If you gift $10,000 to a family member, does that lower you or does it have to be a gift to a charitable organization?

One such strategy is the bunching of charitable contributions.

Google "donor-advised funds" to learn how you can donate to worthy causes the IRS has qualified as 501c3 organizations to get your financial return as an immediate tax break and your ongoing psychic return as you improve your neighborhood with your charitable donations from your fund.

I currently tithe my 10% and live on 70% of what little I have now so I figured it would be much bigger tithing and even more charitable giving!

Ifa nonprofit wants to acquire a property which is subject to one or more of these types of liens, it shouldalways inquire if the governmental entity which holds the lien has any special programs or exemptionsfor nonprofits intending to develop the properties for charitable purposes which may enable the non-profit to obtain a release of the lien for less than the face value of the indebtedness secured by the lien.The City of Dallas, for example, has offered a program for nonprofit housing organizations wherebyhealth and safety liens are released if the property is used for affordable housing.General State Tax LiensEach county clerk maintains a State Tax Liens record or book in which notices of state taxliens filed by the Comptroller of Public Accounts are maintained.

Then you don't have to worry about it and it fits your charitable mindset.

Hopefully my charitable donations do some small amount of good.

These cover "land" trusts, testamentary trusts, and charitable trusts. 

However in order to present him the best solution on selling his property in the future and to defer taxes I am wondering if anyone knows of something outside of a 1031-exchange or Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) that would allow the seller the defer taxes and give the profit from the sale to his church and remaining family members.Any ideas?

[Nothing here suggests he'd be charitable to you].