to report on county government. Charley likes slow-cooking spaghetti Bolognese and racing sailboats.
Volunteer Don Cushman works on affordable homes being built by Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area in east Jackson’s Daisy Bush neighborhood in 2015. Habitat is preparing to accept cryptocurrency donations.
Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area is preparing to charge into the next era of the decentralized digital economy.
Teton Habitat is in the final stages of a shift to accept cryptocurrency donations.
“We’re always interested in opportunities to make it easier to give a gift,” said Jason Bruni, development manager for Teton Habitat.
Teton Habitat found a Pennsylvania company, The Giving Block, which helps nonprofits prepare to accept cryptocurrency donations. Habitat expects to close a deal with The Giving Block by the end of the year, Bruni said. When a donor makes a gift, Habitat, with the help of the Giving Block, plans to immediately and automatically sell the cryptocurrency for regular money.
Teton Habitat would receive donations through a “cryptocurrency wallet.”
Cryptocurrency is stabilizing, though it is historically volatile.
Habitat plans to sell the new-fangled currency right away to honor their donor’s intent, Bruni said.
“If they’re giving me a gift of crypto now, they want me to get that value,” Bruni said. “There’s no guarantee that if I sit on it, the value will stay.”
People donate to nonprofits to see an organization they care about succeed, Bruni said. If Habitat were to sit on a cryptocurrency donation and the currency dropped in value, the organization would not benefit as much from the donation as the donor intended, Bruni said.
Bruni enjoyed his discussions with representatives from The Giving Block.
The workers are both salespeople and “data geeks,” Bruni said. “It’s really fun to sit there and talk on the phone and learn all of this stuff,” he said.
Wyoming is something of a leader in cryptocurrency. The Equality State launched the Wyoming Stable Token Commission and launched FRNT, the first fiat-backed, fully reserved stable token issued by a public entity in the US.
President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is set to shift how tax incentives work and organizers, like Bruni, believe that accepting cryptocurrency donations might allow nonprofits to stay ahead of the curve. The bill is set to slash tax incentives for donations by large donors and mildly increase incentives for smaller donors. But cryptocurrency is handled differently than cash donations.
Like stock, it is taxed as “property” and is eligible for tax exemptions that cash donations may not be, Bruni said.
Nonprofit leaders from across the country are bracing for changes in donor behavior because of the shifts in tax deductions.
“It’s always helpful to do your best to try to predict what could change and how to get ahead of that,” Bruni said.
In 2024, across the country, donors gave more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency gifts, according to The Giving Block. Donors utilizing cryptocurrency tend to gift sizable amounts. The average cryptocurrency donation last year was $10,978.28. Three percent of all donations given to nonprofits last year — measured in quantity of gifts, not the total amount of the donation — were given with cryptocurrency, Bruni said.
Bruni knows of two other Jackson Hole nonprofits who are considering or have already begun to collect donations via cryptocurrency. He’s eager to help other organizations that are interesting in accepting the digital donations.
Habitat’s donors can choose what they want their money to support. That could be homes in northern South Park or Habitat’s regular operations, he said.
For now, cryptocurrency donations represent an interesting foray into the future of nonprofit work.
“It’s a growing opportunity,” Bruni said. “It’s not huge yet.”
Contact Charley Sutherland at 307-732-7066 or county@jhnewsandguide.com.
A lifelong Coloradan, Charley moved to Jackson to report on county government. Charley likes slow-cooking spaghetti Bolognese and racing sailboats.
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