Taking the Next Step
Funds can be created in as little as one meeting, with a short fund agreement and a single gift. You can focus on specific organizations, issues or regions, or create a fund with a flexible purpose. Funds can be created in as little as one meeting, with a short fund agreement and a single gift.
STEP 1
Think about what you’d like to support.
STEP 2
Choose the type of fund that meets your needs. We can help!
STEP 3
Name your fund, and we will create a personal fund agreement for you to sign.
Ready to Start?
Why Should I Open a Fund at the San Antonio Area Foundation?
- Highest charitable tax deduction
- No excise tax
- No minimum payout
- Donate complex gifts
- Impact investment option
- Personalized service & local knowledge
- Support for your strategic grantmaking
- Educational and networking opportunities
San Antonio Area Foundation
- Highest charitable tax deduction ✔
- No excise tax ✔
- No minimum payout ✔
- Donate complex gifts ✔
- Impact investment option ✔
- Personalized service & local knowledge ✔
- Support for your strategic grantmaking ✔
- Educational and networking opportunities ✔
Commercial Donor-Advised Fund
- Highest charitable tax deduction ✔
- No excise tax ✔
- No minimum payout ✔
- Donate complex gifts X
- Impact investment option X
- Personalized service & local knowledge X
- Support for your strategic grantmaking X
- Educational and networking opportunities X
Private Foundation
- Highest charitable tax deduction X
- No excise tax X
- No minimum payout X
- Donate complex gifts ✔
- Impact investment option X
- Personalized service & local knowledge X
- Support for your strategic grantmaking X
- Educational and networking opportunities X
Ready to Start?
Impact Stories
West Side Families Count On Good Neighbors During Pandemic
House of Neighborly Service Still Strong After 100+ Year Even with restrictions gradually lifting on being out and about during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Estela Trujillo feels quite jittery about heading out of the house. As an older adult, she knows that unfortunately she’s in the primary target demographic for the dangerous virus. She does…
UP Partnership: Prioritizing An Equitable Recovery For Our Youth
In order to have a truly equitable post-coronavirus recovery, one key factor cannot be overlooked: academic systems serving young people can no longer work independently of one another. “The pandemic clearly showed us that as a city, we are extremely dependent on one another. Education systems, including schools and wrap-around student services, do not work…
San Antonio Area Foundation releases free 60-page guide for caregivers of older adults
“A Caregiver’s Toolkit” offers tips, local resources to help manage challenges of providing care for a loved one If you help an older adult with things like picking up groceries, driving to doctor appointments, paying bills or even getting dressed, you are a caregiver. Family caregiving impacts the physical and mental health, finances, career and…
Philanthropic Pivot: Partners Flourish During Pandemic
San Antonio’s success as a city is the result of how the community consistently comes together to address urgent needs and unique opportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic has proved that “we are stronger together,” a principle by which the San Antonio Area Foundation operates. “With the pandemic, the philanthropic community had to mobilize quickly because we…
Keeping Immigrant Families From Falling Through Societal Cracks
When our region began feeling the pervasive impact of the quickly-spreading coronavirus pandemic in March, students suddenly saw their Spring Break extended by a few days. Then some more days. Weeks went by and students and their parents began hearing what seemed like the inevitable – classes would be cancelled for good for the remainder…
Former Scholarship Recipient Says Thanks and Pays it Forward
I had a conversation recently with a colleague about recognizing scholarship donors at our school and it caused me to reflect on my own experience – first as a scholarship recipient 25 years ago and then as someone who funds scholarships. As scholarship donors, my husband and I could choose to bequeath gifts to help…
Answering The Call To Serve
Dear Members of the Area Foundation Family, As the season changes to summertime in our new reality, we are creating new ways of celebrating one another, such as with virtual gatherings, drive-by parades and more. One of those joyous traditions includes our collective love for the San Antonio Spurs. Our Spurs bring us together as…
Joint Statement From San Antonio Area Foundation Board Chairman Theodore Guidry II and CEO Marjie French
Area Foundation Statement on Racial Injustice and Equitable Opportunities We join with community in San Antonio, across Texas, and throughout the country, in grieving the horrific killings of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and the countless others. The intensity of the anger and grief that Americans are expressing in the wake of these most…
San Antonio Area Foundation awards $3.4 million in scholarships to 659 San Antonio area students
Tiffany Padilla, who just graduated from high school, is on her way to Dallas Baptist University, where she’ll enroll in an accelerated program to earn her undergraduate and graduate degrees and become a children’s counselor. Tiffany always dreamed of getting a college degree for a career working with children. But ever since her father had…
