She was the co-founder of the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund which has contributed more than $364 million to Bay Area cultural, civic, and social service organizations.
[1][3] Her brother, Jerome Alan Danzig, was an adviser to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York and was married to tennis star Sarah Palfrey.
[5] She and her husband helped raise the $95 million needed to build the museum's facility[6] in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) area; it opened in 1995.
The Haas Jr. Fund provided the symphony with a $10 million lead challenge grant for the creation of Keeping Score, an initiative anchored by a PBS television series aimed at bringing classical music to American homes and schools.
Haas was an advocate for the San Francisco Chronicle's annual Season of Sharing Fund, which her husband first launched in partnership with the newspaper in 1986.