Bexar Audubon South Central Texas
Community Grant Program
Empower your ideas, protect the birds.
Apply for a mini-grant with Bexar Audubon South Central Texas
to contribute to conservation in our area.
The Bexar Audubon South Central Texas Community Mini-grant Program
This program provides grants up to $1500 for for community-facing, conservation-related projects that positively impacts birds.
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.
Below are the requirements for the program.
- Projects must involve the area served by BASCTX (Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, and Wilson counties)
- Projects will have an educational component or focus on public property
- Projects will include an explanation of the community engagement component
- Grant applicant(s) will serve as project manager and be responsible for grant reporting of specified information
- Projects may be a new one-year project, or part of a larger and/or longer-term project. However, this program will only fund a specific effort that may be completed within a twelve-month period
- Mini-grant funding may be combined with other private or public funds.
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 2026-2027 grant cycle include:
- Applications open -
Monday August 10, 2026 - Application due date -
Monday, September 28, 2026 - Awardee notification -
Monday, October 26, 2026 - Funds Delivered by -
Monday, November 13, 2026
Here is an example of what one project sent in as documentation of completion.