SFOS Grants and Donations Timeline

1999

$32,000: SFOS secured funds from Stanley Smith Horticulture Trust to support $32,000 grant to Douglas W. James to study use of Oryzalin vs Colchicine for orchid chromosome doubling.

2003

$400: Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens - towards podium for auditorium
$1,500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - Strybing Arboretum Society - towards orchid books and periodicals
$1,000: UC Berkeley BG Orchid Collection Fund
$3,867: SF Conservatory of Flowers (Campaign to restore damaged building)
$5,000: scholarship and supplementary funds to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Horticulture & Crop Science Department
$500: Orchid Digest - Jack A. Fowlie Color Print Fund on behalf of Anna Chai in lieu of fee from opportunity tables

2004

2005

$7,500: scholarship to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Horticulture student
$3,500: UC Berkeley BG Orchid, Fern & Carnivorous Plant Exhibits
$1,500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
$1,500: SF Conservatory of Flowers - orchid fund - "Orchids: The Many Faces of Beauty" on exhbit 11/3/2005 - 02/26/2006
$150: SF Conservatory of Flowers (SF Parks Trust)

2006

$7,500: scholarship to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Horticulture student Ryan Guillou - help manage orchid production greenhouse & retail sales display area and learn about the propagation, production, display and marketing of orchids under faculty mentor David Hannings
$1,000: SF Conservatory of Flowers books to Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society

2007

$7,500: Amy Lomeli (Cal Poly Scholarship and recognition by Mark Leno)
$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

2009

$2,000: Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA)
$1,400: SF Conservatory of Flowers
$10,000: Cal Poly SLO Horticulture program / scholarships
$150: AOS Pacific Central Judging Center
$400: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society

2010

2011

$500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden

2012

$3,000: OCA (Orchid Conservation Alliance)
$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

2013

$1,500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
$1,000: in kind orchid plants donated to SF Conservatory of Flowers from POE 2013

2014

$3,000: OCA (Orchid Conservation Alliance)
$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

2015

$2,000: SF Conservatory of Flowers
$3,017: UCBG Berkeley
$1,500: Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society

2016

$3000+: Kickstarter - Orchid book fund - SFOS covered the costs of editing, layout, printing and shipping 1000 copies of Bay Area Guide to Orchids and their culture by Mary Gerritsen

2017

2018

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: in kind orchid plants donated to SF Conservatory of Flowers from OITP 2019
$1500: Jason Miller - Genetic diversity of Cypripedium arietinum within Wisconsin

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: OCA (Orchid Conservation Alliance)
$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

2021

$1,000: OCA (Orchid Conservation Alliance)
$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)

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: in kind plant donation to SF Conservatory of Flowers at OITP 2022

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: OCA (Orchid Conservation Alliance)
$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

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: in kind 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: OCA (Orchid Conservation Alliance)