Donate & SPONSOR

  At Pioneer Farms, your support is more than just dollars and cents—it’s an investment in impactful learning opportunities, exceptional guest experiences and the preservation of Texas’ storied past.

  Since 1975, Pioneer Farms has offered guests engaging and authentic experiences through restored historic areas, youth and adult programs and special events. Your generous gifts fund these experiences for our more than 145,000 visitors each year. 

Our current project:

  • Restore the historic Dodson House, once the home of Freedman Leaders Jack and Mary Jane Dodson, as part of a new history site showcasing the successes of formerly enslaved Texans following emancipation. The house — one of the few extant Freedman farm homes in Texas — was moved from the Manchaca area to save it from demolition. Pleaase consider a donation to help pay the estimated $350,000 cost to restore the one-story house and create this important new history site. Donate at the button on the bottom of this page.

  • Restore the 1876 Dessau Church at Pioneer Farms for use as an exhibit on the importance of faith in 1800s Texas. All but $10,000 has been raised so far through donations. Please consider a donation for this most worthy grassroots preservation initiative to restore this sanctuary that was built by early settlers from Germany, was home to formerly enslaved Freedmen’s worshipers and was where Elvis Presley once sang in the late 1950s. Donate at the button on the bottom of this page.

  Gifts of any size can help a variety of other projects.

  • A gift of $300 ensures school classes can participate in 1800s crafts and activities during their visits.

  • $600 provides 50 bales of hay for our animals that participate in historical programs.

  • A gift of $1,000 will pay for horse-drawn wagons or carriages at an event.

  • $2,500 subsidizes a field trip for a low-income school.

  • A gift of $5,000 pays for the installation of a new exhibit.

  • A gift of $10,000 pays to expand our historical Pioneer School artisans program or help restore an historical building on the Sprinkle Corner town square.

  All donors receive recognition and free admission to our unique activities, events and programs. Sign on as a sponsor and get benefits plus recognition as a True Texas Hero!

  Donor Members get all the benefits of regular membership, your name on our website and in printed materials, your name on the Donors Wall, plus invitations to VIP exhibition parties, private invitation-only history events. Business Sponsors also get iconic public recognition to draw attention and new customers and increase sales from the 50,000+ visitors at Pioneer Farms each year! 

     Tonkawa Scout Level                   Annual contribution of $200-$500

     Prairie Homesteader Level         Annual contribution of $501-$1,000

     Cattle Baron Level                       Annual contribution of $1,001 to $2,500

     Lone Star Hero Level                  Annual contribution of $2,501 to $5,000

     Texas Pioneer Legends                Annual contribution of $5,000 and above

Funding for specific projects is also possible and outlined in our strategic plan


Your gifts are eligible for a tax deduction. Pioneer Farms is operated by volunteers as the Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms Foundation, a tax-exempt, 501(c)3 non-profit Texas corporation.

Donation and sponsorship checks should be mailed to Pioneer Farms, 10621 Pioneer Farms Drive, Austin TX 78754 or donate below. For more details, or for a tour of the museum or project site, contact us at Info@PioneerFarms.org.

  Join our generous Donor Members and Business Sponsors listed below:

Mr. & Mrs. Joe W. Bratcher Jr. Foundation

Summerlee Foundation       Humanities Texas

National Endowment for the Humanities

CWS Apartment Homes LLC  Franklin Investments

Family of Julian Read      Dell Giving Program   Big Red 

Benevity Causes  Wheeler Holdings Cornucopia   7Up Keurig Dr Pepper   

New Belgium Brewing  Solar Wind Voodoo Ranger IPA    Canada Dry Ginger Ale  

Garrison Brothers Distillery Austin Chronicle Precision Camera & Video

Vickie Roan/The Menagerie     VisionTeam Consulting Treaty Oak Distilling    

Double Horse Trading Co. Elizabeth Vieau Abrahams    April Aguren    Jodi Bade 

Johnnie Baldwin    Eugenie Baranoff Joseph Barletta Caroline Barnes   James Barnes  

Richard & Caroline Beaird   Michael & Heather Becker  Ellen & Joe Bell   John Blackman 

Cynthia Bland-Verhayden    Kirsten Bloomer    Carol Blosser Leslie Brice  Marvin Buck

Catherine Carby    Chris Ching    Tommy Cowan    Kathy Cronkite 

Diana Culberson   Andrew Culler    Dirk D    Mary DeBois  Jonathan & Donna Durbin

   Mike Dwyer    John Ellis   Amanda Fachrell    Cheryl Ferguson   Patrick Flanagan  

Kimberlee Flores    Beverly Gavenda    Barbara Gerbig  Charmaine Gernale    Ruth Hansen 

Michael Harris   S. E. Hausmann    Susan Hausmann  Tom Hamm   Dirk Heinen 

Donald Heick    Julianna & Dan Hennig    Mary Herlin  Dealey Herndon    Randall Hill

Irene Hinofotis   M. D. Hunter    Jay Jackson Mary Jackson Sarah Jacobs  Stephanie Jourdan 

Christopher Jurgens   James Kerr Diane Kester  Dunson King Leo Lansford  Heather Lecheler 

Kristie Liems  Penny Leisch Victoria Long  Anna Macdonald    Evangelina Mangino  Yazmin Mani

Jason Mann  Jim Markey  Nell Martin Patricia Marston   Emma Lea Mayton   Kathy McFarland 

Martha McGlothlin Christy Medley  Virginia Montgomery   Natalie Morgan 

Rosemary M. Morrow  Lori Mosley   Coral Nash   Lori Navjar   Maria Nekam    Karey Oddo  

Shannon Oelrich   Janette Todd Parker  Michelle Parris   Doug Peeler Lorraine Person  Ari Pettigrew 

Angela Philley  Karen Pope  James Pitt  Kristina Read   Sara Reeves   Martha L. Renfroe   Janet Rice 

James Rice   Kathy T. Rider  Barbara Roberts  Ruben Sands Sara Saltmarsh Vasken Sayre  

Jim Schmidt   Jan Schmidt  Steve Saunders Lynda Shanblum  Erin Shonard   Kevin Sparenberg  

Kevin Sponseller  Erik Stanley/Trail Roots   Cheryl Starcher   Michael Steele  Amy Stermer

Karen & William Stone Zie Stone  Michael Strutt   Margie McAllister Stekoll 

Lindsay Sugerman   Erin Taylor  Erin, Josh & Will Taylor Margaret Taylor   Anna Tiller

  Bob Tilson   Eduardo Tobias   JJ Tobin Claudia Thiele   DeSha Tolar-Thomas  Michele Tran

Debbie Tye   Cynthia Verbeden   Mary Walker   Bob Ward  Mike & Sally Ward   Stephen R. Ward 

Philip Waters CeCe White Leon Whitney  Casey Whitmer  Catherine Wilson James Wilson 

Mary Wilson Sarah Wilson  Thomas White T. K. White  Tom & Susan Wyke