Past Awarded Grants

Year	Recipient	Project	Amount
2026	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Wings over Welder: Inspiring Youth Through Migration Science and Land Stewardship	$10,000.00
2026	Harte Research Institute	Southern Flounder Migration Timing in South Texas: Assessing Alignment with the fall fishery closure	$10,000.00
2026	Youth Odyssey	Youth In Action: Experiential Conservation Education and Environmental Leadership at Westside Helping Hand	$10,000.00
2026	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Evaluating the effect of guineagrass on wild turkey productivity and space-use patterns	$10,000.00
2026	Harte Research Institute	Seasonal Dynamics of Oyster Reef Recruitment Across the Texas Coast	$6,500.00
2026	Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation	Texas A&M University-Kingsville Wildlife students duck hunt	$3,500.00
2025	Harte Research Institute	Colonial waterbird rookery island loss on the upper coast of Texas	$ 10,000.00
2025	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Mountain Lion abundance and foraging ecology in South Texas	$ 10,000.00
2025	Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi	Estuarine Gamefish Habitat Use and Connectivity Among Oyster Reefs in the Texas Coastal Bend	$ 10,000.00
2025	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Sparking Fire Education: Utilizing Partnerships to Expand Fire Education in Texas Universities	$ 10,000.00
2025	Texas Brigades	Texas Brigades: Summer Camps Impacting Coastal and South Texas	$ 10,000.00
2024	Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program	Rain Garden Installation at Sarita Elementary School	$ 10,000.00
2024	Harte Research Institute	Juvenile Tarpon Residency and Habitat Use in Texas Coastal Bend Nurseries	$ 10,000.00
2024	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Exploration & Discovery: Building New Paths to the Future of Wildlife Conservation	$ 10,000.00
2024	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Evaluation of Chronic Stress in Two Wild Quail Species in Response to Environmental Factors	$ 9,786.00
2024	FlatsWorthy	Proper Handling & Release of Fish including Tarpon, Redfish & Speckled Trout	$ 7,500.00
2024	Harte Research Institute	The Gulf Stream Podcast	$ 7,500.00
2023	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Rangeland Curriculum Online Course	$ 10,000.00
2023	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Evaluating the use of Drones to Estimate White-tailed Deer pollution sizes	$ 10,000.00
2023	Texas Brigades	Texas Brigades: Summer Camps Impacting Coastal and South Texas	$ 5,000.00
2023	FlatsWorthy	FlatsWorthy Expansion & Production of videos	$ 5,000.00
2023	Harte Research Institute	Refining field methods for oyster reef carbon sequestration: implications for conservation, restoration, and mitigation of atmospheric CO2	$ 10,000.00
2023	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	A Talk on the Wild Side	$ 10,000.00
2023	Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi	Reconstructing Tarpon’s Past: Scale historic archives as windows into Atlantic tarpon fisheries	$ 5,000.00
2022	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Conservation & Hunting Heritage Programs	$ 10,000.00
2022	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	A Quail-Season Forecasting Tool to Aid Quail-Harvey Management in South Texas	$ 7,500.00
2022	Texas Brigades	STBOB, STRB, WTFL, & Coast Brigades	$ 8,856.00
2022	Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi Foundation	Outreach and training: Workshop on best practices for surveying nesting colonial waterbirds with small unmanned aerial systems	$ 10,000.00
2022	Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation	Stewards of the Wild Mentored Hunting Initiative	$ 5,000.00
2022	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Wildlife Acoustic Monitoring, Education, and Research in the Coastal Bend	$ 8,000.00
2022	Wildlife in Focus	Kritters4 Kids Peers teaching peers Natural Science Education Videos	$ 10,000.00
2022	FlatsWorthy	FlatsWorthy Expansion	$ 2,500.00
2021	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	A Talk on the Wild Side	$ 100,000.00
2020	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Wildlife and Natural History Museum	$ 14,500.00
2020	Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program	Delta Discovery Homeschool Program	$ 10,000.00
2020	Harte Research Institute	An Assessment of Tarpon Recruitment Patterns, Movements, and Habitat Use in the Texas Coastal Bend	$ 10,000.00
2020	University of Texas – Austin	The Influence of Past Experiences on Future Performance in Redfish	$ 6,000.00
2020	Texas Brigades	STBOB, STBUB, COAST	$ 5,000.00
2020	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 5,000.00
2020	Trinity Oaks	Hunting & Fishing Programs for People in Need	$ 5,000.00
2020	Wildlife in Focus	Kritter Cards	$ 4,500.00
2019	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 10,000.00
2019	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Rangelands & Home on the Range Training	$ 10,000.00
