California Floristic Province
The California Floristic Province grantmaking, primarily in Northern California, focuses on the protection of salmon, land, wildlife corridors as well as the restoration of rivers. Within these focus areas, we are looking for groups or projects in which we can leverage our donation into one with a many fold impact.
2025 Grantees
California Trout
California Water Impact Network
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center
EPIC
Institute for Fisheries Resources
Norishn – Beeodiversity
Pacific Forest Trust
Sanctuary Forest Inc.
Save California Salmon
Smith River Alliance
Soda Mountain Wilderness Council
The Wildlands Conservancy
Water Climate Trust
Wild Salmon Center
BeeOdiversity Works with Bee Colonies to Study Environmental Quality & Biodiversity
You’ve heard we have to save the bees, but can bees help us save the planet? That’s the mission of BeeOdiversity, a company that is using bees to track environmental quality and biodiversity in precise detail over large areas. So how does it work?
A colony of bees can collect pollen samples from 4 billion different plants, covering an area up to 700 hectares, in just one year. That’s a lot of data! And it allows BeeOdiversity to cost effectively gather really useful information.
Assisted by AI, a workforce of bees tracks pollution and boosts biodiversity
When Karl Wenner looks at his farm on Upper Klamath Lake in the mountains of southern Oregon, he sees a landscape in transition.
He and his partners converted part of their fields of barley into wetlands along the shore of the lake to filter runoff and protect the quality of the water that eventually flows back into the Klamath River, which empties into the Pacific on California’s coast. The project is part of a larger effort to clean up the river, remove dams and bring back salmon.
Klamath Dam Removal
On March 10, 2023, the Klamath River Renewal Corporation officially broke ground on removal activities for the Klamath River dams. Removal of the four Klamath River dams will be the largest dam removal project in the history of the United States and the largest salmon restoration project ever. It will also begin to restore justice to the Tribes and indigenous peoples who have lived along the Klamath River since time immemorial.