• Alvin Community College Foundation Inc.: $8,000 to supply the Alvin Community College Biotechnology program with the necessary tools to address proper laboratory training and procedures. Centrally located, the Alvin Community College Biotechnology program is within thirty miles of seven biomanufacturing companies.
• Blue Sky Therapeutic Riding and Respite: $5,000 to install gutters on Adele's Barn, as well as a rainwater collection system.
• Bosque Emergency Support Team: $4,408 to purchase a generator, refrigerator, rehab vehicle cab a/c, computer for office functions, and printer.
• Bosque Spay Neuter: $4,500 to fund a program catering to the elderly and military veterans to provide no-cost spay/neuter and food, enabling their pets to stay in their homes and thrive, for the good of both the pet and the owner(s). 
• Brazoria County Alliance for Children: $8,000 to fund laboratory testing for child sexual abuse victims. The Center is on track to provide 96 sexual assault exams to children who have experienced sexual abuse, with laboratory testing conducted as needed.
• Children’s Advocacy Center of Hood & Somervell Counties, Inc.: $2,000 to fund a robust prevention education program in the schools through an event that will raise awareness and assist in future funding efforts to expand the programs in Somervell County. The event would be scheduled during April - Child Abuse Prevention Month. The funds would provide an opportunity to expand on what they are currently able to offer to the community.
• Christian Community Action: $5,000 to ensure that every individual and family accessing CCA's Food Pantry receives the necessary hygiene items they require every week. This objective is aimed at eliminating the difficult choices individuals face between hygiene products and other living expenses.
• Clear Creek Education Foundation: $3,566 to developing a STEAM Makerspace bus to travel to CCISD schools to support STEM and Makerspace activities. 
• College of Mainland Foundation: $8,000 to fund provide continuing education program students with scholarships ranging between $500 and $1,000 to use toward tuition and supplies. These scholarships will lead to life-changing career opportunities for approximately 10-20 CE students.
• Dickinson ISD Education Foundation Inc.: $5,000 for the introduction of 3D printers at Dickinson ISD junior high schools that hold immense promise for enhancing the learning experience and exposing students to the world of AutoCAD. This integration fosters hands-on learning, technological literacy, and collaboration while nurturing essential life skills.
• EquiHope: $5,000 to fund the rider scholarship fund to serve families with this very effective Equine Therapy by providing 40 more scholarship lessons.
• Fossil Rim Wildlife Center: $10,000 to make the Overlook area more accessible to all visitors by connecting sidewalks/paths between Overlook buildings and attractions to be better suited for those with mobility challenges. 
• Gatesville Fire Department: $5,000 to fund a Land Leveler that will enable the department to leave the land in usable condition. Gatesville Fire Department has an assigned area of 257 square miles plus provides mutual aid to all of Coryell County.
• Hearts for Homes: $5,000 to be used for building materials still needed to build a home for a Pilot Point family in need.
• Kermit Volunteer Fire Department: $5,000 to fund additional lightweight, lower temperature gear will allow firefighters to perform duties in extreme weather conditions more efficiently.
• Leadership Fort Stockton: $2,500 to fund the Youth Leadership and the Adult Leadership programs with the goal of equipping the community with enthusiastic leaders.
• Lewisville Area Chamber of Commerce: $5,000 to enable the Lewisville Area Chamber to support community-led efforts to address issues and make a positive impact on people's lives.
• Literacy Coalition of the Permian Basin: $5,000 to grow their reach with programming and building literacy infrastructure in the most rural and geographically isolated areas of the Permian Basin with more than 75+ partners and stakeholders.
• Montague Volunteer Fire Department: $10,000 to fund wireless headsets for (5) trucks. The primary accomplishment is to enhance safety for both the fireman, community and pre-pare for future growth. 
• Papa’s Pantry: $5,000 to fund to purchase food for distribution to the hungry people in Somervell County during the 4th quarter of 2023 by purchasing basic food items for the many families that are helped monthly. 
• Pediplace: $5,000 to fund Reach Out and Read Project which provides new children's books to children 6 months through 5 years of age. Literacy is a complementary part of PediPlace's program.
• Peoria Volunteer Fire Department Inc.: $5,000 to fund to purchase six new sets of gear for those firefighters with the objective of protecting the firefighter from burns or other injury.
• Petrolia Volunteer Fire Department: $10,000 to purchase new Bay doors for the station. The current doors are 30 years old, require daily, if not weekly maintenance and repairs, and take time to open and shut. New doors will help secure the department, as well as provide easy access when responding to calls for opening and of shutting doors. These doors would help to better serve the community they protect.
• Rains County Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library: $5,000 to underwrite the cost of books for 370 children at $27.00 per child per year in 2024.
• Ringgold Volunteer Fire Department: $4,997 to purchase two Tait TP9400 PSAP radios and four 1" spray nozzles. The radios are crucial for effective communication during emergency calls. The 1" spray nozzles are critical to all firefighting operations. The nozzles are needed to upgrade the current leaking/older ones.
• Sharkarosa Zoo: $9,574 to provide two heaters, two evaporator coolers, and evaporator cooler media replacement pads to aid in controlling the climate in Lemur Lane.
• Texas Children’s Museum: $2,000 for general funding, helping pay the rent and utilities, and the other part will be used to improve the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) area. Updated to this area will likely have the greatest impact on the greater community of visitors.
• Whitney Wildcat Football League: $2,975 to purchase the following items: safety mats for cheer, cooling stations for players and volunteers, an ice machine for injuries, additional first aid kits, field maintenance equipment, volleyball net systems, additional water coolers, guardian caps for football helmets, and safer practice equipment.

