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 [email protected] with the subject “ATTN: VBG BOARD MEMBERS.”
Tax Information
The Vallarta Botanical Garden can provide tax-deductible receipts for donations made by Mexican, Canadian and US taxpayers.
We are a registered charity (Asociación Civil) in Mexico.
Donating within Mexico
- Cash, check, & credit card donations are accepted at the Vallarta Botanical Garden. Please visit!
- Credit card payments may be made by phone: 322 223 6182 (10am – 6pm, closed Mon. in summer)
- Direct Deposits: Banorte account # 0201383728 (account name: Vallarta Botanical Gardens A.C.)
- Vallarta Botanical Gardens AC is a non for profit organization registered in Mexico, The VBG is not a “Donataria Autorizada” therefore it can not expedite a tax deductible receive in Mexico.
Donating within Mexico
- Cash, check, & credit card donations are accepted at the Vallarta Botanical Garden. Please visit!
- Credit card payments may be made by phone: 322 223 6182 (10am – 6pm, closed Mon. in summer)
- Direct Deposits: Banorte account # 0201383728 (account name: Vallarta Botanical Gardens A.C.)
- Vallarta Botanical Gardens AC is a non for profit organization registered in Mexico, The VBG is not a “Donataria Autorizada” therefore it can not expedite a tax deductible receive in Mexico.
Donating within Canada
Our educational programs qualify for tax-deduction receipts provided by The Canadian Children’s Shelter of Hope Foundation (CCSHF)
Cheques may be mailed to:
Canadian Children’s Shelter of Hope Foundation
87 Lavinia Ave, Toronto, ON
M6S 3H9, Canada
Wire transfers USD currency:
Bank: Bank of Montreal
Account number: 03794602355
Transit Number: 03792
Institution Number: 001
Please write “VBG” for “Vallarta Botanical Gardens” on your cheques.
If you are a Canadian citizen wishing to make a tax deductible gift to the “Vallarta Botanical Gardens Fund,” Follow this link.
Donating within U.S.A.
Our direct support 501(c)3, “Friends of Vallarta Botanical Garden, A.C.” issues tax-deduction receipts.
Checks should be made out to:
Friends of Vallarta Botanical Garden A.C.
and mailed to:
1 Glen Drive
Mill Valley CA, 94941
United States
Wire transfers:
Bank: Chase
Routing number: 322271627
Account number: 631003921
If you are a American citizen wishing to make a tax deductible gift to the “Vallarta Botanical Gardens Fund,” Follow this link.
Conservatory Account: 3310099857
Credit Card Payments: Call us w/ your card info: +52 322 223 6182
Donations of stocks and IRA distributions:
Charles Schwab Account # 46789311 DTC
Clearing # 164 Code: 40
Chase Brokerage DTC # 0352
Account # 7422361