If you use the Standard Deduction, your charitable donations are not used on your tax return. However, you cannot carry over would be Itemized Deductions from a previous year in which you used the Standard Deduction. Any amount you had that would have been considered an Itemized Deduction is lost when you use the Standard Deduction and cannot be carried forward.
You may have heard of a Charitable Donation carry forward however. This has to do with donating such a large amount to charity that your Itemized Deductions related to that donation are limited for the year in which you itemize. In this case you can carry forward the amount that was limited in the prior year.