• Alvin Community College Foundation: $9,500 to fund the purchase of seven different ballistic training shields for the ACC Law Enforcement Training Academy.
• Association for Support of Local Arts and Music: $2,500 to fund three classes over the year for the public to attend for free as an introduction to creating art in various media, led by established area artists, and host an art show for local artists to encourage amateur artists to share work with the community and offer a place for established artists to showcase their work
• Aubrey Education Foundation: $5,000 to fund AEF’s Literacy Program, to increase literacy and foster a life-long love of reading.
• Blue Sky Therapeutic: $3,800 to fund the construction of a greenhouse to add to their PURPOSE garden.
• Bosque Animal Rescue Kennels: $10,000 to fund the intake of up to 100 dogs, new Microchip scanners that we can provide to Bosque County law enforcement, “Egg My Yard,” which in a community event BARK partners with Clifton High School's National Honors Society to provide eggs filled with candy to children's yards on Easter, and the Animal Emergency Fund, which is an account for dogs who are injured and in need of immediate vet care.
• Brazoria County Alliance for Children: $10,000 to fund new recording equipment for the Pearland, TX office. This project would allow for Brazoria County Alliance for Children, Inc. to conduct approximately 225 quality and accurate forensic interviews in Pearland.
• Brazoria County Dream Center: $10,000 to fund will help purchase food, and hygiene kits, and employ one AmeriCorps member for the Backpack Buddies Program.
• Brazoria Heritage Foundation: $8,000 to fund air conditioning units to preserve the past for the future.
• Children’s Advocacy Center for Denton County: $3,000 to fund an intensive training program, Lunch & Learns, or CAC101.
• College of Mainland Foundation: $10,000 to be distributed to deserving women enrolled at COM in amounts of $200, $500, or $1,000 based on student recipients’ program enrollment and semester needs. Funds provided by this grant will be added to other fundraising efforts dedicated to our Educate a Woman Scholarship Program throughout the year, so that we may help as many of our outstanding female students as possible.
• Communities in Schools Bay Area: $3,500 to fund the launching of the GROW Mentoring Program. Funds will be used to purchase Mentor Toolkits for the first year of implementation. The toolkit will be given to each volunteer mentor, so they have the supplies needed to engage with and establish a relationship with their mentee.
• Communities in Schools of North Texas: $10,000 to serve 2,000 students in 22 schools throughout Lewisville ISD who receive food pantry services during the 2022-2023 school year.
• Covington Volunteer Fire Department: $5,000 to fund structural firefighting PPE for each of our twenty-three members and SCBAs to outfit each of the six riding positions on our fire engines.
• Crawford Volunteer Fire Department: $4,500 to fund the purchase of items to increase the water sourcing and holding capacity of the department, cutting down on the time spent traveling to locations of hydrants as well as the time spent fighting the fires. 
• Devereux Advanced Behavior Health: $4,500 to support the educational communication needs of the youth in our autism/intellectual developmental disabilities (AU/IDD) residential program. The funds requested will specifically be used to purchase twenty tablets to teach functional communication skills as well as assist with all the program goals. 
• Happy Hill Farm Children’s Home: $3,000 to update internet equipment, classroom projectors, and laptops for students.
• Lone Oak ISD: $4,000 to send 12-14 teachers (Pre-K to 5th, 2-4 per grade) to attend GET YOUR TEACH ON, a one-of-a-kind experience that provides the most current research-based strategies where teachers will learn the best "tips, tricks, best practices, and teacher secrets to building a successful, engaging, and rigorous classroom.
• Morgan Volunteer Fire Department: $5,000 to fund the purchase of a generator for Morgan V.F.D. station. The goal is to provide provisional power for the Morgan V.F.D. station when the electricity fails in the area during severe storms.
• Nocona Lucky Paws: $2,500 to have concrete slabs installed in the existing outside pens. The concrete slabs are a better option for the dogs, it prevents the spread of fecal borne illness by allowing them to clean and disinfect the hard surfaces.
• Pediplace: $5,000 to fund the Reach Out and Read Project which provides new children's books to children 6 months through 5 years of age.
• Petrolia Volunteer Fire Department: $5,000 to fund gear lockers to help safely store and protect life safety gear. The gear is bunker turnout gear that is used to enter burning buildings. Firefighters depend on the longevivity of gear to stay safe.
• Special Abilities of North Texas: $4,000 to fund its community inclusion program.
• Steele Creek Acres Volunteer Fire Rescue: $5,000 to fund the purchase of a generator that would power the entire station, additional heaters, and a mini spilt A/C and heat unit. The need for these items come from impacts the community may have from storms, power outages and any other disaster that may leave the community without power, a warm or cool place to remain safe.
• Strawn Community Animal Rescue: $5,000 to fund the purchase of a transit van to move animals to vet appointments, help move food to persons who cannot otherwise pick it up, and more.
• Tri-County Senior Nutrition Project: $10,000 to fund new icemaker and replace the convection oven to help serve those in need of food.

