Donations
The “Donate” link is listed below to support TLSN’s two missions.
All of the board members associated with TLSN do so without compensation.
Join us in giving back to the Longhorn athletic community.
If you prefer to contribute by check, please make your check payable to TLSN and the “TLSN general fund.” Send your check to TLSN -7703 Mesa Drive- Austin, TX. -78731.
Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
The TLSN website and newsletter are free and deliver educational, historical, and insightful Longhorn sports history as told through the eyes of those who created it.
Https://texaslsn.org
TLSN is a 501 (c)(3) Longhorn Sports history educational website with a compassionate component.
Fortunately, most, but not all, former Longhorn student-athletes and support staff personnel have successfully transitioned to the job market with health insurance and loss of income safety nets.
Still, some need help, and TLSN donors have opened their hearts and wallets to extend a helping hand. TLSN has issued gifts or grants between $1000 and $45,000 to 19 former Longhorn student-athletes.
Please be one of those open hearts and donate to TLSN.
LSG – Legacy Support Group
Before TLSN, Billy Dale was directly involved with LSG (Longhorn Support Group), an informal DKR financial support organization. Gifts from the hearts of Darrell Royal football players funded LSG. The organization had no legal funding structure but raised money to assist former qualifying Longhorns.
LSG helped one Longhorn who lost his home in a fire and another who lost his home in a hurricane. In addition, the organization helped one Longhorn recover his for-hire truck repossessed after he incurred a long-term illness, and several Horns defray significant medical expenses not covered by insurance.
Finally, former DKR Longhorn players gifted DKR athletes with temporary financial assistance varying between $8000 and $25,000 per individual.
TLSN – Texas Legacy Support Network
From the informal LSG organization evolved TLSN, INC., which is Exempt From Federal Income Tax Under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501 (C) (3). Donors Can Deduct Contributions To TLSN Under IRC Section 170. In addition, TLSN Is Qualified To Receive Tax-Deductible Bequests, Devices, Transfers, Or Gifts Under Section 2055, 2106, Or 2522.
On April 29th, 2017, TLSN made intercollegiate athletic sports history. TLSN is the first private charitable and tax-exempt to offer temporary financial assistance to qualifying former Longhorn student-athletes, coaches, student managers, trainers, and their immediate families as a last resort. Longhorn athletes who, through no fault of their own, have fallen through societal safety nets.
TLSN (Texas Legacy Support Network), a 501 (c) (3), was formed to assist all former Longhorn student-athletes and support staff.
TLSN has issued grants to:
1) a Longhorn volleyball player whose son had Leukemia;
2) a football player confined to a wheelchair since 1998. (TLSN is still financially helping him when funds are available.)
3) a football player who lost all his teeth during throat cancer radiation treatment. TLSN paid for implants, his monthly car payment, and his house payment while he recovered;
4) a wife of an incarcerated former Longhorn player. Her situation was desperate – eviction notice in hand, car repossessed, no phone, and two children to support. TLSN paid for eight months’ rent, bought clothes for the children, paid her phone bill, and bought groceries. (TLSN is still assisting her when funds are available.)
5) A Longhorn football player who had a heart aneurysm.
6) A Longhorn baseball player who is suffering significant health issues.
7) A baseball player with many health issues
8) A football player who had a stroke and no health insurance.
9) A football player whose house burned down
10) Two football players with CTE
TLSN is a Longhorn Legacy Support Network Building Bridges to the Past, Present, and Future
Our job is not done! Most former Longhorn student-athletes are still unaware of the TLSN mission. Due to legal restraints, the Longhorn Athletic Department cannot share the TLSN mission with its list of over 10,000 former student-athletes and support staff. TLSN continues to try and tell our story, but the process remains slow without email addresses to reach the TLSN qualifying base.
On behalf of Texas Legacy Support Network, Inc. (“TLSN”) and the former Longhorn student-athletes, coaches, trainers, managers, and their immediate families we serve, I wish to express our sincere appreciation for your donation
James G. Kay CFO
Billy Dale – Webmaster, storyteller, and board member of TLSN Inc.
Email: Billydale1@gmail.com – Phone # 972-672-9071
