JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas –
The 2025 Air Force Assistance Fund Campaign Season at Joint Base San Antonio kicks off March 17 and runs through June 13, 2025. The annual campaign provides an opportunity to help fellow Airmen and Guardians when they need it most.
Your past generosity has helped ensure Airmen, Guardians and their family members were able to receive the financial assistance they needed, when they needed it. his is the 52nd year of our AFAF Campaign – now well into the second half of a century of care for our fellow Airmen and Guardians.
Your four official charities of the Department of the Air Force are putting your generous donations to work, today. Here are our recent updates and testimonies from those you have helped:
Gen & Mrs. Curtis E. LeMay Foundation: The Gen. & Mrs. Curtis E. LeMay Foundation (The LeMay Foundation) is here and prepared to assist any surviving spouses of DAF retirees needing emergency disaster relief. Your continued support is essential in helping the foundation to fulfill their promise to the spouses, ensuring they can remain in their homes and communities. The LeMay Foundation can honor the legacy of our retirees by ensuring their loved ones are cared for and supported. In 2024, LeMay provided close to $281,000 in monetary grants of assistance — both one-time, and monthly, ensuring they had medical equipment, utility bills and mortgage payments covered, and many other needs met.
Air Force Villages Charitable Foundation: Your donations helped a long-time Air Force widow sleep at night! Her retired lieutenant colonel spouse passed away in 2022 and she realized she had outlived her resources. Needing higher, more expensive levels of care, your contributions to the AFAF provide medicine, dental work, glasses, and a safe place to live in peace and dignity. Her family, her Air Force family, is filling the gap. Your generosity throughout the years has provided more than $23 million to more than 600 surviving spouses since 1970!
Air Force Aid Society (AFAS): AFAS has recently stepped in and provided critical emergency assistance to approximately 5,000 Department of the Air Force (DAF) personnel and their families impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. AFAS has provided more than $4 million in direct support to help those affected by these devastating storms. Earlier in 2024, they offered assistance for Airmen and Guardians affected by wildfires in southern California, Hurricane Francine, and provided more than $355,000 in assistance to over 400 DAF families affected by Hurricane Beryl this past Summer.
Air Force Enlisted Village: The care and support services through the AFEV Benevolence program available for the 600-plus residents at Bob Hope Village and Hawthorn House would not be possible without the Air Force Assistance Fund. This program gives financial assistance to DAF retiree’s surviving spouses requiring it while residing in AFEV independent living and assisted living/memory care communities. Because of you, our surviving spouses can live out their years in a place where they have neighbors with similar life experiences. Residents’ lives have been transformed thanks to your generosity. We thank you.
We want to thank you for your incredible support of the Air Force Assistance Fund in 2024, and to let you know your Air and Space Force family still needs you! While we are proud to report that Air Force Aid Society was able to deliver $4 million in disaster relief directly to those affected by the recent hurricanes, we also want to highlight a significant gap.
This past spring, base campaigns raised just under $1.2 million; in 2024, generous donations at AAFES registers total over $1.02 million, and retirees and other donors have mailed in nearly $55,000.
However, this $2.25 million in 2024 donations falls well short of the $4.5 million AF Aid Society has provided in disaster relief alone, with total assistance exceeding $10.8 million across all their programs for 2024. Adding to the urgency, the other three AFAF charities have also provided nearly $2 million in assistance this past year, making the need for additional support across the board even more critical.
The good news is while some of our 2025 base campaigns don’t begin until well into March, you can now contribute to the 2025 Campaign by making a tax-deductible gift or by signing up for monthly giving to spread your donations over time. Simply click the link to our QGiv e-Giving platform, find your base, and scroll to your squadron/unit to give today: 2025 AFAF Campaign
Thank you again for your continued support of the Air Force Assistance Fund. The only Department of the Air Force-authorized fundraising campaign that is For Airmen & Guardians, By Airmen and Guardians!