Assets that you donate to the San Antonio Area Foundation create one of several types of funds to support your charitable goals. We offer you a full menu of giving options to tailor your gift. Create a fund in honor of someone you love or to celebrated a special event. Direct your gift broadly or narrowly to issues you care about or to wherever the need is greatest.
Create a fund today and experience the impact your charitable giving will have on the issues you care about or make a significant long-lasting gift by creating a fund through your will. There are many types of charitable funds available at the San Antonio Area Foundation to facilitate your giving and one of them is right for you.
The Acorn Fund is a new giving plan that allows the donor to build up charitable funds that support annual charitable grants and have extraordinary long-term impacts. Read
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Advised funds offer the most flexibility in meeting your charitable objectives. You may make grant recommendations from the fund’s investment income, its growth or appreciation, and/or the corpus, or body of the fund, to any nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status anywhere in the world. Read
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Designated funds are specific funds in which you as the donor, name the current and future charitable recipients at the time you create the fund agreement. You can decide the size of future grants, designating a fixed percentage or dollar total to be awarded from the available funds. Read
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The discretionary funds allow the Board of Directors complete discretion to select the community organizations or initiatives that address the most pressing community needs. Distributions from these discretionary funds provide resources to organizations throughout Bexar and surrounding counties. Read
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A field-of-interest fund enables donors to support causes that mean a great deal to them personally. These range widely from child abuse prevention and drug intervention, to animal welfare, education, and research.
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Nonprofit organizations need to focus on their mission. Often they turn to the Area Foundation for investment assistance to relieve their board and staff of the responsibilities of managing their endowments. Read
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Gifts that educate young people may be the most important legacy of all. Many donors enjoy the rewarding opportunity to set up a scholarship fund in their name or that of a loved one so that deserving young people receive an education. While these funds can be general in nature, there is also great flexibility for the donor to specify particular schools, a particular field of study or other parameters as scholarship criteria. Read
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As an alternative to a private foundation, an affiliation with the San Antonio Area Foundation can reduce administrative and regulatory burdens, allowing you to enjoy greater tax benefits. You are assisted by our staff with grantmaking, investment, and administration. Funds must be valued at $1,000,000 or greater. Read
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Assets that you donate to the San Antonio Area Foundation create one of several types of funds to support your charitable goals. We offer you a full menu of giving options to tailor your gift. Create a fund in honor of someone you love or to celebrated a special event. Direct your gift broadly or narrowly to issues you care about or to wherever the need is greatest.
