Katy Student Founded Nonprofit Receives Heart of Fulshear Award for Community Service
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KATY MAGAZINE NEWS
September 8, 2026
By Natalie Cook Clark
Two Jordan High School seniors founded a nonprofit that earned the Heart of Fulshear Award last week due to their extraordinary service to the Kat/Fulshear community. Learn more about Clothe to Care.
Two friends, Lucas Weatherwax and Daniel Gimenez are seniors at Katy ISD’s Jordan High School and players on the varsity soccer team as well as a list of other activities.
“Clothe to Care really came from Daniel and me realizing that we each had different experiences that could work together to address a need we were seeing in our community,” explains Lucas. “I had already been running a clothing resale business, so I knew how to source good-quality clothing in bulk for relatively little money. Daniel had been volunteering with Family Hope for several years and had seen firsthand how many families in our area needed clothing and other basic necessities.”
An experience that really stuck with them was when Daniel delivered furniture to families who lost everything in an apartment fire. The experience inspired the students to find a way to help their community.
“We realized that I had the knowledge and resources to source the clothing, while Daniel already had a strong relationship with an organization (Family Hope) that could help us get it directly to families who needed it. From there, we started figuring out how to turn that into something sustainable, which eventually became Clothe to Care.
Clothe to Care was established last year in 2025 and is already making a noticeable impact. According to their Instagram page, they are rooted in Christ and are called to serve others through delivering quality clothes with care, compassion and dignity through seasonal drives.
This student-led organization is a 501c nonprofit and focuses only on local impact. Since their creation, they have distributed more than 1,500 complete outfits to those in need. They have collected over 2,500 pieces of donated clothing and organized six drives with more planned.
“Each outfit is packaged as a coordinated top and bottom matched by size, such as a flannel with a pair of jeans or a dress shirt with a pair of pants,” explains Lucas. “We designed the bags this way so families could receive something that was already put together and ready to wear rather than simply receiving individual pieces of clothing.”
Since both Lucas and Daniel are seniors who plan to go to college after graduation, they have focused a lot this year on ensuring the future of Clothe to Care. Thought they still plan to be involved; they each have younger siblings who have been active. Emma Weatherwax and Joaquin Gimenez both plan to step up into a more active role to guarantee the groups continued success in serving the community.
Their recognition last week by the City of Fulshear shows that they are making a difference and many are taking note of that.
They are grateful for the community’s support in donating clothing to their mission.
“Early on, much of the clothing was sourced using our own resources, so seeing the community begin to contribute clothing directly to the organization has been a really important part of our growth and ability to keep the drives going,” says Lucas.
To learn more about their organization, get involved, donate, or learn about future drives follow or reach them on Instagram.
