Funders

Each of our institutions supports this concerted effort to conserve the botanical heritage of California through a variety of funding sources. Support from donors, members, and more can be leveraged to support specific grant-funded projects. Here we acknowledge the outside funding sources (foundations, organizations, and agencies) supporting the partners achieving our project goals. 

Providing very specific support towards our goals, CPC distributes money from the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and Kew Foundation America, for some of our collecting efforts. The state of California granted CaPR $3 million dollars specifically for collecting 1B ranked rare plants in 2019, disbursed by the CDFA. An additional $200,000 per year for three years was disbursed for collection of 2B and 4 rare plants. Since 2015, Kew has granted funds to CPC for  rare species collections through the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership. 

We are grateful to the following organizations for supporting CaPR efforts at our collaborating institutions.
• Bureau of Land Management
• Center for Plant Conservation
• Conrad Schlum Charitable Trust
• Dean Witter Foundation
• Mary A. Crocker Trust
• Massen Greene Foundation
• Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
• Ray Collett Trust

Project Partners

Each of our partners contributes in many different ways. While many send staff into the field to perform the monitoring and collection making that constitutes our primary goals, others are supporting research, data sharing, prioritizing target species, and much more. 

CaPR Institutions
• California Native Plant Society
• Center for Plant Conservation
• Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global
• California Botanic Garden
• Regional Parks Botanic Garden
• Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
• San Diego Botanic Garden
• UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
• UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden
• UC Santa Cruz Arboretum and Botanic Garden
• The Theodore Payne Foundation
• Mojave Desert Land Trust


Supporting Partners
• CDFW Natural Diversity Database
• Consortium of California Herbaria
• National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
​• Jepson Herbarium

Regional Seed Banks
​• California Botanic Garden
​• Rae Selling Berry Botanic Garden
• San Diego Botanic Garden
​• San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
​• Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
​• UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
​​• UC Santa Cruz Arboretum and Botanic Garden