Helping kids achieve a brighter future

Identifying and supporting promising students with financial need

What is The Sanders Family Foundation?

Founded by Rance and Angie Sanders, the Sanders Family Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering students with financial need in Alabama and Florida through transformative educational opportunities. By awarding scholarships and grants, the Foundation helps these students access challenging, enriching, and inspiring learning experiences that build character, confidence, and leadership potential.

Our fundamental values and principles include these beliefs:

Education transforms lives
Learning should be rigorous, rewarding, inspiring, and joyful
Outstanding academics in a supportive environment foster character, confidence, and civic leadership
A passionate lifelong champion of education, Angie Sanders has collaborated with numerous community programs to deliver literacy intervention and enrichment initiatives. Her work equips young learners with essential skills in reading, comprehension, and knowledge retention. She actively supports schools committed to providing disadvantaged students with a strong academic foundation and meaningful character development.

A visionary philanthropist, Mr. Sanders drives the Foundation's mission by supporting students with financial need, opening doors to life-changing education. His commitment extends to The University of Alabama, where he has endowed the Rance M. Sanders Endowed Scholarship in the Culverhouse College of Business for exceptional students pursuing real estate.
Rance & Angie Sanders

Rance M. Sanders Real Estate Program

In 2025, Rance and Angie made a landmark $5 million gift to elevate the real estate program at The University of Alabama, leading to its renaming as the Rance M. Sanders Real Estate Program-now offering a new undergraduate major and minor. Nationally recognized for hands-on learning, the program has seen a 300% surge in enrollment over five years and stands among the country's best in experiential real estate education.
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Foundation Board

Rance M. Sanders
Founder, Board Member
Angie L. Sanders
Founder, Executive Director, Board Member
Casey Sanders Sandkuhl
Board Member

Casey, the daughter of Foundation founders Rance and Angie Sanders, serves as a committed board member of the Sanders Family Foundation. A University of Alabama graduate with a degree in elementary education, Casey brings hands-on experience and a global perspective to the Foundation's mission of empowering students with financial need, in Alabama and Florida.

In 2015, she and her husband, Simeon Sandkuhl, a German-trained engineer, founded Manos de Compasion School in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. Starting with 50 students, they funded, built, and launched the school to serve abused, neglected, and orphaned foster children. Throughout its first few years, Casey led the effort to staff and accredit the school under the Guatemalan government, then transitioned leadership to the local teachers.

Today, Casey maintains a part-time home in Guatemala but primarily resides in Birmingham, Alabama. She continues to guide the Foundation's focus on transformative education, drawing from her family's legacy and her own proven impact in creating high-quality learning environments that give vulnerable youth the opportunity to develop a lifelong love of learning & achievement.
Jackson Stewart
Board Member

Jackson D. Stewart, II is a distinguished attorney and Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Sanders
Capital Partners, LLC. He oversees real estate development and acquisitions in retail centers, medical facilities, and industrial properties. A Birmingham native, Jackson brings legal expertise that strengthens the Foundation's governance, ensures compliance, and safeguards its mission to empower students with financial need in Alabama and Florida through scholarships and grants.

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The Sanders Family Foundation is a 501(c) (3) non-profit charity