2019	Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi	Developing a public genomic library	$ 10,000.00
2019	Texas Brigades	STBOB, STBUB, COAST	$ 6,000.00
2019	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Improving the accuracy of UAV image acquisition	$ 6,000.00
2019	Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program	Where does our water come from?	$ 5,000.00
2019	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Insect availability to northern bobwhites	$ 3,000.00
2018	Amos Rehabilitation Keep	Hurricane Harvey Restoration Efforts	$ 10,000.00
2018	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Coastal Prairie Native Seeds Project	$ 6,000.00
2018	Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program	Delta Discovery	$ 6,000.00
2018	Harte Research Institute	Impacts of Hurricane Harvey on Cedar Bayou	$ 6,000.00
2018	Welder Wildlife Foundation	A Conservation Education Guide and Associated Home on The Range Teacher Training & Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow (CLfT)	$ 6,000.00
2018	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 2,800.00
2017	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Patterns of Gene Expression in the Northern Bobwhite	$ 7,500.00
2017	UTMSI	Cooperative Monitoring of Important Spawning Grounds for Sciaenid Fishes in the Coastal Bend	$ 7,500.00
2017	Welder Wildlife Foundation	A Conservation Education Guide and Associated Home on The Range Teacher Training & Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow (CLfT)	$ 5,000.00
2017	Texas Brigades	South Texas Buckskin Brigade (STBUB), South Texas Bobwhite Brigade (STBOB), & Coastal Brigade	$ 5,000.00
2017	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 5,000.00
2017	Wildlife in Focus	Kritters for Kids – The Next Generation	$ 5,000.00
2016	Wildlife in Focus	Kritters for Kids – The Next Generation	$ 10,000.00
2016	Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi	Freshwater inflow needs for conserving Texas oyster reefs	$ 8,500.00
2016	Welder Wildlife Foundation	A Conservation Education Guide and Associated Home on The Range Teacher Training & Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow (CLfT)	$ 7,500.00
2016	Texas Brigades	South Texas Buckskin Brigade (STBUB) & South Texas Bobwhite Brigade (STBOB)	$ 7,500.00
2016	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Quail Habitat Restoration on the Hixon Ranch	$ 6,000.00
2016	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 5,500.00
2016	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Factors influencing the spatial distribution and increase of tanglehead on South Texas rangelands	$ 5,000.00
2015	Harte Research Institute	The impact of Cedar Bayou on sportfish; electronically tracking Spotted Seatrout in a recently opened tidal inlet	$ 10,000.00
2015	Wildlife in Focus	Kritters for Kids – The Next Generation	$ 10,000.00
2015	Welder Wildlife Foundation	A Conservation Education Guide and Associated Home on The Range Teacher Training & Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow (CLfT)	$ 7,500.00
2015	Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation	Red Snapper Reporting Program	$ 7,000.00
2015	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 5,500.00
2015	Texas Brigades	South Texas Buckskin Brigade (STBUB) & South Texas Bobwhite Brigade (STBOB)	$ 5,000.00
2015	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Educational outreach informing landowners and restoration practitioners of the best practices for restoring lands affected by oil and gas activities	$ 5,000.00
2014	Texas Brigades	South Texas Buckskin Brigade & South Texas Bobwhite Brigade	$ 10,000.00
2014	TAMU-CC	Why Are Black Drum Starving in Baffin Bay	$ 10,000.00
2014	Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation	Southern Flounder Propagation Project	$ 10,000.00
2014	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 7,500.00
2014	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Conservation Across Boundaries – Texas & Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow	$ 7,500.00
2014	Wildlife in Focus	Kritters 4 Kids Environmental Science Program	$ 3,731.00
2013	CB Wildlife Habitat	Kritters 4 Kids Environmental Science Program	$ 10,000.00
2013	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Welder Wildlife Foundation Conservation and Hunting Heritage Programs	$ 7,500.00
2013	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 7,500.00
2013	TAMU-CC	Information for conserving essential fish habitat in Texas	$ 7,500.00
2013	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Research and development of management practices for restoring native vegetation to hunting areas affected by oil and gas production activities	$ 7,000.00
2013	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Effects of invasive grasses on ecosystem processes on the South Texas Sand Sheet	$ 5,000.00
2013	UTMSI	Mechanisms of salinity tolerance in the estuarine-dependent red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus	$ 5,000.00
2012	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 5,500.00
