Native bee and butterfly habitat work, from roadside plantings to the survey projects that tell anyone what is actually still out there.
4 organizations
Golden Sands Pollinator Plots
Stevens Point, WI · EIN 39-3170492 · Founded 2015
Verified since 2024
3.2 / 4 accountability631 donors hereListed 2 years
Native forb plantings on county road right of way and on farm margins in Portage and Waupaca. About 60 acres in so far. We supply the plugs and the landowner does the mowing schedule.
PlantingsRoadside habitat
78% of expenses go to programs · $19,407 raised here this year
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Monarch Waystation Network
Ottumwa, IA · EIN 42-1662085 · Founded 2003
Verified since 2021
3.8 / 4 accountability2,874 donors hereListed 5 years
The Network registers and supplies monarch waystations across the central flyway, with 4,100 sites in eleven states as of this spring. We ship milkweed and nectar plugs at cost, run the fall tagging program, and publish the annual site survey. Gifts underwrite plant material for schools and public sites, which is where roughly two thirds of our shipments go.
MilkweedWaystationsSchoolsTagging
87% of expenses go to programs · $188,216 raised here this year
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Ozark Native Bee Survey
Mountain View, AR · EIN 71-2405913 · Founded 2018
Verified since 2025
2.9 / 4 accountability143 donors hereListed 1 year
Bowl trapping and hand collection across the Ozark National Forest and adjacent private land, building a county-level list of native bees for a state that has never had one. Specimens go to the state collection. Slow, unglamorous work, and it depends entirely on small gifts and one graduate stipend.
SurveysCollection
72% of expenses go to programs · $5,233 raised here this year
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Verde Valley Milkweed Co-op
Cottonwood, AZ · EIN 86-3092764 · Founded 2017
Verified since 2024
3.1 / 4 accountability296 donors hereListed 2 years
we grow out four native milkweeds at the cottonwood site and give them away free to anyone in yavapai county who will plant them. also collect seed along the verde. its a co op so most of the labor is members. money buys pots, soil and the shade cloth which we go through fast in the summer.
MilkweedSeed
75% of expenses go to programs · $11,298 raised here this year
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