In 2002 the San Angelo Health Foundation launched the San Angelo Area Foundation. While the SAHF is a private foundation, the SAAF is a community foundation whose mission is to improve quality of life in the San Angelo area by assisting philanthropic individuals aggregate funds to benefit the area.

Endowed gifts to the San Angelo Area Foundation are permanent. Since the earnings are used in grant making, individual funds continue to grow while grants made from annual earnings support a wide variety of programs in the San Angelo area.

Advantages of size will allow the SAAF to maximize investment opportunities while keeping management costs lower than if a person were to purchase these types of services individually, thus allowing more money to go to meaningful grants.

Strong Board Leadership, professional management, and the unique mission of the Foundation will allow donors to meet their philanthropic needs while insuring proper administration of funds while keeping a long-term perspective providing leadership to nurture the overall good of the entire community.

The Board of Directors is lead by Board Chair James A. Carter (photo at right).

Board Members are:

J. Michael Anderson Liz Bates Susan Brooks Gary Cox Al Elliott Brenda Gunter Katie Johnson

Deanna Mayfield Jeffrey McCormick Betty Miller Bob Pfluger Allen Price Jim Raymond Doris Rousselot

 

The Foundation President and CEO is Matt Lewis (photo at right) [email mlewis@saafound.org].

Past Directors include:

Sonny Cleere Ray Harper E. James Hindman David Hirschfield Robert Junnell John Mark McLaughlin

T. Richey Oliver Bishop Michael Pfeifer Rev. Carl Rohlfs Frank W. Rose, Director Emeritus Steve Stephens (Past Chair) Donna Sugg

Additional information about Community Foundations in general can be found at Community Foundations.net, a collaboration of the Council on Foundations and the Community Foundations of America.