CGM APPLICATION
2026 applications are available now. Submission deadline is November 30, 2025. Applicants will be notified by January 2026, with funding available to selected applicants in early 2026.
CAMP APPLICATION
2026 applications are available now. Submission deadline is November 30, 2025. Applicants will be notified by January 2026, with funding available to selected applicants in early 2026.
Our Mission
Bacon Bash Texas exists to turn good times into good deeds. We raise funds and awareness for children living with Type 1 Diabetes and for Texans in need of warmth and hope. Since 2012, we’ve raised over $1,000,000, funded 173 scholarships, and provided hundreds of coats, blankets, and CGM monitors to families across Texas.
How You Can Help
Get Involved
Spread the Word
Sharing our scholarship program helps families learn about life-changing support for kids with Type 1 Diabetes.
Support a Family
Your generosity helps fund CGMs and diabetes camps that give children freedom, confidence, and care.
Join Our Mission
Every gift moves us closer to helping more kids live safer, stronger, and happier with Type 1 Diabetes.
2025 STATS
$1,000,000
Raised Since 2015
600 lbs
Pederson’s Farms Bacon
135
Volunteers
From Backyard Idea to Bacon Bash Texas
In 2012, a handful of friends met at the Horny Toad Bar & Grill in Cranfills Gap to celebrate two of their favorite things: bacon and community. The group realized their love for bacon could do good by helping kids with Type 1 Diabetes and keeping Texans warm through Niki Warms the Cold, founded in memory of Niki Carlson. More than a decade later, that small idea has become Texas’s biggest bacon festival with 30 cook-off teams, live music, cold beer, and over $1 million raised for families across the state.