Focus Areas
The intersection of land, food, and community resilience is the foundation’s core thesis. Native plant preservation, seed sovereignty, regenerative agriculture, local food systems, and land conservation are all part of the same answer: how do communities sustain themselves on a hotter, less stable planet?
We organize our giving around three program areas.
Ecological Resilience
Texas is ground zero for heat, drought, and biodiversity loss. We fund native plant conservation, seed banking, and land stewardship — the organizations doing the slow, essential work of keeping ecosystems intact.
We fund the organizations, but also the connective tissue between them: research partnerships, shared seed banks, and advocacy for native habitat on public land.
Anchor grantees include:
- Native Plant Society of Texas
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Seed Savers Exchange
- Native Seeds/SEARCH
- Texas Land Conservancy
- Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Community Food Sovereignty
Urban and peri-urban food systems are infrastructure, not amenities. We fund organizations that build local food production capacity, particularly in underserved communities. This is where ecology meets equity — food access is both.
Anchor grantees include:
- Elmwood Farm
- Bonton Foundation
- Kuluntu Bakery
- Mission Oak Cliff
- North Texas Food Bank
Global Health
We maintain a significant allocation to GiveWell because the utilitarian case for cost-effective life-saving never goes away. GiveWell directs funds to rigorously evaluated interventions in global health — deworming, malaria prevention, direct cash transfers — where each dollar does the most measurable good.
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