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: 

New Barn

This is going to be a huge project and a chance for people to come together.  Our old barn needs to be replaced, and we hope to have lots of volunteers to put up the new one.  DATES TBD, please check back.  Right now we are looking for donations to develop the plans and purchase the materials.

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.

Other

We also need:

• Camping equipment (tents, sleeping bags)
• Horse equipment (feed, grooming tools)
• Canoeing and kayaking equipment (paddles, life vests, boats)
• Archery equipment (bows, arrows, targets)
• Gardening tools (shovels, hoes, rakes, hoses, wheelbarrow, tomato cages, etc.)
• Office supplies (digital camera, paper, etc)
• Cash for rebuilding our barn and for supplies used at our camps.

Thank you to all the families and individuals who have been coming out to lead a hand feeding and caring for the horses over these winter months.  Volunteering to help is open to anyone who has taken our Horsemanship Day Camp, or any of the Spring and Summer Horse Camps.  After horse work is done, we let you ride and enjoy the horses.  The Horsemanship Day Camps are scheduled once a month, or arrange a special day for your Homeschool or Scout Group. 

This is the Spurlin / Kocher Family who not only have donated their time but have also donated senior feed, and new grooming tools.  Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you.

Claudia and Glen Heltne volunteer at least once a month doing maintenance projects here at the camp.  Trimming trails, clearing cedar saplings, helping with the chickens and in the organic vegetable garden.  Their helping hands and happy hearts have truly been a blessing but this winter they went beyond the call of duty when they came to reorganize and clean out the Longhouse, our camps storage building.  Wow it not only looks great but we now can locate what we need with ease.  Thank you for all that you have done for the camp.

Scouts, 4Hers, Homeschool Groups, or families who want to do service out at Camp Tonkawa would glady be accomodated.

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.

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!