The Texas Hill Country is where the arid West and the humid East meet on a rolling limestone plateau cut by spring-fed rivers of astonishing clarity. Its aquifers rise as crystalline springs that feed the streams and sustain the cities downstream, and its oak-juniper woodlands shelter songbirds found nowhere else on Earth. It is also one of the fastest-growing regions in the country, and the water and the land are under mounting strain.
The organizations here protect the recharge zones that keep the springs flowing, conserve ranchland from subdivision, and safeguard the rare birds and clear rivers that define this beloved country. Their work is fundamentally about water, and about keeping the Hill Country’s springs alive in a drying, crowding land.
Environmental Organizations in This Bioregion
64 organizations working across this landscape.
Amigos de los Corales de Tela
Amigos de los Corales de Tela (ACT), a 501(c)(3) organization, was established to support the exceptionally healthy coral reefs in Tela, Honduras, which stand as a t...
A Rocha USA
A COMMUNITY OF CHRISTIANS LIVING OUT THE CALLING TO CARE FOR CREATION AND EQUIPPING OTHERS TO DO THE SAME THROUGH COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH.
Austin Parks Foundation
Austin Parks Foundation is a 1% for the Planet nature nonprofit partner associated with terrestrial ecosystems. Based in Austin, TX, United States of America, it is ...
Bat Conservation International
Bat Conservation International's mission is to conserve the world’s bats and their ecosystems to ensure a healthy planet.
Bee:wild
A science-led civil society movement to save bees and other pollinators
Black Outside, Inc
Black Outside, Inc is a youth-serving 501c3 organization dedicated to connecting Black/African-American youth to the outdoors/nature
Caribbean Reef Guardians
Caribbean Reef Guardians restores Caribbean coral reefs through fieldwork, education programs & regional information sharing collaborations for big impact.
Central Texas Food Bank
The mission of the Central Texas Food Bank is to nourish hungry people and lead the community in the fight against hunger.
Comal Trails Alliance
Creating trails to connect communities and provide opportunities for health, education and enjoyment of the natural beauty of Comal County.
EarthShare Texas
Through collaborative fundraising and partnership building, EarthShare of Texas empowers mission-driven members to pursue positive environmental and health impacts a...
Ecology Action of Texas Inc.
Our mission is to protect, reclaim, and connect communities to neglected or damaged remnants of the urban wilderness. EA accelerates ecosystem recovery through biodi...
EcoRise
EcoRise mobilizes a new generation of leaders to design healthy, just, and thriving communities for all.
Explore Austin
Explore Austin believes nature is critical to physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing and promotes that everyone can benefit from time in nature.
Families in Nature
Families in Nature's vision is to inspire all people to fall in love with nature and foster the next generation of conservationists.
Feeding Texas
A state association in the state of Texas that leads the fight against hunger by addressing the systematic root causes.
Fight For The Forgotten
Mission: Fight For the Forgotten exists to work with the Pygmy People to build better lives by providing dignified housing, clean water, essential services, and live...
Friends Of Enchanted Rock
non-profit 501(c)3 organization, dedicated to partnering with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to preserve and protect Enchanted Rock State Natural Area and to en...
Friends of Government Canyon
A non-profit whose mission is to protect our Natural Area.
Gazelle Foundation
Gazelle Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life for people in Burundi, Africa by providing access to clean water.
Girlstart
Girlstart is a national woman-founded, woman-led organization, offering free, year-round out-of-school STEM programming for girls in grades 4-8.
GivePower Foundation
GivePower is committed to extending the environmental and social benefits of clean, renewable energy around the globe.
Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance
THE GREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE (GEAA) IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO PROMOTE EFFECTIVE BROAD BASED GRASSROOTS ADVOCACY FOR AQUIFER PROTECTION...
Great Springs Project
Great Springs Project is working to create a greenway of protected lands between Austin and San Antonio over the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone. This green corridor w...
Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited
TROUT UNLIMITED IS A NON-PROFIT, CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO CONSERVE, PROTECT, AND RESTORE NORTH AMERICA'S TROUT AND SALMON FISHERIES AND THEIR WA...
