This is not the way donations work and Conor is completely full of crap. I worked in charitable fundraising for much of my career and the idea that donors have this level of access to line item expenditures for their giving is absurd. Typically, a program or organization's only responsibility is to provide a prospective donor with their publicly disclosed 990 form which they have to file annually anyway and gives an overview of their finances and then the donor may specify if they want the funding to be restricted or unrestricted. That is to say they can specify whether they want the money to be spent on a particular sub-program or service or only for staff expenditures or for particular goods program participants will receive. A $500,000 gift is substantial for an organization of the size of Dustin's and most likely they would prefer unrestricted funds to cover general operating expenses etc. The problem is funders often have the mistaken impression that they know what's best for the organization even more than the org itself so they will occasionally go this route and try to micromanage how and when it will be spent. At that point the org usually has the choice to say this donation is worth it or it's going to require more administrative labor time than it's worth. Ideally, they convince the donor to come to a mutually satisfactory deal, but the donor can just as often stop responding or start stonewalling, which can often be a sign that either they were never committed to the gift in the first place or that they're having personal cashflow issues. Makes me sort of curious if Conor's manager is doing his wealth management work also because usually you want a strict firewall between the two.