Grape, no matter how much you now want to focus on donor reporting, what you initially posted and asked for opinions about was an NPR sponsorship. You even described going to the notary's website and seeing her commercial (aka Advertisement.)
You can keep droning on about donor and recipient non-profit tax reporting til the cows come home but that will not change a business sponsorship to a personal donation. They are two different things entirely.
Donation is simply giving dollars to NPR. Giving a donation that includes a dinner is still just a donation with a benefit.
A sponsorship is a pre-arranged contract between business and NPR detailing what the business will receive in exchange for paying for the sponsorship. There are typically different levels of sponsorships with each successively more costly level providing more benefit to the sponsor. (I am guessing this isn't completely foreign to you.)
For example; My ex sponsored a musician's chair for our symphony. There was a base dollar required that provided minimal name, photo exposure. For an increased amount there were additional publications, online, radio, etc acknowledgements. At the higher dollar levels some complementary tickets were included. However, in our case, those tickets were specifically complimentary with no value attached. We could deduct the entire amount of the sponsorship.
All of these details are laid out prior to entering into a sponsorship agreement. There is NO end of year surprise that some portion of the investment isn't deductible unless previously agreed upon.
You clearly did not like the opinions you received and have done you best to fuzzy up the post with all the sidetracking smokescreens about personal donations. Someone, even a business, buying a $500 dinner has nothing to do with the type of sponsorship you alluded to in your OP.
And, lol, you can claim the case is closed but the doesn't make it so! Period. Fact!
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