Headwaters at the Comal
Restoration of an asphalt covered utility yard at the headwaters of the most significant artesian spring system in the American Southwest for environmental ed.
HealthCode
HealthCode helps foster a healthier planet, people, and communities by raising awareness, education, and community-focused, goal-based challenges, and programs.
H. E. Butt Foundation
H. E. Butt Foundation
Hill Country Conservancy
HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY PRESERVES VITAL NATURAL RESOURCES THROUGH CONSERVATION, COMMUNITY COLLABORATION, AND ENGAGEMENT TO SUSTAIN OUR REGION NOW AND FOREVER.
IssueVoter
How it works: IssueVoter makes information accessible and actionable with customized alerts *before* Congress votes, and translates bills into layman’s terms wit...
Keep Austin Fed
Keep Austin Fed is a food rescue organization in Austin, TX, keeping perfectly good food out of the landfill where it generates harmful methane gases.
Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University
The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment inspires research, innovation, and leadership that ensures clean, abundant water for the environment.
Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation
Our mission: inspiring bat conservation worldwide.
Monarch Sanctuary Project
A 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the monarch butterfly migration.
Naturally Network
National network supporting conscious CPG brands through education and programs that advance sustainable and responsible business practices.
Partners for Education, Agriculture and Sustainability (PEAS)
PEAS is an Austin-based nonprofit cultivating joyful, hands-on connections to food and the natural world through outdoor learning and edible education programs.
Plastic Reduction Project
Plastic Reduction Project seeks to reduce single-use foodware waste through education, assistance in reuse implementation, and by quantifying economic drivers.
Primarily Primates, Inc.
Primarily Primates, Inc. (PPI) is a not-for-profit animal sanctuary in Bexar County, Texas, providing permanent, lifetime care and housing for rescued animals,
Project Primate, Inc
Project Primate, Inc supports the Chimpanzee Conservation Center (Centre de Conservation pour Chimpanzés) in combating the illegal pet trade by caring for orphaned ...
Rainforest Partnership
Rainforest Partnership is an impact- driven international organization that uses the power of community and collaboration to protect tropical rainforests.
Red Line Parkway Initiative
Supporting the 36-mile trail and linear park connecting from Downtown Austin to Cedar Park to Leander
Re:wild
Re:wild protects and restores the wild to build a thriving Earth where all life flourishes.
Re:wild Your Campus
Join the movement to re:wild college campuses as students across the nation address our world’s rising biodiversity and climate crises. Re:wild Your Campus envision...
San Antonio Food Bank
A nonprofit working on reducing hunger in South Texas. The program supported through 1% for the Planet is our 75 acre urban organic demonstration farm.
San Marcos River Foundation (SMRF)
To create a clean and flowing San Marcos River accessible for current and future generations, supported by a healthy watershed and an engaged community dedicated to...
Save Texas Streams
Save Texas Streams works to protect Central Texas's water quality and quantity through public education, community outreach, and collaborative advocacy.
SEED Coalition
IOWA AND MINNESOTA CAMPUS COMPACT STRENGTHENS THE CAPACITY OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES TO FULFILL THE PUBLIC PURPOSES OF HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH ITS NETWORK OF 56 ...
Solar Austin
Solar Austin is accelerating the transition to local clean energy and to mitigate climate change and build a healthy, thriving community.
Solar San Antonio
Solar San Antonio is a cutting edge non-profit 501(c)(3) organization making solar energy a major contributor to the creation of the new energy economy. Solar San A...
Texan By Nature
Texan By Nature is a 1% for the Planet nature nonprofit partner associated with terrestrial ecosystems. Based in Austin, TX, United States of America, it is included...
Texas Children in Nature Network
We are a network of over 600 partners in Texas working to engage more children in families in the outdoors.
Texas Land Conservancy
Protecting the land, water, and wildlife of Texas since 1982
The Trail Conservancy
To protect, enhance and connect the Ann and Roy Butler Trail at Lady Bird Lake for the benefit of all.
The University of Texas at Austin Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
TreeFolks
Our mission is to empower Central Texans to build stronger communities through planting and caring for trees.