THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION – Creating Family Foundations Welcome to The American Foundation Home of The Family Foundation Advantage For more than 25 years we have helped individuals families and corporations create Family Foundations Better than Donor Advised Funds Individual Foundations Better than Donor Advised Funds Corporate Foundations Millennial Farms Foundations Family Foundation Support Organizations SOs Our Family Foundations are uniquely designed as component charitable accounts established at The American Foundation. Our unique approach gives your foundation the more favorable public charity status achieving greater tax and financial benefits than you can get with a private foundation or in any other way. We also provide leading edge assistance with private foundation management. We can tell you when it makes the most sense to have a private foundation.