Invested in the promise of Sonoma County

We believe in the power of connecting people, ideas and resources to benefit the lives of those who live in here. 

Our Community Impact Funds

Fund for The Arts

Support the artists and arts organizations that make our community so vibrant through a gift to our Fund for the Arts.

Fund for Basic Human Needs

Through our Fund for Basic Human Needs you can support our community’s most vulnerable residents in crisis with emergency food, shelter, medications, transportation, and other urgent needs.

Community Leadership Fund

Giving to our Community Leadership Fund supports the Community Foundation in inspiring and increasing philanthropy in Sonoma County.

Community Endowment Fund

Your support of the Community Endowment Fund means we can be nimble in the face of change. We may not know now what issues our community will face in 50 or 100 years, but we know we’ll have the resources to address them.

Fund for The Environment

Sonoma County’s natural beauty is unmatched–and with a gift to our Fund for the Environment, you help us protect, preserve, and steward the land that we all love and depend on.

Fund for Education

With a gift to our Fund for Education, you can help create opportunity, hope, and empowerment for students in Sonoma County.

Sonoma County Resilience Fund
The Sonoma County Resilience Fund focuses on long-term recovery, supporting residents impacted by disasters. The fund supports the most vulnerable people in our community, people struggling to make ends meet before a disaster, and who now have greater challenges living a healthy, safe, stable life in Sonoma County.
Sonoma County Resilience Fund

The Fund for Belonging supports immigrant communities in Sonoma County.

Our Regional Partner Funds

Healdsburg Forever Fund

Healdsburg Forever provides grants to nonprofits serving Healdsburg and surrounding area, working to ensure that the area is a sustainable, inclusive community in which all individuals have the opportunity to thrive.

Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund
Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund mobilizes philanthropic support and innovative approaches to better address the Valley’s urgent, emergent and chronic challenges.

Local Giving Circles 

Sonoma County Resilience Fund

Impact 100 Redwood Circle is a Sonoma County-based women’s collective giving organization, funding nonprofits throughout the county. They work to create transformative, lasting change in Sonoma County through the collective philanthropy of women.

Sonoma County Resilience Fund

Sebastopol West 100 (SW100) supports community-based non-profits in the West County communities of the Sebastopol area including Graton, Forestville, Occidental and Freestone. As a trusted community steward, SW100 generates funding to leverage, facilitate, and inspire projects, programs, improvements and ongoing services that will maintain and enhance the quality of life in the greater Sebastopol area. 

Sonoma County Resilience Fund

Impact Windsor works to make a positive impact and build community in Windsor.  Together, we will make significant donations of up to $50,000 to organizations dedicated to improving our community. Every dollar will go directly to local Windsor nonprofits, programs, and projects, and each woman in the circle has an equal say in how those funds are distributed. 

How to Contribute to our Funds

We’re grateful for your generosity! There are several easy ways to support CFSC’s funds.

Give Online
Make a secure credit card donation through one of the links above. 

Through Your Fund at CFSC
If you have a donor-advised fund at Community Foundation Sonoma County, you can make a grant recommendation through the Giving Center.

By Check
Send a check made payable to Community Foundation Sonoma County.
Memo Line: Fund for Belonging
120 Stony Point Road, Suite 220
Santa Rosa CA 95401

Gifts of Stock
If you would like to make a gift of stock, please call or email us to let us know your gift is coming! View stock gift instructions here

If you want to give in another way, are interested in building a custom portfolio of funds to support, or want to learn more about our Community Impact Funds, please contact:

Deirdre Holbrook

Deirdre Holbrook

Vice President for Philanthropic Advancement

707.579.4801