Donating to Camp Tonkawa
Camp Tonkawa is a 501c3 non profit organization and we welcome donations to help with our operation costs and keeping the camp running. We can provide a tax deductable receipt at request. Here are some ways you can help us out:
Riding Helmets
For the safety of our horseback riders, we provide various size helmets for them to wear. We would like to add more to our collection, so that we can have on hand more of each size, to better fit each rider. If your child or someone you know, grows out of their helmet we would love for them to donate it to our program. Also for the eBayers, please keep an eye out for us for great deals. The helmets we currently have two were from children out growing them, and the remainder 8 were purchased on eBay for $50 total! Help us how you can.
Adopt a tree
Camp Director Chipco (means: Tree Hugger) asks for tree donations. Her goal is to raise trees of many varieties to eventually use as teaching tools at the camp. So when we learn about the Catalpa we can someday climb in her branches, put the flowers on our fingertips and watch the caterpillers defoilage it while providing us with fish bait. This is just one example of what we could do with one tree. We love the Post Oaks, Cedar Elm and Juniper Red Cedars that forest the woods at the camp but we ask families, scout troops, school classes, homeschool groups and other groups to ADOPT A TREE of different varieties. We hope you will choose one of the varieties listed below, purchase it, and then plant it at the camp. A plaque will be placed with both yours and it's names at its base. We hope you will help shower it both with water and love during your visits to Camp Tonkawa. Trees planted in the pasture areas will also need protective rings built around them to protect them from being eatten by the horses.
| Common Name | Scientific name | Donated by |
| LOBLOLLY PINE | Pinus taeda | |
| SHORTLEAF PINE | Pinus echinata | |
| LONGLEAF PINE | Pinus paustris | |
| GINKGO | Ginkgo biloba | |
| BLACK WILLOW | Salix nigra | |
| RIVER BIRCH | Betula nigra | |
| BLACKJACK OAK | Quercus marilandica | |
| SHUMARD OAK | Quercus shumardii | |
| CHINKAPIN OAK | Quercus muhlenbergii | |
| BUR OAK | Quercus macrocarpa | |
| LIVE OAK | Quercus virginiana | |
| AMERICAN ELM | Ulmus americana | |
| SOUTHERN MAGNOLIA | Magnolia grandiflora | |
| SASSAFRAS | Sassafras albidum | |
| SWEETGUM | Liquidambar styraciflua | |
| AMERICAN SYCAMORE | Platanus occidentalis | |
| CHINESE TALLOW | Sapium sebiferum | |
| AMERICAN HOLLY | Ilex opaca | |
| CAROLINA BUCKTHORNE | Rhamnus caroliniana | |
| MESQUITE | Prosopis glandulosa | |
| MIMOSA | Albizia julibrissin | |
| EASTERN BLACK WALNUT | Juglans nigra | |
| PECAN | Carya illioensis | |
| BLACK HICKORY | Carya texana | |
| CHINABERRY | Melia azedarach | |
| BOX ELDER | Acer negundo | |
| RED BUCKEYE | Aesculus pavia | |
| WHITE ASH | Fraxinus americana | |
| GREEN ASH | Fraxinus pennsylvanica | |
| SOUTHERN CATALPA | Catalpa bignoniodes |
Fruit trees suitable for our region will also be gladly accepted.
We will be having a TREE PLANTING FESTIVAL on TEXAS ARBOR DAY, the last Friday in April, the 25th, but donations can be made at any time throughout the year!