Donations and Support
Thank you for your generous support of the Vallarta Botanical Garden!
Together we’re creating an incredible resource for our community and Mexico, teeming with purposeful beauty. One-time gifts, support through our Donation Programs (see below), memberships, and commemorative gifts (including customized benches) all qualify as tax-deductible contributions.
Featured Program: Give Every Month (GEM) – Guaranteeing Sustainability!
The GEM Program is all about helping our natural paradise be sustainable year after year. Breaking your gift into automatic monthly payments makes it easier both for you to budget your gift and the garden to cover its expenses throughout the year. We call this our Give Every Month (GEM) Program. We hugely value your support!
General Donations
The Vallarta Botanical Garden appreciates your donation, no matter how much you can afford. Use this donation type to show your generosity and support to the gardens, which will be applied towards the Garden’s General Fund. This is the best way to donate to support our organization.
Breaking your gift into automatic monthly payments makes it easier both for you to budget your gift and the garden to cover its expenses throughout the year. We call this our Give Every Month (GEM) program.
Restricted Gifts to Specific VBG Donation Programs
Research
The Puerto Vallarta region is blessed with incredible plant diversity, and much of this has yet to be thoroughly studied. New species are still being described in our local forests, and discoveries about how these plants function in our local ecosystem or can serve human needs such as food and medicine are ripe for harvesting. Your contributions can lead us to discovery!
Conservation
The Puerto Vallarta region has flourished as a largely intact wilderness until the last few decades. Now, urbanization, the spread of agriculture into formerly pristine areas, and other threats including illegal logging have given us great concern for the future of our forests. We at the Vallarta Botanical Garden are perfectly poised to serve as a leader in conserving our region’s floristic diversity, the basis for an amazing and complex ecosystem. Your contributions can help protect a promising future for our forests and the animals that depend on them!
Horticultural Displays
Public gardens have an imperative to deliver stunning beauty to inspire their visitors. Creating and maintaining this kind of beauty requires continual dedicated labor that can only be provided by well-funded horticultural programs. Do you appreciate the beauty of the Vallarta Botanical Garden? Please help us in our constant quest for excellence with a gift towards our horticultural displays!
Education
From young children visiting us with their families, organized school group field studies from kindergarten to university, to life-long learners of all ages, the Vallarta Botanical Garden provides a living classroom of unprecedented importance in our region. We can do even more, though, with your help. From signage and classes at the Garden to video presentations here and on our website, we have no shortage of powerful ideas for connecting our visitors with the natural world. With your help, we can take off with this work like never before!
Community Outreach
If you’re reading about community outreach in the Vallarta Botanical Garden’s donor pages, we’ll consider you “part of the choir.” But there’s a whole other potential audience out there that can benefit from developing a love and appreciate for our natural world, preserving wild spaces, and beautifying our man-made landscape. Your contributions to our community outreach can help us reach this kind of audience and change our community and planet for the better.
Fund a Position
It takes a village to make the Garden grow and those villagers need to be paid! Our vision is to offer competitive wages and benefits to our staff to attract and retain a stellar team of true professionals. Is there a particular Garden staff member who has inspired you to contribute towards funding their position? Or do you see the need for a new position, such as a full-time educator? If so, please speak with one of our board members about doing so today. Just email info@vbgardens.org with the subject “ATTN: VBG BOARD MEMBERS.”
Tax Information
The Vallarta Botanical Garden can provide tax-deductible receipts for donations made by Canadian and US taxpayers.
We are a registered charity (Asociación Civil) in Mexico.
Donating within Mexico
Cash, check and credit card donations are accepted at the Vallarta Botanical Garden. Please visit us!
Donating by Credit Card
Credit card payments may be made by phone: 322 223 6182 (10am – 6pm, closed Mondays over the summer)
Donating by Bank Deposit
Direct bank deposits can be made to: Banorte account # 0201383728 (account name: Vallarta Botanical Gardens A.C.)
Vallarta Botanical Gardens AC is a not-for-profit organization registered in Mexico. The VBG is not a “Donataria Autorizada” and therefore cannot expedite a tax-deductible receipt in Mexico.
Donating within Mexico
Cash, check and credit card donations are accepted at the Vallarta Botanical Garden. Please visit us!
Donating by Credit Card
Credit card payments may be made by phone: 322 223 6182 (10am – 6pm, closed Mondays over the summer).
Donating by Bank Deposit
Direct bank deposits can be made to: Banorte account # 0201383728 (account name: Vallarta Botanical Gardens A.C.)
Vallarta Botanical Gardens AC is a not-for-profit organization registered in Mexico. The VBG is not a “Donataria Autorizada” and therefore cannot expedite a tax-deductible receipt in Mexico.
Thank you for donating to the Vallarta Botanical Garden and for helping to guarantee horticultural excellence and protecion of our region’s biodiversity.
Donating within Canada
Our educational programs qualify for tax-deductible receipts provided by the Canadian Children’s Shelter of Hope Foundation (CCSHF), our partner T3010 registered charity. Your donations to Vallarta Botanical Garden via CCSHF are, therefore, tax-deductible.
Donating Online
You can donate online by following this link and choosing one of the options. Make a one-time donation or join our GEM (Give Every Month) program! Your support means the world to us.
Donating by Cheque
Please mail your cheques to:
Canadian Children’s Shelter of Hope Foundation, 87 Lavinia Ave, Unit #2, Toronto, Ontario M6S 3H9, Canada
Please write your cheques to “Canadian Children’s Shelter of Hope Foundation”, indicating in a covering note that the donation is for the Vallarta Botanical Garden.
Donating by Wire Transfer
Please use the information below for wire transfers, which are in USD:
Bank: Bank of Montreal
Account number: 03794602355
Transit Number: 03792
Institution Number: 001
Thank you for donating to the Vallarta Botanical Garden and for helping to guarantee horticultural excellence and protecion of our region’s biodiversity.
Donating within the U.S.A.
Our direct support 501(c)3 partner charity in the USA is “Friends of Vallarta Botanical Garden, A.C.”, which takes donations and issues tax-deductible receipts on our behalf.
Donating Online
You can donate online by following this link and choosing one of the options. Make a one-time donation or join our GEM (Give Every Month) program! Your support means the world to us.
Donating by Check
Please make out checks to “Friends of Vallarta Botanical Garden A.C.” and mail to:
Kim Roberts, Treasurer,
1 Glen Drive
Mill Valley CA, 94941
United States
Donating by Wire Transfer
If you would like to donate by wire transfer, please get in touch with Chris Jacobs, Head of Development & Fundraising, by email at christopherj@vbgardens.org or by phone on +52 322 223 6182. Chris will be happy to help!
Donating by Credit Card
Please call us to donate by card on +52 322 223 6182. Ask for Chris Jacobs.
Thank you for donating to the Vallarta Botanical Garden and for helping to guarantee horticultural excellence and protecion of our region’s biodiversity.