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Spotlight recipient Nutrition & Services for Seniors, represented by Janci Kimball, with Beaumont Market President Bill Darling.
2026 Harvest of Giving honors 78 local non-profits and charitable partners driving positive change in the community
BEAUMONT - October 15, 2026 – Hancock Whitney awarded more than $2 million in charitable grants to 78 organizations across Southeast Texas at the annual Harvest of Giving awards ceremony. Grant recipients and charitable partners were honored at the 2026 Harvest of Giving ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 14 from 4 to 6 p.m. at 434 Fannin St. in Beaumont.
Presented on behalf of the Helen G. Bell Charitable Trust, H.E. Kate Dishman Charitable Foundation Trust, Eva Dujay Foundation – Mary Harold Medical Fund, H.H. & Edna Houseman Charitable Trust, Roy & M. Permenter Charitable Foundation, and B.A. & Elinor Steinhagen Benevolent Trust, the grants support organizations addressing five key areas including the Arts, Community Services, Education, Health Care and Services for the Disadvantaged.
“As we head into the holiday season, we are reminded of the incredible impact of investing in our community,” said Bill Darling, Beaumont market president at Hancock Whitney. “Harvest of Giving celebrates the nonprofits and charitable partners whose dedication is making a lasting impact in the lives of local communities. Hancock Whitney is proud to support their efforts towards a stronger and more vibrant Southeast Texas.”
Hancock Whitney Trust and Asset Management serves as trustee for the charitable foundations, managing assets and overseeing funding. Each grant season, nonprofits apply for funding through the unified grant application and are considered based on their proposed use of funds. This year, the combined Foundations and the Houseman Foundations received 95 applications from organizations seeking funding.
For 45 years, Hancock Whitney Trust and Asset Management has helped facilitate charitable giving throughout Southeast Texas, overseeing $46.5 million in charitable assets and 2,300 grants benefiting local organizations and community projects.
Nutrition and Services for Seniors was also honored with the Hancock Whitney Community Spotlight Award.
“Nutrition and Services for Seniors is honored to be a grant recipient on top of the Community Spotlight Award,” said Janci Kimball, executive director at Nutrition & Services for Seniors. “This funding allows us to continue providing essential services to the seniors in our community who need them most. We are grateful to Hancock Whitney and their partners for their generosity and dedication to giving back.”
Grant Recipients
Grant recipients, by category, include:
Arts
- Art Museum of Southeast Texas
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation
- Barefoot On The Bayou Film Group
- Beaumont Children’s Museum
- Beaumont Heritage Society
- Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Restoration
- Downtown Beaumont Cultural Arts District
- Edison Museum
- KVLU
- Orange Community Players
- Port Arthur Historical Society
- Southeast Texas Arts Council
- Symphony of Southeast Texas
- Texas Energy Museum
Community Services
- American National Red Cross Texas Gulf Coast Region
- Beaumont Botanical Gardens
- Beaumont Pets Alive
- Big Thicket Association
- Boy Scouts of America, Three Rivers Council
- Conn Park Complex
- Friends of Village Creek State Park
- Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council
- Humane Society of Southeast Texas
- Magnolia Garden Club
- Orange County Special Angels Rodeo
- SETX Nonprofit Development Center
- Texas Master Naturalist Association
- Vidor Rotary Club
- YMCA of SETX
Education
- Ability Central Works Corporation
- Friends of Kountze Public Library
- Junior Achievement of the Golden Triangle
Health
- American Heart Association
- Anayat House
- Baptist Hospitals of SETX Foundation
- Beaumont Family Shelter
- CHRISTUS Health Foundation of SETX
- Community Retirement Home
- Crisis Center of Southeast Texas
- Garlyn Place
- H.O.W. Center
- Julie Rogers “Gift of Life” Program
- Legacy Community Health
- Life Resource
- Recovery Council of Southeast Texas
- Samaritan Counseling Center of SETX
- Shorkey Education & Rehabilitation Center
- Special Olympics Texas
- Stable – Spirit
- TDA Smiles Foundation
- The Rose
- Triangle Aids Network
- UT Health Sciences Center
- Your Medical Home Community Care Clinic
Social Welfare
- Boys’ Haven of America
- Buckner Children and Family Services
- CASA of the Sabine Neches Region
- CASE of SETX
- Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas
- Community Care-Prayer Outreach
- Everlasting Changes
- Fishers of Men Ministries
- Girls Haven
- Habitat for Humanity Inc.
- IEA – Inspire, Encourage, Achieve
- Jefferson County Revision
- Loula Foundation
- Nutrition & Services for Seniors
- Orange Christian Services
- Orange Community Action Association
- Port Cities Rescue Mission Ministries
- Some Other Place
- Southeast Texas Family Resource Center
- Southeast Texas Food Bank
- United Board of Mission
- United Christian Care Center of Vidor
- United Way of Beaumont & N. Jefferson Co.
- Vidor Methodist Church
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