• Actions of Brazoria County: $10,000 to help fund purchase of a van to be used for delivering meals to homebound senior citizens.
• Alvin Museum Society: $6,650 to fund its Versatile View digital tools to engage patrons inside and outside the museum.
• Clifton Baseball Assn.: $10,000 to fund upgrades to a playground adjacent to the ball fields.
• Communities in Schools of North Texas: $5,185 to fund purchases of STEM kits for Lewisville middle-school students.
• Communities in Schools for Southeast Harris and Brazoria Counties: $6,766 to fund social-emotional learning software for elementary, junior high and high schools in five ISDs.
• Dickinson ISD Foundation: $10,000 to fund purchase of CPR and other first-responder training equipment.
• Early-Stage Coaches (Brazoria Co.): $2,250 to fund coaching sessions with clients affected by Alzheimer's.
• Friendswood ISD Foundation: $8,700 to fund purchase of CPR and other first-responder training equipment.
• Friends of LLELA (Lewisville): $6,681 to fund purchase of equipment and supplies to be used in upgrading of hiking trails and the natural environment.
• Galveston County Food Bank: $8,000 to fund safety upgrades in the food bank's facility.
• HRA Village (Texas City): $3,115 to purchase an AED and related medical materials.
• Journey to Dream (Lewisville): $10,000 to fund training for staff members who work with teens in need.
• Junior Achievement of Brazoria County: $4,375 to fund purchase of training materials for soft-skill training for students in grades 6-12.
• Lucky Paws Animal Shelter (Nocona): $5,000 to fund purchase of a heater for the animals in winter.
• Meridian Library: $7,568 to fund purchase and installation of book boxes for sharing of library materials.
• Nocona Volunteer Fire Department: $8,495 to fund purchase of a drying cabinet for firefighters' turnout gear.
• Smart Family Literacy: $8,244 to purchase books for elementary school students in the Dickinson and La Marque ISDs.
• Warrior's Refuge (Brazoria Co.): $10,000 to purchase hardware and software for IT job-training for veterans.
• Women's Service Club of Emory: $8,971 to purchase books for pre-school children in Rains County.

• Community Health Network: $8,000 to fund Covid-19 testing in Angleton, Alvin and Pearland.
• Texas Lighthouse Foundation: $10,000 to fund a generator to power its Friendswood kitchen, where food is prepared for first responders and others after natural and man-made disasters.
• Harvest for the Hungry: $10,000 to fund a vegetable garden for people facing food insecurity in Brazoria County.
• Hamilton Civic Theater: $10,000 to fund socially distanced, outdoor movie nights.
• Bosque Arts Center: $7,154 to fund a sound system upgrade for the Clifton playhouse.
• Pediplace: $5,000 to fund purchase of books to be sent home to encourage reading among its pediatric patients in Lewisville.
• Keep Lewisville Beautiful: $9,000 to fund pollinator gardens across the city.
• College of the Mainland Foundation: $9,925 to fund materials to be used in emergency medical technician training at the Texas City campus.
• Resource Crisis Center: $6,718 for food and grocery staples, including cleaning supplies, for residents receiving assistance at the center.
• Mainland Community Crime Stoppers: $9,458 to assist funding of 2021 operations on Texas City ISD campuses.
• Keep Olney Beautiful: $9,825 to help fund a new concrete playing surface for a basketball court at a city park.
• Terrell County Animal Humane: $4,920 to fund a new fence to enhance animal safety and a recycling trailer to aid the agency's ongoing funding efforts in Sanderson.

