My wife and I are donating an older car of ours to a pastor at our church who had his car stolen.

I have been trying to get information on the process but most of what I see pertains to either giving to a family member or donating to a charity. What's the best way for us to do this?

It's not as important but would be nice to get some tax savings from the process.

Has to be given to a 501c3!or some such, can't donate to a person and get a tax deduction.

And remember it's going to reduce your taxable income by the wholesale book value at your effective tax rate. So if you donate a $3000 car to the church and youre in the 30% bracket you will get a whole $900 of savings.

And you can't earmark it and have it be deductible. Donate to church, and they could give it to the pastor or anything else they want to do with it.

Many thanks for all the answers here. From the reading online I had done, I pretty much came to this conclusion, but I figured I'd ask.

I might go the route of donating it to the church, but it's probably not a huge savings.

The chuch is a 501c3 by definition. Many churches own the vehicles the pastor drives. This shouldn't be an issue and also gets him out of paying sales tax. They'll simply hand over title to the pastor when he leaves. But for now they can insure it in leiu of a car allowance.