As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, CPC relies on private donors, grants and other funding sources to operate. Donations to CPC help add to the endowment for the National Collection of Endangered Plants. Donations of $10,000 fully sponsor a plant in perpetuity so that it can be monitored, collected for seed, and restored in the wild.

The CPC network consists of 33 major botanical institutions across the country that have made a scientific, philosophical and financial commitment to plant conservation. The network has 123 full-time scientists, more than 1,800 volunteers and interns. CPC’s institutions are engaged in more than 260 research and recovery projects and monitor more than 1,090 rare plant sites nationwide. CPC also works with several federal and state agencies to help study imperiled plants on federal lands.

Robbins cinquefoil (Pontentilla robbinsiana), one of the species in the national collection, has been so successfully restored in the wild that it has been removed from the federal Endangered Species List.  CPC participating institutions are restoring numerous plant populations in the wild, and we know that restoration really can succeed.