San Francisco Orchid Society

San Francisco Orchid Society

SFOS Grants & Donations Timeline

Since 2003, the San Francisco Orchid Society has contributed to orchid conservation, education, and community programs around the world. Below is a complete record of our grants and donations.

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2025
  • $2,500: Katharine F.E. Hogan, PhD, Director of Conservation at Lauritzen Gardens (Omaha, NB) to conduct work on conservation collections of Spiranthes cernua (Nodding Ladies' Tresses)
  • $1,500: CCSF Trust / Jean Lee SFOS education & scholarship fund EH&F Program c/o Steven Brown
  • $2,000: plant donation to SF Conservatory of Flowers
  • $500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
  • $1,000: Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA)
2024
  • $1,780: Karma Choden – full funding of "Diversity, ecology and conservation of rare and endangered orchid Cypripedium himalaicum Rolfe in Forest Management Unit, Zonglele, Paro, Bhutan"
  • $1,500: plant donation to SF Conservatory of Flowers at OITP 2024
  • $2,500: Fanuel Kawaka – full funding of "Assessment of the distribution and host-species associations of the vulnerable Leopard orchid (Ansellia africana) in Kenya"
  • $500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
  • $1,000: Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA)
2023
  • $2,500: Fanuel Kawaka – "Developing a Community Conservation Strategy for Tridactyle cruciformis, an Endangered Epiphytic Orchid in Mau Forest Complex, Kenya"
  • $2,000: donation to help relocate the Rudolf Jenny library from Switzerland to Lankester Botanical Gardens in Costa Rica
  • $1,200: Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA)
  • $2,000: CCSF Trust / Jean Lee SFOS education & scholarship fund EH&F Program c/o Steven Brown
  • $500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
2022
  • $5,000: OCA Dracula Reserve Land Purchase 2022 SFOS Match (+21 donations from 19 individuals)
  • $500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
  • $1,000: plant donation to SF Conservatory of Flowers at OITP 2022
2021
  • $1,000: Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA)
  • $500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
  • $3,900: CCSF Jean Lee SFOS education & scholarship fund – Steven Brown (Director and Chair of the CCSF Environmental Horticulture and Floristry (EH&F) Department) (including contributions from Pleurothallid Alliance Group, Sherry Bridygham, Carol Zoltowski, Ron Parsons, John Leathers & Bob Hamilton, Mary Gerritsen, Kay Klumb, and Terry & Margaret Boomer)
2020
  • $2,500: Jis Sebastian – conservation research grant – Reproductive ecology of critically endangered terrestrial orchid, Paphiopedilum druryi in the Agasthyamalai hills, southern Western Ghats, India
  • $1,000: CCSF Horticulture program
  • $1,000: Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA)
  • $500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
  • $500: SF Conservatory of Flowers
  • $200: UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley – Lew Feldman in lieu of SFOS March 2020 speaker fee
2019
  • $500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
  • $1,000: CCSF Horticulture program student scholarships ($500 each to Nikki Davidson & Yanqiao Li)
  • $1,000: orchid plants donated to SF Conservatory of Flowers from OITP 2019
  • $1,500: Jason Miller – Genetic diversity of Cypripedium arietinum within Wisconsin
2018
  • $150: SF Conservatory of Flowers
2017
  • $650: Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA)
2016
  • $3,000+: Kickstarter – Orchid book fund – SFOS covered the costs of editing, layout, printing and shipping 1,000 copies of Bay Area Guide to Orchids and their culture by Mary Gerritsen
2015
  • $2,000: SF Conservatory of Flowers
  • $3,017: UCBG Berkeley
  • $1,500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
2014
  • $3,000: Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA)
  • $2,450: Mr. Pradhan from Nepal – "Effective education and outreach program for ecology and conservation of threatened orchids in Godavari-Phulchowki mountain forest, Kathmandu Nepal"
  • $2,290: UCBG Berkeley
  • $2,290: SF Conservatory of Flowers
2013
  • $1,500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
  • $1,000: orchid plants donated to SF Conservatory of Flowers from POE 2013
2012
  • $3,000: Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA)
  • $250: International Phalaenopsis Alliance by Maynard Michel in lieu of speaker fee
  • $1,500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
2011
  • $500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden
2010
  • $500: Blaine Marchant's Goodyeara research – U Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA
  • $5,000: Cal Poly SLO Horticulture program / scholarships
  • $100: AOS Pacific Central Judging Center
2009
  • $2,000: Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA)
  • $1,400: SF Conservatory of Flowers
  • $10,000: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Horticulture program / scholarships
  • $150: AOS Pacific Central Judging Center
  • $400: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
2003
  • $1,000: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture – San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
  • $1,000: SF Conservatory of Flowers
  • $500: Pacific Central Judging Center AOS

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