2026 Q2
Impact Report

Inspiring and facilitating revolutionary biblical generosity

Lee Snyder has learned that planning can only take you so far. He and Carol met on a blind date in 1981—one conversation that turned into more than four decades together. At 32, a layoff led him to co-found VaproShield, a construction materials company. The business grew into something worth building a life around, and eventually, worth selling.

Before the sale process began, Lee donated a portion of the business interest to a donor advised fund with The Signatry. He and Carol describe finding The Signatry at the exit of the business as divine intervention—one that minimized taxes and expanded their capacity to give toward two causes close to their hearts: Young Life, the youth ministry where Lee first found faith as a teenager, and clean water access for villages in Honduras.

That same entrepreneurial instinct carries into how the Snyders advise the fund today. Alongside publicly traded security pools, they recommend a portion of the balance toward private alternatives, including commercial real estate development—building, as Lee puts it, toward balance rather than certainty.

“You can get more of a mix of alternatives and the stock market, so you have a balance of investments that can grow in different opportunities,” Lee said. “You’re not just predicated on what’s going to happen up and down every day in the Dow Jones or the S&P—you’ve got investments in real estate, private equity, or whatever it might be.”

For the Snyders, it’s a matter of knowing how much to give now, and how much to let grow for the giving still ahead.