Gofundme for someone else's health expenses

Hi all,

Our family started a gofundme campaign for our cousin's baby for an extremely expensive treatment in the US. We could not open up the campaign in the baby or parents' names or name them as "gofundme beneficiary" because they are living abroad. The campaign is over, luckily they were able to collect enough through this gofundme campaign (partially) and other sources to visit the US and get the treatment done. At the time, at the advice of a tax expert, we opened a separate non-interest bearing account at the bank to receive the gofundme campaign funds, so there is no co-mingling with our personal accounts. The entire amount of funds in this bank account was wired directly to the hospital administering the treatment, and we are about to receive the statement from the hospital that shows these partial funds were received directly from that bank account. 

At the time when the donations were coming to gofundme, we had donors entering their information and making payments themselves using the gofundme page, and there were also some offline donations that were made to the family which were entered as “offline donations” on the gofundme page, so that people could see how much in total funds were collected for this cause. The reason I am mentioning this is because the gofundme page shows much more money collected than the money that was collected in the bank account that we opened. In addition, some people could not use gofundme platform so sent funds via paypal, showing up in the bank account also. So in short, the money that was wired to the hospital consisted of funds that were wired from the bank account (gofundme and paypal donations) and the family member’s own bank account, together made up the whole amount needed for the treatment. 

The tax expert told us that at the time of filing our taxes we should write a very detailed letter to the IRS explaining the circumstances (we are collecting the funds for our close family member, to be sent directly to the hospital for treatment), include all receipts and statements, cross-reference dates of transactions so that we do not receive a letter from IRS stating we owe taxes on these donations. The bank statement shows the exact amount wired to the hospital, and that line item shows the patient’s name. We also remember that she stated we should enter this donation amount collected under the bank account under "Other" and then deduct the exact amount to bring the tax liability to zero for this transaction. 

We are still gathering all the paperwork and will run this by the tax expert again as we are  filing our tax return, but have a few questions to the community here:

- On what TurboTax screen do we enter these funds, and what screen do we deduct?

- It appears from these forum entries and other internet resources that gofundme sends a 1099 for transactions like these. We haven't received a 1099 from gofundme yet. Has anyone received a 1099 from (we believe 1099-K) from gofundme? 

- Since we will need to attach the letter to IRS and the backup documentation, how do we file our taxes? Do we enter all of our information, pay for the filing but then print and send it in mail? What are the exact steps for this?

- What are your suggestions on how to explain this in the letter to IRS? Has anyone had any good experience with certain wording for this or standard language that is used to help IRS understand the circumstances, especially with the amounts wired to hospital from our bank account vs. the entire gofundme amount?

- Any other insight or helpful hints from folks who may have done this in the past?

Thank you in advance.