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Your Inspiration. Our Innovation. Greater Impact.

The San Antonio Area Foundation can develop a powerful, cost-effective, and highly personal approach to your charitable giving.  By providing a broad range of fund opportunities, we work with donors to create a giving program that is easy, flexible, and effective.

Since 1964, the San Antonio Area Foundation has been a leading partner in community philanthropy. We share in your commitment to build healthy communities and promote responsible stewardship of resources. Whatever your inspiration for giving, we can help you create a powerful legacy and a philanthropic spirit impacting generations to come.

Giving Made Easy

The San Antonio Area Foundation offers a variety of funds that allow you to focus on your charitable interests and to make a difference now. Our giving options are flexible and tailored to meet your needs. Below is a list of categories that currently have funds:

Animal Services Elderly Perservation
Arts/ Culture Enviornment Religion
Community Affairs General Purpose Scholarships
Children/ Youth Human Services  
Education Medical Services/ Health Count  

 

Welcome New Funds

(as of January 2012)

  • Project RED Fund
  • Simpson-Nooe Fund
  • Jesse Wright Boyd, Jr. Animal Assistance Fund
  • Jerry Bedell Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Philip and Jean Piccione Charitable Fund
  • High Performing Charter School Fund
  • Right to Sight International Fund
  • Community Leadership Institute Fund
  • Spirittouch Caregivers' Fund
  • San Antonio International Folk Art Market Fund
  • Community Fdn of the Texas Hill Country Agency Management Fund
  • S.A.M. Fund
  • Emilio Aguilar Alzheimer's Foundation Acorn FundCovenant Community Fund
  • Mi Casa Agency Investment Fund
  • Gentry Family Fund
  • Jessica Redfield Ghawi Scholarship Fund
  • One Nation Fund
  • American Sunrise Scholarship Fund
  • John Newman Family Charitable Fund
  • RLI Fund
  • The Travis Letter Fund
  • Steven and Le Ann Cyr Family Charitable Fund
  • Michael and Mary Benedum Fund

Connecting the Community

I am really proud to be a part of an organization that is making a difference in our community. It seems there are great things happening each day in our city, and the excitement is contagious. What we are really excited about is that the total community Animal No Kill rate hit 70 percent for the January-June 2012 time period. The total community includes nonprofit animal shelters and adoption groups along with San Antonio’s Animal Care Services. READ MORE