Community Grant Program

The Bexar Audubon South Central Texas Community Mini-grant Program

This program provides grants from $100-$1000 for community projects in our 10-county region that further the goals of Bird City Texas.   The goal is to encourage people to protect birds and their habitats while increasing public awareness of the benefits of bird conservation with “hands in dirt” projects.   

Past projects have provided pollinator gardens, nest boxes, watering features, school education programs, bird blinds, binoculars or other tools for bringing people to birds, art that educates including children’s books about birds, and much more.   

Participants have come from schools, HOAs, PTAs, nonprofits, NGOs, and religious organizations - basically, any civic-minded group that embraces the importance of nature and has a platform for sharing their passion on a public scale.  The program is open ended. 

Assessment criteria include: 

• Number of people exposed to projects
• Helping underserved communities 
• Educational benefit 
• Impact on birds or other natural elements 
• Creativity 
• Feasibility 

To apply for a grant, fill the application to tell us about your project, then email the completed application and budget info to grants@bexaraudubon.org. 

Eligible counties are Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, and Wilson. 

Key dates for the 2025-26 award season:

• Application due date: October 6, 2025 (extended from a previous deadline)
• Awardees notified: October 20, 2025
• Funds delivered by: November 10, 2025
• Final report and return of unused funds: December 11, 2026
• Progress report: June 12, 2026

Here is an example of what one project sent in as documentation of completion.