Thank you for visiting The Hill Country Community Foundation Web site. To see a list of all Officers and Directors, click the link above. Click the Can You Help link to the left to donate to HCCF. We are a Tax Exempt 501 (C) (3), Non-Profit Charitable Community Foundation, in Burnet County, Texas.

We are the Hill Country Community Foundation, a Tax Exempt, 501 (C) (3), Non-Profit Charitable Community Foundation, in Burnet County, Texas. We were born July 21, 1982 in Burnet, fathered by the Rotary Club of Burnet Texas. Beverly Sheffield, the Executive Director of the Austin Community Foundation talked to the Rotary Club of Burnet about the ACF and encouraged the Rotary Club to organize a "Fund" to serve Burnet County in cooperation with the ACF.

During John W. Hoover's 1981-1982 year as president, he adopted as his project, the organization of a "Fund". The name Hill Country Community Fund was chosen by a secret ballot of the Rotary Club. Mr. Hoover appointed a committee of Billy J. Pratt and Alvin Nored to meet with Beverly Sheffield. The committee subsequently met with Dick Donoghue about legal aspects of starting the "Fund" and, based on the by laws of the ACF, drafted and ultimately adopted by laws of the HCC Fund. The original officers and directors committed to do business as the HCC Fund under the auspices of the ACF, but later, on July 21, 1982, were granted a charter by the State of Texas for the Hill Country Community Foundation and became a separate foundation. The foundation received its first gift in 1982 when the First State Bank of Burnet gave a tract of land to the Fund.

The first grants were made to graduating seniors in the spring of 1983 and four seniors, Terri Lynn Ashabranner, Patrick Dean Shell, Rex Schnelle, and Kim Ramirez received small scholarships. The number of scholarships have increased every year since and in the spring of 2008, 135 scholarships were given with an average of $2,580 per scholarship. Scholarships ranged from $1,080 minimum to $4,600 maximum. The total of all scholarships given by the HCCF was $339,000. 100% of all applicants that applied for a scholarship received one based on the applicants SAT/ACT score and class rank. The First State Bank of Burnet through Leon Stone, Chairman of the Board, Cary Johnson, President, and its other directors have generously provided accounting, financial and clerical help.

In 2008, the HCCF built a 5,000 square foot building in Burnet for the use of civic organizations and especially for the use of the Rotary Club of Burnet.