About Us
East Foundation promotes the advancement of land stewardship through ranching, science, and education. We manage over 218,000 acres of native South Texas rangeland, operated as six separate ranches in Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr, and Willacy counties. Our land is a working laboratory where scientists and managers work together to address issues important to wildlife management, rangeland health, and ranch productivity. We ensure that ranching and wildlife management work together to conserve healthy rangelands.
East Foundation was created through the generous gift of the East family in 2007. To honor their legacy, we uphold their vision and values that were established more than a century ago. In pursuit of our mission, we use our unique resources to build future leaders through programs that introduce students to private land stewardship. We invest in future professionals through internships, graduate fellowships, and close engagements with university programs.
We care for our land and are always exploring more efficient ways to get things done and are continuously guided by our values to conserve the land and resources. We do what’s right for the land and the life that depends on it.
News & Events
The East Foundation is hiring! East Foundation’s first Director of Communications will provide leadership and build the capacity of teams supporting the Foundation’s communication, branding, and marketing efforts. The new Director will have the entrepreneurial attitude and vision to design and launch East’s first organization-wide communications strategy, and its ability to tell the land stewardship story, both through traditional means and with a full appreciation for 21st century technology and its reach to current and future audiences. Click above for more information.
Supporting Conservation
We do what’s right for the land and the life that depends on it.
Applied Research
Our land is a working laboratory where scientists and managers work together to address issues important to wildlife management, rangeland health, and ranch productivity.
Responsible Land Management
We ensure that ranching and wildlife management work together to conserve healthy rangelands.
Impacting the Future
We build future leaders through programs that introduce students to private land stewardship.
Maintaining Our Legacy
We uphold the East family’s vision and values that were established more than a century ago.
Horses to Ride, Cattle to Cut: The San Antonio Viejo Ranch of Texas
Wyman Meinzer and Henry Chappell
We promote the advancement of land stewardship through ranching, science, and education.
About Us
East Foundation promotes the advancement of land stewardship through ranching, science, and education. We manage over 218,000 acres of native South Texas rangeland, operated as six separate ranches in Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr, and Willacy counties. Our land is a working laboratory where scientists and managers work together to address issues important to wildlife management, rangeland health, and ranch productivity. We ensure that ranching and wildlife management work together to conserve healthy rangelands.
East Foundation was created through the generous gift of the East family in 2007. To honor their legacy, we uphold their vision and values that were established more than a century ago. In pursuit of our mission, we use our unique resources to build future leaders through programs that introduce students to private land stewardship. We invest in future professionals through internships, graduate fellowships, and close engagements with university programs.
We care for our land and are always exploring more efficient ways to get things done and are continuously guided by our values to conserve the land and resources. We do what’s right for the land and the life that depends on it.
News & Events
The East Foundation is hiring! East Foundation’s first Director of Communications will provide leadership and build the capacity of teams supporting the Foundation’s communication, branding, and marketing efforts. The new Director will have the entrepreneurial attitude and vision to design and launch East’s first organization-wide communications strategy, and its ability to tell the land stewardship story, both through traditional means and with a full appreciation for 21st century technology and its reach to current and future audiences. Click above for more information.
