[hrocha1]

Step 1. create a charity that would "adopt" Google employees and give them Pixel phones

Step 2. choose that charity and pick yourself for an adoption

[jefftk]

That's not going to qualify for 501(c)(3) status: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...

[lazyasciiart]

Step 0: remember that people have been creating scam charities for a long time, so the IRS looks for it, knows more than you do about it, and does not like it.

[hrocha1]

It was just a joke. I'm not from US and have no idea how any of this work :)

To me the whole idea of a gift where the employer donates money to charities in a name of a employee seems like "The Human Fund" sketch from Seinfeld rather than anything that would actually exist in a real world.

[dboreham]

Create a church instead..