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Enter in the amount as you normally would in the Charitable Donations section under Deductions & Credits. Click Start to begin. Then, follow these steps:

• Answer Yes to Do you want to enter your donations for 2020?
• For each donation, follow these steps:
  • Enter who the donation was to at Let's enter your donations one at a time and indicate what type of item was donated, an Item, Money, Stock, or Mileage and travel expenses
  • Follow the prompts from there, entering the amount of the donation 
  • When finished, select Done with This Donation
• Select + Add Another Donation to continue. For the Pittsburg Foundation Scholarship, enter the name of it and the amount contributed.

To qualify, the IRS clarifies that the contribution must be:

• a cash contribution;
• made to a qualifying organization;
• made during the calendar year 2020

When a large donation amount is entered and you have selected Continue, a new screen, Donation Limits, will ask Were any of your donations to a fraternal order, veteran's group, nonprofit cemetery or other 30% charity? Answer yes or no and Continue.

All donations that meet the criteria under the Cares Act will qualify for the 100% of Adjusted Gross Income deduction automatically in TurboTax. To qualify, the IRS clarifies that the contribution must be:

• a cash contribution;
• made to a qualifying organization;
• made during the calendar year 2020

For more information, see IRS Charitable Contributions Deductions