San Antonio, TX — November 26, 2025 — The San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition (SAFCC) is proud to announce that it has been awarded a $6,000 grant from The Summerlee Foundation in collaboration with the United Spay Alliance and Community Cats Podcast. The Summerlee Sustainable Solutions Grant Program offers more than just funding, it provides a pathway to long-term impact through mentorship, strategic planning, and certification in Community Cat Program Management through University of the Pacific, Benerd College. SAFCC volunteer, Kellie Grengs, successfully completed the 8-week certification course.
This grant will directly target zip code 78245, the area with the highest recorded number of cats in Bexar County in 2024, according to SAFCC Helpline data. Each Helpline call is logged by our volunteers and compiled into reports that track zip code, number of unfixed cats and kittens, and caller information. Despite the City of San Antonio launching a limited free spay/neuter initiative within city districts in 2024, residents living just outside the city limits—within Bexar County—have never had access to free services. We have identified a neighborhood within the zip code, Adams Hill, which will be the starting point and radiate out from that area.
This pilot project focuses on community cats, the population most in need and most often overlooked. To sustain long-term impact, we will also conduct community outreach by way of our TNR classes at HOAs within the target area and awareness campaigns promoting ongoing discounted spay/neuter opportunities—advancing our mission to create lasting, humane population control in 78245 and beyond.
For more information about the San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition, please visit www.sanantonioferalcats.org
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About San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition
San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to humanely reducing the feral and stray cat population through rescue and Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) in Bexar County. Since 2005, SAFCC has trained over 14,000 people to do TNR, has rescued and found homes for almost 10,000 cats and kittens, and has subsidized the spay/neuter of over 52,000 cats! Our programs and services include: Trap-Neuter-Return training, free trap loans, a Helpline for advice & resources, subsidized low cost spay/ neuter for the public, a home-based Foster / Adoption Program, a Trapper Team to help elderly and disabled, a spay/neuter clinic for our Trapper Team and foster cats, a winter shelter program, and a fund to help pay for urgent medical/surgical care. We are a volunteer organization and welcome your help and support. Visit SanAntonioFeralCats.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn to join our team in making a difference in the lives of outdoor cats.
About the Summerlee Foundation
The Summerlee Foundation makes grants for two specific purposes: to alleviate fear, pain and suffering of animals and to promote animal protection and the prevention of cruelty to animals, and to research, promote and document all facets of Texas History. The Summerlee Foundation is on a mission to change the lives of community cats and the organizations that care about them. In collaboration with the United Spay Alliance and the Community Cats Podcast, we are excited to launch the newly reimagined Summerlee Sustainable Solutions grant program. This change aligns with the findings and recommendations of the white paper commissioned by the Foundation, Free-roaming Cat Management: A Funders’ Guide to Better Impact. Along with our new Sustainable Solutions grant program, the Summerlee Foundation will be supporting a pilot project based on the principles and methods outlined in the white paper. The goal of the pilot is to create a model for managing free-roaming cats that achieves meaningful, measurable, sustainable and replicable success on a community-wide level.
Principal Office:
5556 Caruth Haven Lane, Dallas, Texas 75225
Phone: 214-363-9000 Email: info@summerlee.org
Media Contact
Sara Reyes
Communications@sanantonioferalcats.org