Nature & Gardens
Promoting the importance of botanical gardens, parks, and natural areas in New York City and beyond.
Grantees
73
Grants
545
Awarded
$85.5M
(Top Left) Prospect Park Alliance Lakeside; (Bottom Left) American Bird Conservancy Golden Winged Warbler Singing - Photo by Larry Master; (Center) New York Botanical Garden Native Plant Garden - Photo by Elena Garofalo
New York Botanical Garden Native Plant Garden - Photo by Elena Garofalo
Foundation Initiatives
Nature & Gardens
The Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve is the first national park on the island of Eleuthera and is managed in partnership with the Bahamas National Trust.
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Nature & Gardens
The pioneering Archives Initiative safeguards and ensures access, by scholars and the public, to vital historical information at a wide range of cultural institutions, primarily in New York City.
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Botanic Gardens Conservation International
The Foundation supports Conserving Native Plant Diversity: Strengthening the Caribbean and Central American Botanic Gardens Network, a project managed by BGCI, the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve, and Naples Botanical Garden.
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
The Foundation supports BGI's effort to help obtain botanical garden status for its Naval Cemetery Landscape, as well as the management of this natural area.
Maine Coast Heritage Trust
The Foundation supports land conservation efforts and services on Mount Desert Island including an internship program.
American Bird Conservancy
The Foundation is a longtime supporter of the Glass Collisions and Bird-Smart Wind Energy Programs, which significantly reduce bird collisions with glass and wind turbines nationwide.
NYC Bird Alliance
The Foundation’s ongoing support has enabled and bolstered the Project Safe Flight and Greenspace as Habitat programs, helping achieve significant research and public awareness advances and driving change to prevent bird-building collisions.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
The Foundation supported the Lab's science and technology team's ability to harness the power of big data to understand the threats birds and their habitats face, and to inform conservation and environmental decision making in real places, in real time via BirdCast and eBird.
Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
The Foundation supported the Smithsonian’s National Zoo Bird House, with a specific focus on educating the public on bird friendly glass.