The H. E. Butt Foundation is opening an office and convening space in San Antonio, and I’m so excited to tell you about it.
Since 1933, we’ve worked to cultivate wholeness in people and institutions for the transformation of communities throughout Texas. Much of our work has been concentrated in the Texas Hill Country, where we operate camps and retreats in the Frio River Canyon. Those programs are not changing—indeed, we’ve been strengthening them over the last several years, and we will continue to do so.
At the same time, starting in 2016 we launched series of initiatives on behalf of families and children in San Antonio, including a capacity building program that has served around 40 area nonprofits, a storytelling program—Know Your Neighbor—designed to build bridges across economic and social gaps, and other special initiatives focused on mental health and more.
Now, as we move into our new space on Sunset Road, we’re confirming our longterm commitment to this work in San Antonio.
The Sunset offices—which we’re calling simply “Sunset”—were designed by Jonathan Card, an architect and regular guest at Laity Lodge Family Camp. Card drew on his experience with the Foundation’s Canyon property to inform and inspire his design.
While Sunset is the home of our San Antonio work, the Foundation headquarters will remain located in Kerrville, where the Butt family founded its business and philanthropic work. We also continue to operate an extension office in Leakey for the Real County Community Initiative, another of our community engagement programs.
The H. E. Butt Foundation is proud to be part of this community. We hope Sunset will become a life-giving place to continue our work and, more importantly, to work with all of our partners in San Antonio as we strive together to cultivate wholeness throughout our city.
FAQ
The H. E. Butt Foundation is an operating foundation with five programs located near the headwaters of the Frio River just north of Leakey, Texas, and a headquarters in Kerrville, Texas. We’re continuing to explore new initiatives to serve vulnerable communities in San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country.
Although we were also founded by the Butt family, we are not affiliated with H-E-B grocery stores.
As we’ve explored ways to serve vulnerable communities, we’ve found an enormous need for capacity-building and storytelling in San Antonio. We’ve built these offices on Sunset Road to allow us the space we need to work and as a commitment to continuing this work in the city.
The Sunset offices are the home of our capacity-building, narrative change, and congregational mental health initiatives.
Our capacity-building cohorts are dedicated to improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and networking of local nonprofit organizations. Through our narrative change initiative, we tell stories through public events, learning experiences, media, and peer-learning cohorts to challenge what our audience knows about neighborhood segregation, inequality, and poverty. Our congregational mental health initiative is our newest and will support congregations as they care for individuals and families facing mental health challenges and work to break mental health stigmas in the church.
For more information on any of these, please visit our community engagement page.
If you’re interested in working with us, please see our job openings.
Our office is open during regular office hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. If you are interested in visiting for events, we suggest you follow us on social media or subscribe to our newsletters.
The H. E. Butt Foundation is a private operating foundation based in Kerrville, Leakey, and San Antonio, Texas, working to cultivate wholeness in people and institutions for the transformation of communities. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization financially and legally distinct from the H-E-B Grocery Company.
