Scholarship Program

We appreciate your membership, participation, and support of the Texas Goat Breeders Association. We have successfully distributed over $358,200 to wether exhibitors at the State Fair of Texas, Fort Worth, San Angelo, San Antonio, Houston, and Rodeo Austin Stock Shows since 2023. By 2026, we have grown to 215+ members and sold around 6,000 tags. We are a volunteer-based organization, with one part-time paid employee at this point, and feel we have made tremendous growth and accomplished a lot of our goals.

In 2025, the Texas Goat Breeders Association board met and decided to start the TGBA Doe Scholarship program. Does are an important aspect of Texas Goat Breeder Association Member’s operations and we were looking for ways to promote and enhance the Doe Shows in Texas. Texas Goat Breeders formed a committee to promote and collect funds to give scholarships based on a point system from the 3 Shows that had wether does shows at the time, (San Angelo, San Antonio, Rodeo Austin). In lieu of $100 payment in the ring, a point system was created, and exhibitors with the most combined points at the end of the year receive scholarships. In 2026, the State Fair of Texas was added, and in 2027, TGBA will also collect points at the Grandstand Hill District Doe Show as well.

These scholarships are funded by a combination of tag sales, selling semen jumps, and donations by TGBA members in online sales. Each year TGBA allocates $21,250 worth of scholarships that exhibitors can collect each year, capped at $15,000 per exhibitor, the exhibitor is eligible to receive their scholarship upon graduation of high school and the scholarship is distributed directly to their higher education of choice. Since the start in 2025, nine seniors have been eligible to receive $13,000 in scholarships.

We appreciate your support of the Texas Goat Breeders Association and are excited about the future of our youth. For donations please contact texasgoatbreeders@gmail.com to discuss options.