The Foundation

The Foundation for The Santa Fe Symphony plays an important role in enabling The Symphony to present the amazing concerts you’ll hear this season. The Foundation’s main purpose is to prudently manage and invest The Symphony’ s Endowment funds, helping to ensure the long-term viability of one of Santa Fe’s important cultural treasures. Over the past 20 years, the Endowment has reached more than $3 million, and distributions from these invested assets provide, on average, more than 10% of The Symphony’s annual operating budget. Although the entire Symphony family is proud of this achievement, we at The Foundation would like to do better and know we can.

To those of you who have supported The Foundation in the past or are doing so currently, we extend our heartfelt thanks. You’ll see a list of these dedicated contributors in The Symphony’s Program Book. To those of you who haven’t yet contributed to The Foundation, you too can join the list of loyal friends and supporters committed to safeguarding The Symphony’s continued success for many, many years to come. Whether you include The Foundation in your estate plans and become a member of our Ovation Society, endow a named orchestral chair, permanently fund a music mentor in the Santa Fe Public Schools, or choose any of the other ways to give to the Endowment, we greatly appreciate your help in fulfilling our mission to sustain the growth and ensure the future of The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus.

Donors to The Foundation will be acknowledged in The Symphony’s Program Book in perpetuity. For more information call Katie Rountree, Development Director, at 505.600.3976 or krountree@santafesymphony.org.

Together we can make it all happen!

The Santa Fe Symphony is proud to have earned a Gold Seal of Transparency from Candid! Who are they and why is this important to know? Candid is the company formed after the merger of The Foundation Directory and Guidestar. These two publications joined forces in 2019 and today Candid is the top reference source for funding in the not-for-profit world. Candid tells organizations such as ours who’s funding projects that align with what we’re doing. They also tell foundations and major donors which organizations’ missions and activities best align with their priorities. And our award? It’s a big deal! By offering anyone interested in supporting The Santa Fe Symphony full transparency into our financial records and program track records, we’re providing an extra layer of security to anyone who might not know us firsthand.

We invite all Symphony supporters to check out our profile — after all, we want you to always have the information you need to support our work with trust and confidence.