If you "simply paid the back taxes" you have no rights or claim to the property, or against the owner, you simply made a donation.

Different from donation based crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, equity crowdfunding was only recently legalized by the 2012 JOBS Act that allows crowdfunding to be used for startups and ventures. 

Most folks who donate to Restore are remodeling a house and the appliances work just fine.  

I want to give the tenant the opportunity to get his stuff but am I bound by any holding period where I have to store his belongings before I can donate or trash the stuff?

Donate the trim to a restore and send the tub to scrap.

Perhaps local businesses would be willing to donate or discount things for you to do so, thanks to your efforts at improving education in your community.That's where my head goes, I like your intentions a lot.

You can sell it with owner financing, sell it outright, pull equity from it to use on something else, rent, donate, condemn and take a tax write off.

I have not dealt with this before, so I don't know what to do, or offer them... a donation?.

I guess I should start by introducing my self My name is Sergio I live in the awesome city of Phoenix, Az I came to the U.S 22 yrs ago from Colombia, I served honorably in the U.S Marines and I currently work in the oil and gas industry in the frozen state of ND, some of my hobbies are riding my motorcycle, hiking, shooting at the range, salsa, bachata, vallenato dancing.Like almost every one I was influenced by Robert Kiyosaki's Rich dad Poor dad a few years ago and that set in motion a desire to get out of the rat race, I started working in the oil industry to get out off debt as prescribed by Dave Ramsey now a few years in to my oil field career I've accomplished some financial goals and now ready to dive in to the real state world so I can work for my self "minding my business" (forgot who said that but good quote) I like to focus on buy and hold rental property the residual income is something that is appealing to me, I guess my goal is to eventually stop "working" and spend more time with family and donate more of my time and money to my friends organization helping disable kids and under privilege families in Colombia.I hope this was a proper intro and it wasn't too long looking forward to one day being on the Bigger pockets podcast with Josh and Brandon and having photograph taken with Robert Kiyosaki. 

I’m guessing there has gotta be some tax benefits to donating a house to a school district like this right?