• Birthday Joy: $7,500 for the Community Foster Joy Fund for kids in Dickinson and League City.
• Blue Sky Therapeutic Riding & Respite: $5,000 to help fund a safety lighting project at the Krugerville facility.
• Children's Advocacy Center of Denton Co.: $5,000 for transportation support for clients and staff.
• Dickinson ISD Foundation: $10,000 for new library books for students at all grade levels.
• Edwards Memorial Walk and Bike Trail: $7,000 for rail upgrades and new signage for the trail in Brazoria.
• Friends of LLELA: $2,411 for backpacks and accompanying educational supplies for hikers at the Lewisville Lake Enviromental Learning Area.
• Gulf Coast Crime Prevention Association: $8,170 for off-site training for small agency law enforcement officers in Brazoria County.
• Hico ISD Foundation: $10,000 to help fund the inaugural Family Day for kids, parents and teachers.
• HRA Independence Village: $3,240 for computers and software to support digital training for staff members in Texas City.
• Lewisville Lake Symphony: $2,000 for tickets to introduce underserved students to symphony music.
• Meridian Library Association: $5,000 for new books.
• Mission Righteous Roots: $8,440 for training for staff members at a new family shelter facility in Gatesville.
• Pilot Point ISD PTA: $2,446 for a Buddy Bench and playground upgrades at elementary school.
• Saint Jo ISD Foundation: $9,945 for STEM and physics program equipment and materials.
• Sistahs Empowering Sistahs: $4,598 to help support leadership and business training for school-aged girls in Dickinson, La Marque and Texas City.
• SMART Family Literacy: $5,000 for books and other educational materials for kids in Dickinson, La Marque and Texas City.
• Tails & Trails Museum: $4,250 for a public-address system for emergency safety messages at the Nocona facility.

• Alvin Community College: $9,750 for structural upgrades to provide greater protection for students and staff members from on-campus security threats.
• Angleton ISD Education Foundation: $9,079 to fund purchase of supplies for the Making Math Come Alive student program.
• Brazoria County Alliance for Children: $4,018 to fund upgrades to the agency training facility.
• Christian Community Action in Lewisville: $10,000 to fund purchases of Chromebooks, software and GED exam materials for financially challenged clients.
• City of Princeton Library: $7,870 for computer programs to enhance literacy achievements for children and adults.
• City of Tom Bean: $2,155 for a tornado siren radio-controller box, enabling remote activation that allows city employees to remain inside and safer during emergencies.
• City of Valley Mills: $10,000 to fund flashing LED stop signs and other traffic safety upgrades at an intersection adjacent to the kid-friendly Splash Pad Park.
• College of the Mainland Foundation in Texas City: $10,000 for additional funding for the Random Acts of Kindness program that assists students facing financial emergencies.
• Communities in Schools Bay Area: $5,000 to fund social-emotional learning professional development for agency staff.
• Fort Stockton Middle School: $4,726 to fund materials for an agricultural project for students in STEM classes.
• Hope Active: $4,314 for additional school supplies and wellness opportunities for low-income ISD students in Galveston County.
• Lewisville ISD Foundation: $7,500 to fund the purchase of firefighter helmets for students in the district's firefighter dual-credit certification program.
• Texas City ISD Foundation for the Future: $8,500 to fund a mobile library for La Marque students whose classes are housed at temporary campuses due to Hurricane Harvey damage.
• West Shore Civic Association in Whitney: $2,588 to fund upgrades to the community Civic Center.
• Winkler County Hospital: $4,500 to fund purchase of a radio system to provide reliable communications during emergencies.

