California · Public charity
Center for Plant Conservation Inc
Safeguard and conserve imperiled native plants by advancing science-based practices, connecting and empowering plant conservationists, and inspiring people to protect biodiversity for future generations.
- $645k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $534k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $73,486
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Center for Plant Conservation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $534k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $359k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $305k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $445k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $184k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $95k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $180k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $180k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $164,950 | 9 | 0% |
| Bok Tower Gardens Inc | $163,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Transition Zone Horticultural Inst | $160,300 | 9 | 4% |
| Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden | $154,253 | 7 | 1% |
| Portland State University Foundation | $150,175 | 9 | 0% |
| Zoological Society of San Diego | $141,335 | 6 | 0% |
| Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc | $136,760 | 9 | 0% |
| North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation | $130,625 | 9 | 1% |
| The Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc | $118,577 | 6 | 0% |
| Native Plant Trust Inc | $104,900 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($214k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Center for Plant Conservation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Nature Conservancy · Ibm International Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Center for Plant Conservation Inc
- How much does Center for Plant Conservation Inc give?
- Center for Plant Conservation Inc reported 27 itemized grants totaling $533,862, out of $644,775 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Center for Plant Conservation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (69%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Education (8%).
- Who are Center for Plant Conservation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees ($165k), Bok Tower Gardens Inc ($163k), Transition Zone Horticultural Inst ($160k).
- Does Center for Plant Conservation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Plant Conservation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Nature Conservancy, Ibm International Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Center for Plant Conservation Inc based?
- Center for Plant Conservation Inc is based in CA.
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