Annual fundraiser

CrawFest

Crawfish for a cause. One day a year, the whole community gathers for live music, a live auction, and thousands of pounds of crawfish, with every dollar going to the families we serve.

01 — What it is

A day the whole community shows up.

CrawFest 2025$760,000 raised

CrawFest is the Cotton Foundation’s annual fundraiser and the biggest day on our calendar: a crawfish boil turned community festival, with proceeds benefiting Taylor’s Place.

It starts with the crawfish: thousands of pounds of it. A live band takes the stage, a live auction puts one-of-a-kind items in front of a crowd that comes ready to give, and friends, families, coworkers, and sponsors fill the tents. By the end of the night the community has funded another piece of the place families will call theirs for a few days.

Sponsors carry the day. Sponsorship packages put a company or family name in front of the whole crowd and go directly toward Taylor’s Place: the house, the pond, and the music hall, chapel, fishing pier, and fire pit of Phase 2. To sponsor or bring a group to the next CrawFest, get in touch and we’ll walk you through the packages.

Scenes from CrawFest

Photographs from CrawFest

Together, we make it happen

Every plate of crawfish is a few days a family gets to keep.

Give today, sponsor CrawFest, or bring a table of friends.