Don Facundo Bacardi Masso created the first premium Cuban rum in Santiago de Cuba more than a century ago. His experiment using La Levadura Bacardi, an exotic yeast strain, gave the world one of the best rums man has ever tasted. Don Facundo lives on in the thousand and millions of people who have enjoyed the distillery’s first-class rums for years now.

Aside from the legacy of his superior rums, Don Facundo’s memory lives on through the Bacardi Family Foundation. The foundation is the philanthropic group of the world’s largest family-owned rum making business, Bacardi Limited.

Through the Bacardi Family Foundation, Bacardi Limited is able to reach out to those who are in need, especially those who come from their homeland, Cuba.

Some examples of the Bacardi family’s philanthropic works include endowments given to the PADF (Pan American Development Foundation) for Cuban victims of four vicious hurricanes in 2008, and the Stockholm Water Foundation, in support of its efforts to highlight the importance of water conservation around the world.

In addition to these endowments, the Bacardi Family Foundation, through Bacardi Limited, also created Casa Bacardi at the University of Miami as a symbol of its support to the initiatives of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies.

Long after Don Facundo has gone, his name and his legacy lives on in the many wonderful works of the Bacardi Family Foundation.