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If you want, you can also arrange things as "sponsorships" of various things for the nonprofits you support, which may allow them to be considered a business expense, saving you that money on taxes (last I checked, LLCs don't get tax deductions for charitable donations).

If your company's name is on the jersey of the Little League team, for example, it's an "advertising" expense, and the team gets jerseys.