Our History
Actually begun back in 1996, the Annual Benefit Cigar Dinners I have hosted were designed to raise funds for one single agency or charity a year. Realizing that we could raise more money and share that with more than one agency or charity a year was the catalyst in developing a foundation. That way we could give several agencies assistance on an annual basis, while at the same time potentially providing funds for new agencies or charities that could benefit from our efforts. Over the last few years we have been able to donate monies raised by this annual event to: The Orpheum Theater, The Guadalupe Clinic, The Kansas Foodbank, St. Anthony Family Shelter, Literacy Resources of the Metropolitan Area, The Lord’s Diner, St. Anthony Pro-Life Outreach, Center of Hope, The Dodge House, Catholic Charities Shelter the Heart Campaign, Harbor House, Girard House, The Mother Mary Anne Clinic, Union Rescue Mission, The ARC of Sedgwick County as well as the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation in the Dominican Republic, to name a few.
The Setter Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, was established in 2006 to raise and donate monies to local charities and agencies in the Wichita, Kansas metropolitan area that have proven by their efforts and successes of making a difference in the lives of people that are less fortunate than ourselves.
The charities and agencies the Setter Foundation supports and donates to are the kinds of agencies that carefully and morally use monies for the actual betterment and good of their recipients. Monies donated from the Foundation go directly to assisting those in the local community that will genuinely benefit from these upstanding and upright agencies that have proven themselves effective and sincere in their missions and objectives.
The Setter Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, was established in 2006 to raise and donate monies to local charities and agencies in the Wichita, Kansas metropolitan area that have proven by their efforts and successes of making a difference in the lives of people that are less fortunate than ourselves.
The charities and agencies the Setter Foundation supports and donates to are the kinds of agencies that carefully and morally use monies for the actual betterment and good of their recipients. Monies donated from the Foundation go directly to assisting those in the local community that will genuinely benefit from these upstanding and upright agencies that have proven themselves effective and sincere in their missions and objectives.