If you want to help people, you can donate money to charity or do volunteer work.

I was thinking we could raffle off their time for charity or for bigger pockets like we did Rich's condo.

Try either 1) calling a charity or 2) holding a garage sale.

Unless there is more to the structure of the deal than you have told us, the charity is working with a property buyer who just happens to be purchasing the relinquished property in someone else's 1031 exchange.The presence or absene of an exchange seems incidental to the deal.I am guessing that the charity is working with a buyer who is using a loan program that does not permit seller assistance with the downpayment, but will allow the downpayment to come from a charity, but has a property under contract with a downpayment concession from the seller.The seller "contributes" the amount of the downpayment to the charity, and the charity funnels the money back to the buyer as a gift at the settlement table.

The Charity just received an 18% interest in a property FOR FREE...

Example: Charity A Letter from a charity a organization asking for help: Hi, We got kids out here that's needs your help.

They were expected to work on some sort of public service every year; work for a charity, do some sort of donated work, it didn't matter what, but they were expected to give back to the community.

You don’t run a charity service.

Unless you want it to be a form of charity every deal must provide the return you need to make it worth you while.Best of luck going forward.

Donate to the charity of a company that you wish to do business with.3.