T.L.L. Temple Foundation Grants for Eastern Texas

Tami Musick
tmusick@tlltf.org
936.634.3900

The T.L.L. Temple Foundation offers grants for projects in the Foundation service area of rural communities in Eastern Texas.

Priority areas include:

• Economic opportunity
  • Broadband access
  • Developing the workforce
  • Improving housing availability and affordability
  • Enabling working families to access quality childcare and early learning opportunities
  • Supporting financial literacy and stability
  • Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Health
  • Provider availability (Rural residency programs, hiring incentives, other recruitment and retention practices)
  • Affordable health insurance
  • Care delivery models
  • Community health and wellness
  • Supporting healthcare institutions and programs
  • Addressing emergent health issues
  • Providing transportation to healthcare
  • Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Human services
  • Food insecurity
  • Safety net and social services
  • Providing transportation to services
  • Responding to disasters
• Education
  • Early literacy and numeracy
  • Post-secondary success and workforce development
  • Supporting out-of-school time programs
  • Improving teacher quality
  • Providing curriculum supports
• Arts and culture
  • Supporting arts education
  • Capital and infrastructure projects
  • Supporting arts and culture organizations, libraries, schools, and other entities that provide arts and cultural experiences to students and residents

Strategic plan

Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations, agencies, and programs in rural Eastern Texas.

Grant amounts are not stated. Past awards have ranged up to $1,000,000, with average annual giving around $26.5 million.

A link to the online application system is available on the program website.