2012	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Soil Modification as a Restoration Tool	$ 5,000.00
2012	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Burning on Invasive Grasses	$ 4,997.00
2012	CB Wildlife Habitat	Kritters for Kids – Kritter Kamp	$ 5,000.00
2012	UTMSI	Tracking Atlantic Tarpon Migrations	$ 5,000.00
2012	TAMU-CC	Improving Southern Flounder Fisheries	$ 4,000.00
2012	TAMU-CC	Freshwater Cyanobacteria Toxins	$ 4,000.00
2012	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Quail Habitat Use	$ 4,500.00
2011	Harte Research Institute	Dolphin-fish in the Gulf of Mexico Research	$ 10,000.00
2011	CB Wildlife Habitat	Kritters for Kids	$ 8,550.00
2011	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 7,500.00
2011	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Conservation Across Boundaries	$ 5,000.00
2011	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow	$ 5,000.00
2011	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Native Seed Collection	$ 5,000.00
2010	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Effects of Tanglehead on Grassland Birds	$ 7,500.00
2010	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	South Texas Natives Project	$ 7,500.00
2010	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 7,500.00
2010	CB Wildlife Habitat	Kritters for Kids – Kritter Kamp	$ 6,900.00
2010	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Patch Burning and Grazing to Control Exotic Grasses	$ 5,500.00
2010	Camp Aranzazu	Wetlands Species Research Program	$ 5,000.00
2010	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Conservation Across Boundaries	$ 5,000.00
2010	TAMU-CC	Large Fish Predators Help Maintain Oyster Reef Habitats	$ 5,000.00
2009	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Grasses of South Texas	$ 5,000.00
2009	Harte Research Institute	Spotted Sea Trout Habitat Program	$ 10,000.00
2009	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 7,500.00
2009	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Ocelot Recovery Project	$ 7,500.00
2009	Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society	Mentored Hunting Workshop Series	$ 5,000.00
2009	UTMSI	Snook Spawning Project	$ 6,000.00
2009	The Boone & Crockett Club	Conservation Across Boundaries	$ 10,000.00
2008	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation & Texas Parks & Wildlife	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 7,500.00
2008	TAMU-K	Whitewing Dove Research	$ 5,000.00
2008	CB Wildlife Habitat	Wildlife Flash Cards Production	$ 6,000.00
2008	Images for Conservation	Book Two: Coastal Bend of Texas	$ 5,000.00
2008	Camp Aranzazu	Wildlife Observation Education Conservation Program	$ 10,000.00
2007	Camp Aranzazu	Wildlife Observation Education Conservation Program	$ 15,000.00
2007	UTMSI	Wetlands Education Center	$ 5,000.00
2007	CBBF	Earth Day – Bay Day	$ 5,000.00
2007	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Quail Food Study	$ 5,000.00
2007	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 5,000.00
2007	TAMU-CC	Texas Sea Shells Book	$ 3,000.00
2007	TAMU – Dept. Of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences	It’s a Long Way Home from Llano Book	$ 5,000.00
2006	Andy Sansom Scholarship Foundation	Andy Sansom Scholarship	$ 5,000.00
2006	Texas Ag-Experiment Station	Monitoring Status of High Fences in Texas	$ 10,000.00
2006	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Campaign tools and museum virtual walk-through	$ 5,000.00
2006	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 5,000.00
2006	CBBEP	Nueces Delta Preserve: Mud Between Toes Initiative	$ 5,000.00
2006	The Nature Conservancy of Texas	Seagrass Conservation and Protection Project	$ 5,000.00
2005	Welder Wildlife Foundation	Don Bowman Bird Museum	$ 11,500.00
2005	CB Wildlife Habitat	Kritters for Kids	$ 8,500.00
2005	Texas Wildlife Association Foundation	Texas Youth Hunting Program	$ 5,000.00
2004	TAMU- Dept. Of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences	Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico	$ 10,000.00
2004	TAMU- Dept. Of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences	Research Hispanic Knowledge of State Resources	$ 10,000.00
2004	Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute	Research Age and Productivity of Bobwhite Quail	$ 10,000.00
2003	Texas Nature Conservancy	Coastal Prairie Conservation Initiative at Refugio Prairie	$ 25,000.00
2003	TAMU- Dept. Of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences	Texas Northern Rolling Plains Quail Restoration	$ 25,000.00
2002	Boone & Crockett Club/ WWF	Conservation Across Boundaries	$ 25,000.00
2002	Dr. Andre Landry	Tarpon Research	$ 12,500.00
2002	Dr. Dale Rollins	Research on Bobwhite Quail	$ 12,500.00
2001	Dr. Andre Landry	Tarpon Research	$ 30,000.00
2000	Boone & Crockett Club/ WWF	Conservation Across Boundaries	$ 30,000.00
1999	UTMSI	Marine Finfish Resource of the Coastal Bend	$ 25,000.00
1998	Texas Parks & Wildlife	Bay Shrimper License Buyback Program	$ 25,000.00
		Total	$1,308,120.00

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