North Texas Community Foundation Announces Grant Recipients

Last month, the North Texas Community Foundation (NTCF) announced the recipients of two grant cycles, awarding over $207,000 to area nonprofits.

NTCF works with local donors to award grants to nonprofits and organizations that serve North Texas by developing and managing custom charitable giving plans for individuals, families, businesses and private foundations. Our flexibility allows your client to maximize tax-savings benefits while growing their charitable funds to support the causes they care about most. By focusing on such areas as racial equity, scholarship, land conservation, first responders, and animal welfare, NTCF is able to help our region thrive.

The current grant cycle focused on land conservation and animal welfare. The Anita Berry Martin Memorial Fund was endowed to make grants to aid in land conservation, equine therapy, and equine welfare, while the Helen D. and R.E. Wallace Foundations Fun provides aid to animal welfare programs.

“This year’s grant recipients represent strong, local efforts dedicated to humane treatment, care and well-being of animals and the conservation of land in our region,” says Rose Bradshaw, president and CEO of North Texas Community Foundation. “Organizations in these fields typically have lean operating budgets and limited staff. Thanks to the generosity of donors who have provided endowed support for this important work, local nonprofits will continue protecting our animals and natural environments.”

The Anita Berry Martin Memorial Fund awarded a total of $116,000 to the following organizations:

• All Star Equestrian Foundation: To support veterinary expenses, farrier services, supplements and feed for their herd.
• Botanical Research Institute of Texas: To support a pilot project around sustainable ranching and publication of findings.
• Camp Fire First Texas: To provide funding for Title 1 schools to attend the Texas Outdoor Education Center.
• City of Weatherford: To support the pasture renovations and provide a safe space for the rescued equine.
• Fossil Rim Wildlife Center: For the purchase of a bulldozer to help protect, conserve, and re-establish native Texas habitat through juniper management and planting native grass.
• Great Plains Restoration Council: To support a weeklong prairie restoration work event utilizing the participants in the Restoration Not Incarceration™ program.
• MHMR Visions: To provide equine therapy for the teens in the residential treatment center.
• National Wildlife Federation: To help the recovery of monarch butterflies through empowering Fort Worth ISD students, teachers and community members to create milkweed habitats.
• Parker County Sheriff’s Office: To provide specialized veterinary services for abused and neglected horses in Parker County.
• Stars and Strides Therapeutic Riding Center: To support veterinary expenses and farrier services for elderly equine.
• T.E.P.S With Horses: For general operations support.
• University of North Texas Foundation: To reestablish, protect and conserve 85 acres of prairie lands at Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area.
• Victory Therapy Center: To support veterinary expenses and farrier services of their equine.
• Wings of Hope: To provide agricultural and facility improvements for the equine in their care.

The Helen D. and R.E. Wallace Foundation Fund gave a total of $91,360 to the following organizations:

• Allie’s Haven Animal Rescue: For the veterinary care of abused and neglected dogs.
• Animal Investigation and Response: For supplies to equip the Field Response Team.
• Apollo Support & Rescue: To provide vaccinations, spay/neuter surgeries, heartworm testing and preventive care.
• Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society: For trainers to evaluate then train rescued horses to be adopted out.
• Buster’s Friends: To support spay/neuter surgeries, specialty animal care and vaccinations.
• Don’t Forget to Feed Me: To purchase cat and dog food to distribute to the community.
• Forever Home International Dog Sanctuary: For the veterinary and dental care of the dogs in the sanctuary.
• Friends of Arlington Animal Services: To provide spay/neuter surgeries for feral cats served through the Trap-Neuter-Return program and heartworm treatment for dogs.
• Humane Society of North Texas:
• To support the welfare of equine rescued from cruelty in their Johnson County facility.
• To support the extended care, rehabilitation and adoption preparation for pets rescued from cruelty and neglect.
• Mid-Cities Community Cats: To provide spay/neuter surgeries for feral cats served through the Trap-Neuter-Return program and medication.
• Panther City Feral Cat Coalition: To provide medical care for injured and ill cats who are feral or abandoned.
• Ranch Hand Rescue: To support the care of rescued animals that are incorporated into their counseling program.
• Remember Me Rescue: For veterinary and farrier services of the retired, geriatric racehorses in their rescue.
• Saving Hope Animal Rescue Fund: To provide spay/neuter surgeries for the animals in foster care and prepare them for adoption.
• Saving Hope Foundation: To support the Snip, Snip, Hooray!
• Spay Neuter Network: To provide spay/neuter surgeries for dogs and cats in Fort Worth.
• Texas Coalition for Animal Protection: To support the Fort Worth Fix program providing spay/neuter services for pets of low-income residents in Fort Worth.

To learn more about what North Texas Community Fund can do for you, click here or call 817-877-0702.