Our story

It started with a rainout.

Eighteen teams, one golf course, and a sky that opened up. Fifteen years later the same group of neighbors is still at it, and a family in the Valley is better off for it every single year.

Moments from Valley Angels events: dinners, check presentations, and the volunteer team together

Fifteen years of Septembers and Decembers

A local charity, built by families, for families.

Valley Angels for Families is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2011 and based in Ansonia, Connecticut. We are committed to providing essential support and assistance to families in our community who are facing difficult times.

The way it works has not changed since 2014. We choose a family. We raise everything we can. We hand it over. We try to leave a footprint in someone's life, and we have never taken a dollar out for ourselves.

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Who we have carried

Seven tournaments. Not one dollar kept.

Our first seven years, one cause at a time. Not one of them paid a salary, an office, or an administrator. We keep the individual amounts, and the names of the families we help, private.

2011 A local community organization Rained out. Eighteen teams, two dinners, and we handed it over anyway.

2012 A local community organization Back at Grassy Hill to a better turnout and a stronger response.

2013 A church overseas Chosen in memory of our founder's father. The year a committee formed.

2014 A Valley family The year the mission found itself: choose a family, then give everything.

2015 A Valley family Over thirty teams, a new logo, and that December the first Toy Drive.

2016 A Valley family Our first year as a registered nonprofit, and our first at Whitney Farms.

2017 A Valley family Around thirty teams, with a committee running every part of the day.

Today A Valley family, every year Same weekend, same mission, and a new family chosen every September.

0¢ Spent on salaries or overhead

100% Volunteer run since 2011

501(c)(3) Registered nonprofit since 2016

Valley Angels volunteers presenting a check to the family they chose that year

2013 to 2014

The year the mission found itself

In 2013 the founder lost his father. The members decided that year's proceeds should go to a church overseas that had meant a great deal to him. It was their strongest year yet, and somewhere in doing it they realized what this could be. They formed a committee with a mission to help people and have some fun doing it.

The next year they chose a local family going through the worst of it, gave them everything the day brought in, and never looked back. That is the model we have run ever since.

This is why

A reward for life

We do not print their names here, but we know every one of them. Every family we have chosen has reminded us why Valley Angels exists. It was never about the tournament, the raffle, or the size of the check.

It is about showing a family living through the hardest days of their lives that their community is standing right behind them, and that they were never as alone as it felt.

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Please join us in making a positive impact in the lives of others. A reward for life. Valley Angels for Families