Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund

In 1986, the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund co-founder, Walter A. Haas, Jr., and the Fund’s President, Ira Hirschfield, approached the San Francisco Chronicle with an idea: the Bay Area needed a charitable fund to help individuals and families in crisis.

Since our founding, the Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund has distributed $219 million, comprising $184 million in housing and critical needs assistance and $35 million in food assistance. These funds have gone to assist tens of thousands of households across the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area — Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma.