Los Tigres Del Norte decided to institutionalize their charitable efforts with the creation of the Los Tigres Del Norte Foundation in March of 2000. Initial funding in the amount of $500,000 was provided by the members of the group and was matched by the band's record label Fonovisa for a total endowment of $1,000,000.00.

MISSION STATEMENT:

The Los Tigres Del Norte Foundation is a California 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation that supports worthy non-profit charitable and community based organizations in an effort to further the appreciation and understanding of Latino music, culture and history through education and community outreach programs.

BIOGRAPHY:

The story of Los Tigres Del Norte begins in the small town of Rosa Morada, Sinaloa, Mexico. Learning the joy of music by listening to their maternal grandfather Ascencion Angulo sing on his ranch, the four brothers (Jorge, Raul, Eduardo, and Hernan) started their own group while barely in their teens playing local gigs. Due to an injury to their father, the young men found themselves responsible for supporting their family and music seemed to them a good way to do that. It was 1968, in Mexicali, that the brothers were hired for a Diez y Seis de Septiembre dance in San Jose, California. Immigration officials referred to them as ʺlittle tigersʺ and they now had a name.