Community Grant Recipients

2020 Recipients

• Animals

  2020 recipients (YTD)

  • Austin Animal Center – $500 – Neighborhood microchip checking
  • Austin Humane Society – $10,000 – Completing families: adoption program
  • Wildlife Rescue, Inc. – $12,000 – Upgrades to wildlife rehabilitation enclosures

  2019 recipients

  • PAWS Shelter and Humane Society – $10,000 – Spay and neutering surgery suite equipment grant
  • Shadow Cats – $1,250 – Shadow Cats roof project
  • Texas Veterinary Medical Foundation – $250 – TVMF PALS (pets assisting the lives of seniors)
  • Wildlife Rescue, Inc. – $11,000 – Outdoor caging for wildlife rehabilitation
• Arts & Culture

  2020 recipients (YTD)

  • Armstrong Community Music School – $500 – The Harmony Initiative: transforming communities through music
  • Kids In A New Groove – $250 – Mentoring through Music
  • Neil Cochran House Museum – $10,000 – ‘If These Walls Could Talk’ project

  2019 recipients

  • Austin Bat Cave – $15,000 – Mobile program
  • Austin Jazz Workshop – $5,000 – Hoagy Carmichael’s Heart & Soul
  • The Austin Lyric Opera – $10,000 – La Bohème
  • Austin Speech Labs – $26,000 – Intensive communication therapy (ICT) and modified musical intonation therapy (MMIT) to improve stroke recovery
  • Arc of the Capital Area – $1,000 – Fine-arts based continuing education for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
  • Ballet Austin – $20,000 – Night of Community 2019-2020
  • Creative Action – $1,000 – Free community arts programming in East Austin
  • Indigenous Cultures Institute – $2,500 – Sacred Springs Powwow
  • KMFA – $100,000 – Dear, music: building a home for KMFA
  • Paramount & State Theatre – $500 – Paramount education programming 2019-2020
  • Salvage Vanguard Theatre – $5,000 – Casta by Adrienne Dawes | world premiere
  • Zachary Scott Theatre Center – $10,000 – Theatre for families and schools
• Community Engagement

  2019 recipients

  • Austin Health Commons, via Economic Growth Business Incubator – $500 – Truth, racial healing and transformation program
  • CASA of Travis County – $40,000 – Advocacy for children in the foster care system
  • Ecology Action of Texas – $5,000 – Future forest
  • I Live Here I Give Here – $10,000 – Capacity Building to Further Community Impact
  • Keep Austin Beautiful, Inc. – $10,000 – Community engagement days
  • Travis Audubon Society – $5,000 – Education and research at Blair Woods Sanctuary
  • TreeFolks – $5,000 – Austin urban-suburban tree inventory environmental pilot in citizen science (Austin EPICS)
• Education

  2020 recipients (YTD)

  • Austin Chamber Music Center – $10,000 – Chamber music education in schools
  • BookSpring – $1,000 – Books for Me program
  • Crowe’s Nest Farm, Inc. – $20,500 – Pond restoration and wetlands habitat exhibit
  • Economic Growth Business Incubator (EGBI) – $10,000 – Helping small businesses survive during COVID-19
  • Girlstart – $10,000 – Girlstart After School: STEM education for high-need Central Texas girls

  2019 recipients

  • Adoption Advocates, Inc. – $1,000 – Community adoption center
  • Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at The University of Texas at Austin – $6,000 – Speak Up! Speak Out! Third-fifth grade expansion
  • Austin Science Education Foundation – $5,000 – Austin energy regional science festival 2020
  • College Forward – $1,000 – Central Texas college access and success
  • Grameen America, Inc. – $3,000 – Grameen America Austin
  • Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation – $10,000 – Escuela nueva campus
  • Seedling Foundation – $2,000 – Building a foundation for success for children with an incarcerated parent
  • The University of Texas at Austin – $2,000 – Texas prison education initiative: college courses for incarcerated women
  • Workers Defense Project, Inc. – $30,000 – Adult education and training
  • Youth Recovery Network – $500 – Capacity building – merger
• Environment

  2020 recipients (YTD)

  • Hill Country Conservancy, Inc. – $10,000 – Conservation and community collaboration/engagement; now and forever
  • Save Barton Creek Association – $12,218 – Barton Creek TimeStream: An interactive exhibit chronicling 50 years of stewardship on Barton Creek
  • Sustainable Food Center (SFC) – $250 – Building climate resilience in the food system

  2019 recipients

  • Pease Park Conservancy – $15,000 – Revitalization of Kingsbury Commons at Pease Park
  • Waller Creek Conservancy – $50,000 – Renovation & revitalization of Symphony Square
• Health

  2019 recipients

  • Austin Clubhouse – $14,500 – Whole health and wellness program
  • Austin Diaper Bank – $1,000 – Diaper distribution program
  • Austin Recovery Inc. – $30,500 – Mobile outpatient programming
  • Capital Area Dental Foundation – $30,000 – Volunteer recruitment & community dental day initiative
  • Catholic Charities of Central Texas – $16,000 – Mental health awareness & services for underserved populations
  • Central Texas Food Bank – $15,000 – Health garden expansion
  • half Helen Foundation – $25,000 – Optical Prime: Transforming vision services for children
  • HOPEAUSTIN – $20,500 – Children’s backpack program
  • Meals on Wheels Central Texas In-Home Care – $10,000 – In-home care
  • Project Transitions – $50,000 – Overnight medical care providers
  • SAFE – $35,500 – Residental services for youth in the foster care system
  • The Refuge for DMST – $500 – Colors of Hope equine therapy at the Refuge Ranch
  • Spirit Reins – $1,000 – Closing the gap in family services
  • Volunteer Healthcare Clinic – $55,000 – VHC medical services program
  • We Are Blood – $55,000 – Mobile blood drive expansion project
  • Wonders and Worries – $15,000 – Expansion, outreach and volunteer recruitment
  • YWCA of Greater Austin – $16,000 – Access to innovative mental health services (AIMHS)
• Human Services/Basic Needs

  2020 recipients (YTD)

  • Bastrop County Food Pantry – $5,000 – Emergency food assistance
  • Foster Angels of Central Texas – $2,000 – Direct support and capacity building to assist children & youth in Central Texas foster care
  • Golden Age Home – $10,000 – Subsidized housing program
  • Helping Hand Home for Children – $10,000 – Therapeutic residential treatment for abused and neglected children
  • Upbring – $2,000 – BeREAL Austin-San Marcos

  2019 recipients

  • Affordable Central Texas, Inc. – $1,000 – Austin housing conservancy fund launch
  • Center for Child Protection – $40,500 – Forensic interview program
  • Drive a Senior Central Texas – $25,000 – Programming
  • Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services – $1,000 – Austin child and family program
  • Saint Louise House – $15,500 – Wraparound services for women and children
• Recreation
  • YMBL Sunshine Camp – $15,000 – Zilker Summer Camp (2018 recipient)