ABOUT US

  founded in the 1950’s by Harry Tennison, Charlie Stephens, Paul Leonard, Jr., and Mickey Schmid, the Sportsmens Club of Fort Worth is a long-standing, all volunteer, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that devotes its resources to outdoor and wildlife charitable and educational activities with an emphasis on serving area youth and youth organizations.  The purpose of the Club is to (a) encourage conservation of wildlife and good sportsmanship and safety in hunting, fishing and related activities, and (b) encourage and develop in youth an appreciation and enjoyment of wildlife and the outdoors, including supporting youth involvement in hunting, fishing, wildlife conservation and related activities.  The following is a partial list of programs and organizations that are beneficiaries of recent and past club contributions:

• > The Texas Wild Exhibit at the Fort Worth Zoo (youth education scholarships) 

• > Adopt a Fisherman program held annually at Possum Kingdom Lake

• > Texas Wildlife Association

• > Big Brothers and Big Sisters Annual Sporting Clay Shoot.

• > Wild Turkey Federation, Quail Unlimited, Ducks Unlimited, Texas Wildlife Association      (lifetime hunting licenses for youth 17 years of age and under) 

• > Outdoors For Kids program

• > Texas Junior Anglers (multiple youth fishing events)

• > Kid Fish (multiple youth fishing events)

• > Texas Parks & Wildlife.

• > Whiz Bang program at the annual Texas Wildlife Expo at Austin sponsored by the        
      Texas Parks & Wildlife.

• > Texas Game Warden's Association

• > Camp Carter archery and shooting range supplies

• > Lena Pope Home; funding to cover costs of camping trips

• > Camp Fire Girls' Camp El Tesoro (sponsorship of campers and archery range supplies)

• > Cook Children's Medical Center/Camp Sanguinity ( campers and fishing supplies)

• > Texas Pythian Home, Inc. (camping and fishing supplies)

• > Happy Hill Farm (camping and fishing supplies)

        Currently, the Club’s primary fund raising activity is our annual “Game Dinner” (over 1000 people attended the Club’s 2006 dinner), with an emphasis on “father/child” attendance, consistent with the youth educational goals of the Club.  At the dinner, numerous donated hunting, fishing and other outdoor-related trips, together with hunting, fishing and outdoor equipment, are raffled off or sold by both silent and live auction.  Attendees at the Club's dinner typically include Club “members,” their children and guests, area game wardens, and some of the commercial sponsors and donors of the hunting, fishing and outdoor trips to be auctioned at the dinner.  The Club has historically enjoyed considerable success with its dinner and fund-raising activities, which the Club attributes to the commitment of its members, volunteers and donors to the goals of the Club and their continuing generosity and support.