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Making donation as part of offer?

my husband and I are putting in our offer for a house- all cash, quick close if that matters. Lots of communication between us/our agent and the seller/their agent where it's pretty much a guaranteed deal. Without going into too much detail, the seller recently lost their child to a rare disease during this process. This disease is something that's effected our family so it hit home. We are wanting to make a donation, on top of the agreed upon price, as part of the offer. Maybe toward research for this disease, or even just a nonprofit of their choice. Is this something that is doable? Inappropriate? I read online that some realtors donate part of their commission toward charity, so I wasn't sure if we could do something similar as a sort of.. solidarity? This family has been through the wringer trying to sell their home so we'd like to show some sort of support with our offer since we have the means to. Thanks in advance.

Edit; thanks for the feedback everyone, we've decided to just do a donation anonymously and not mention anything/do anything out of the ordinary with our offer. I was seeing it as a sort of bid of support, as their journey in trying to sell this place has been rough on top of everything else (previous offer involved some really shady stuff on the buyer's end which cost them a lot of headache/time wasted/money.) In my experience, when I've found out someone has done something/donated on my behalf, it's made me feel good.. because Im being thought of, and it's going toward something I care about. So I was going off of that. but I definitely understand how attaching it to our offer could be seen as manipulative/virtue signaling. I wasn't sure if there was a better alternative. FWIW the offer/purchase is anonymous, so no weird intentions for recognition as implied in the comments. No need to be rude. Thanks

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