Deductions & credits

Check with your brokerage company.  I just did one from my Vanguard IRA today.  If you are the right age to make a QCD you select a check to the Charity.  I had to enter what funds to sell it from.  Vanguard sends me the check made out to the charity care of my name.  I then have to mail the check to the charity.  Be sure to get an acknowledgment letter from the charity as backup to deduct it from your taxes.