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Abbott Laboratories Community Investments
Program
(Irving and Austin, TX) -HIV/AIDS, science, education programs.
Arco
Foundation
The ARCO Foundation awards grants mainly in geographic areas where ARCO facilities and
employees are located -- the West, the Southwest, Alaska and the Rocky Mountain region.
Foundation grants are made in five program categories (education, community, arts and
humanities, the environment, and public information).
Aspect Telecommunications Community
Involvement
To focus our collective potential, we developed the Aspect Community Commitment Fund.
Through it, we fund local nonprofit and schools (public and private), focusing on the
education of children and youth in our communities. Santa Clara County, California,
Westchester County, New York, Dallas County, Texas, Cook County, Illinois.
Assistance
League of Houston
Nonprofit, philanthropic organization offering education and assistance to enhance the
quality of life for children and adults in Houston.
Arts Council of Northeast Tarrant County
Our mission is to promote, support, and facilitate cultural opportunities within the
communities of Northeast Tarrant County.
Lee
& Ramona Bass Foundation
Throughout the years, the directors and staff have sought to fulfill his vision by
providing grants primarily in the areas of education, health, human services, and the arts
and humanities.
Clorox
Company Foundation (Houston)
The Clorox Company Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in communities
where Clorox employees live and work. The Foundation makes grants, mobilizes employee
volunteers and works with community leaders and other funders.
Communities
Foundation of Texas
Current areas of interest include: youth, social services including senior
citizens, health,
religious, cultural and historical, inner-city/ community improvement, and education as
well as other areas, such as disaster relief, housing and scientific research.
Dallas Mavericks Foundation
The goal is to support programs stressing education, good health and the skills children
need to lead successful lives.
Dreyer's Foundation
- Houston
The Foundation has two grant programs which support learning. The Grand Expectations
Program supports unique programs and projects which promote excellence in young people and
establish high expectations for them. The "Dream The Dream" Competition rewards
young people who design a project or program that improves the quality of life for their
neighborhoods or communities and helps young people to learn how to learn. A limited
number of requests will be considered from
markets where Dreyer's or
Edy's products are sold (small grants) and where an employee is involved (large grants).
El Paso Community
Foundation
El Paso Community Foundation was established in 1977 as a permanent endowment for
the long-term benefit of Far West Texas, Southern New Mexico and Northern Chihuahua,
Mexico. It serves as a charitable resource to donors, nonprofit organizations and the
community at-large.
Entergy
Corporation

Portions of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas; London, England; Melbourne,
Australia; and Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hoblitzelle
Foundation
Grants made by the Directors are usually focused on specific, non-recurring needs of the
educational, social service, medical, cultural, and civic organizations in Texas,
particularly in the Dallas area.
Hogg
Foundation for Mental Health
Since 1940, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health has fulfilled its mandate "to
develop and conduct ... a broad mental health program of great benefit to the people of
Texas" (Miss Ima Hogg, 1939), through education and grants supporting mental health
service projects and research efforts in the state of Texas.
The
Houston Endowment
The Foundation's purpose, as stated in its articles of incorporation, is the support of
any charitable undertaking. The Foundation contributes to a broad spectrum of programs in
education, health care, human services, cultural arts, and other areas.
Houston, Texas - Housing
and Community Development
Several programs and initiatives as well as Block Grants
Kerrville Area Community Trust
Serving the Community of Kerrville, Texas
Kronkosky Charitable Foundation
Areas of Interest: Health and Human Services, Culture, Animals
The Meadows
Foundation

Foundation grants support work in the fields of arts and
culture, civic and public affairs, education, health and human services. The board has a
particular interest in imaginative, innovative ways to solve community problems through
projects leading to organizational self-sufficiency and in capital plans which enable
projects to flourish. It looks to support projects which eliminate ignorance, alleviate
pain and hopelessness, provide cultural enrichment, protect the environment, enhance
social skills and promote better human relations.
Munsch Hardt Community Involvement
Munsch Hardt plays an active roll in the Dallas and Austin communities. Both as a firm and
on an individual basis, we strive to give back to the communities in which we live.
Nolan
Ryan Foundation
The Nolan Ryan Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the Nolan Ryan Center
at Alvin Community College in Alvin, Texas.
Philanthropy
In Texas Online
Philanthropy in Texas informs and educates fund-raising executives, board members, donors,
and the trust and grant community about charitable giving as it relates to Texas.
Sid W.
Richardson Foundation
Areas of interest: Health Grants, Education Grants, Human Services Grants, Arts
Grants. Grant requests must be limited to programs and projects within the state of Texas.
No grants can be made to individuals.
San
Angelo Health Foundation
A San Angelo Health Foundation grant provides on-site meal service and
opportunities for improved cost efficiencies to Adult Day Care, which offers supervision
and activities for adults 18 years of age and over with chronic illnesses, physical or
social disabilities.
San Antonio Area Foundation
Emphasis: San Antonio Area
Santana Dotson Foundation -
Houston, TX
The Santana Dotson Foundation was established in 1995 to provide the financial and
emotional support needed by challenged, yet deserving high school students to realize
their dreams of a college education.
SBC Foundation
It's not surprising that most of our grants are directed to programs within Southwestern
Bell's five-state region where the bulk of our employees live and work. However, we do
support specific initiatives of non-profit organizations that are national in scope but
whose work can positively affect our key issues and the communities we serve. Texas,
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas
Texas-New
Mexico Power Company - News Release -
The Customer Connection program sponsored by Texas-New Mexico Power Company contributed in
excess of $53,275 in 1996, matching dollar amounts donated by customers to fund various
worthy community-based initiatives selected by community representatives. Read news
release for address where to submit request.
Texas
Space Grant Consortium
The Texas Space Grant Consortium is a group of 36 institutions which include universities,
industrial organizations, non-profit organizations, and government agencies within Texas
that are joined to ensure that the benefits of space research and technology are available
to all Texans.
Union Carbide - Community
(Clear Lake, Dallas, Garland, Houston, Markham, Seadrift, Texas City) The Union Carbide
Foundation, a $10 million charitable trust, funds programs that address education,
cultural and ethnic diversity and environmental protection.
The Waco
Foundation
To make a positive difference in the lives and future of the people who live in Waco and
McLennan County through grantmaking, promotion of community philanthropy, and support of
the not-for-profit sector.
Welch
Foundation
Emphasis: Chemical research at educational instutions within the State of Texas
Wells
Fargo Contributions Program
Wells Fargo's contributions are primarily directed to three areas: Community Development,
Pre-Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade education, Human Services. Priority is given to
requests whose primary purpose is to benefit low- and moderate-income individuals.
Wray Trust

The Wray Trust is a small family foundation which focuses
predominantly on environmental projects in Texas, including work on pollution control,
natural resources protection, sustainable technologies, and population stablization. They
also support environmental projects in Mexico, but to a much lesser degree. Finally, they
make trustee-initiated grants to arts organizations.
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