• Alvin ISD Education Foundation: $5,000 toward its Book Bus and READy Program that provides educational materials to help parents encourage pre-literacy and reading readiness among preschool children.
• Boy Scouts of America – Bay Area Council: $5,000 toward renovation and repairs of Camp Karankawa facilities damaged by Hurricane Harvey.
• Children’s Advocacy Center of Denton Co.: $4,765 for medical and other materials used by staff members in investigations.
• Dickinson Public Library: $5,000 to expand its computer science coding program for teens.
• Hill Co. Gardeners Association: $5,000 toward safety lighting for the new Whitney Veterans Memorial Park.
• Keep Olney Beautiful: $5,000 toward safety lighting for the walking trail at Tom Griffin City Park.
• North Montague Co.: Historical Society and Museum: $5,000 toward upgrading and improving Enid Justin City Park in Nocona.
• Reeves Co. Hospital: $5,000 toward a community garden that will allow residents to plant, tend and harvest organically grown fruits and vegetables in Pecos.
• Resource and Crisis Center of Galveston Co.: $2,600 for clients’ job training and professional development courses.
• Sweeny ISD Education Foundation: $3,935 for Clevertouch Interactive Displays to expand STEM options for high school students.
• Valley Mills Library Association: $3,700 for an educational gardening and water-use summer project for kids.

The TNMP Fund in spring 2015 introduced TNMP Power Grants to invest in our communities. The fund sought innovative and creative proposals that support the communities TNMP serves.

For the 2016 grants, more than 50 qualified 501(c)3 nonprofits, municipalities and school districts applied for grants up to $5,000 each. A total of $50,000 in funding was available.

Funding priorities included: community safety.

• economic development
• education
• environment

2016 recipients

• Alvin Volunteer Fire Department, $5,000: Purchase of Stovetop Firestop devices and fire extinguishers for distribution to single parents, low-income families and senior citizens in need.
• Aubrey Area Library, $4,234: Purchase of equipment to enable patrons to complete self-service transactions when they check out library materials.
• City of Blossom, $5,000: Purchase new and updated playground equipment to expand the appeal to children at the city park, including adaptive equipment for children with different abilities.
• Columbia Blooms, $5,000: Purchase of materials and plants for two gardens at the First Capitol of Texas Park in West Columbia in a project to educate the community about the importance of rain gardens and storm water abatement.
• City of Fort Stockton, $5,000: Purchase of materials for the first segment of a walking trail along North Rio Street.
• Galveston County Food Bank, $5,000: Purchase of Kidz Pacz, which are filled with nonperishable food that is both nutritious and kid-friendly and will help bridge the summer hunger gap for children facing food insecurity.
• Lake Whitney Ministerial Alliance, $5,000: Purchase of materials to be used in construction of a new food-preparation room to be built in accordance with applicable health codes.
• Nellie Pederson Civic Library, $4,000: Purchase of 150 books and 30 audio books for kids in Clifton area. These include books that are specific for juvenile-age readers and for younger children.
• City of Leonard, $3,500: Funding toward the purchase of a fountain for the town's lake, part of an overall project to increase the lake's appeal.
• Sweeny Elementary School, $3,344: Purchase of supplies and other materials for use in academic science experiment for students in each grade level, each day for one hour per day.
• Whitewright Public Library, $4,922: Purchase of new seating and tables appropriate for current-day patrons as well as replacement carts for use by library staff.

The TNMP Fund in spring 2015 introduced TNMP Power Grants to invest in our communities. The fund sought innovative and creative proposals that support the communities TNMP serves.

More than 50 qualified 501(c)3 nonprofits, municipalities and school districts applied for grants up to $5,000 each. A total of $30,000 in funding was available.

Funding priorities included:

• community safety
• economic development
• education
• environment

2015 recipients

• Alvin Community College Foundation, $5,000: Ten students meeting financial needs will receive $500 scholarships to complete vocational training and begin job interviews in their chosen industries.
• City of Emory, $5,000: Funding will go toward the purchase and installation of three bridges over a creek that will help complete a walking trail in a 12-acre park on land acquired in 2013.
• Gatesville Public Library, $3,727: The library’s robotics program, which was limited to 15 young people last year, will expand to 25 and add 3D design and printing.
• Hamilton ISD, $3,861: Students in grades 1-8 will build a garden using Aquaponics, which uses nutrient-rich fish tank water to provide plant food to vegetables and herbs in grow beds as can yield up to 20 times more produce than growth in traditional soil.
• College of the Mainland, $4,830: Twenty pair of high-quality, water-resistant binoculars will be purchased to enable biology and geology students at the Texas City school to study nesting birds around Galveston Bay. Students in an over-50 continuing education program also will use the binoculars for similar projects.
• M.I. Lewis Social Service Center, $2,582: Additional groceries will be purchased from the Galveston County Food Bank for scheduled deliveries to 40 homebound senior citizens in the Dickinson area.
• City of Nocona, $5,000: Expansion of the current basic recycling program to enhance rural residents' options via a single drop-off location for all household recyclables.