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Our gardens rely on the generosity and support of our community. The Sustaining Garden Donor Program is not a membership, but a monthly giving program. Each month, your gift will maintain the beauty of the Arboretum while also helping us grow by providing crucial resources that our gardens rely on all year round.

Help us continue our mission to inspire appreciation and stewardship of desert plants, wildlife, and ecosystems through education, research, and conservation by becoming a monthly Sustaining Garden Donor.

All funds received will go directly to support our gardens while you receive special benefits depending on your monthly gift.

Just think, in one year:

$10/month (or $120/year)

Your gift could provide 1-2 small gardening tools, such as hand shovels or rakes, for one of our horticulturalists

Your benefits:
• Emailed newsletter directly from the Horticulture staff in the Fall & Winter
• Tour with a Horticulturalist offered 2 times a year
• Digital gift certificate
• Name recognition on our website

$50/month (or $600/year)

Your gift could provide plant food and fertilizer for two gardens, like the Hummingbird and Butterfly Garden or Cactus and Succulent Garden, for one year

Your benefits:
• All of the benefits listed above
• PLUS year-round 15% discount on plants

$100/month (or $1,200/year)

Your gift could provide over 100 arid desert, low water-use plants, such as desert willow and desert milkweed, to refresh the gardens

Your benefits:
• All of the benefits listed above
• PLUS Private tour with a Horticulturalist (upon request)
• AND an additional 5% discount on plants, adding up to a year-round 20% discount on plants

Disclaimer: Discounts cannot be combined with any other membership discount or special promotions.

JOIN TODAY!

By becoming a Sustaining Garden Donor, you will enable us to fulfill our mission to inspire appreciation and stewardship of desert plants, wildlife, and ecosystems through education, research, and conservation. Your monthly contributions will help us maintain the beauty of the Arboretum while also helping us grow by providing crucial resources that our gardens rely on all year round.

Annual withdrawals from traditional retirement accounts are required after age 70-1/2, and the penalty for skipping a required minimum distribution (RMD) is 50% of the amount that should have been withdrawn. However, if you are in the fortunate position of not needing your distribution for living expenses, you can avoid income tax on your required withdrawal by donating directly to a qualifying charity such as Boyce Thompson Arboretum. 

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Are you interested in doubling, perhaps even tripling your gift to BTA? Many companies will match their employees’ gifts, often up to $3,000 per year, at no additional cost for employees, and the Arboretum can benefit! Please check with your HR department to find out whether your company is a matching gift sponsor.

Arranging for a matching gift is as easy as 1-2-3:

1. Get a copy of your matching gift form from your company’s HR department and mail or drop it off with your gift.

2. BTA will verify your gift and return the matching gift form directly to your company’s designated matching partner.

3. Boyce Thompson Arboretum will then receive a check from your employer, matching your gift. You will receive recognition credit.

Already gave? Most matching companies will honor gifts given within the current calendar year. Simply send or bring your matching gift form to the Development Office, and we’ll take it from there! For more information, please call (520) 689-4588 or [email protected].
Thank you for considering this simple and effective way to support Boyce Thompson Arboretum!

From buildings to benches to boojums, dozens of structures and plant specimens throughout the Arboretum’s 343 acres stand as personalized, one-of-a-kind tributes. Commemorate an important life event with a unique addition to our horticulture collection; remember a loved one with a memorial bench; celebrate a joyous occasion with a dedicated picnic table or named garden. There are many ways to make a lasting impact. The Arboretum offers a wide variety of gift options including benches, plants and trees*, discrete gardens or other structures. To learn more about creating a memorial or tribute at the Arboretum, please call (520) 689-4588. To make a general donation in memory or in honor of a loved one click here, or choose one of the active campaigns below

Gifts of tangible personal property (books, artwork, plant specimens, etc.) can be accepted if they further the mission of BTA. The Gift Acceptance Committee may, at their discretion, choose to accept a gift of tangible personal property that is readily marketable for the purpose of liquidating the asset. Property for the use of BTA with an appraised or estimated fair market value of less than $500 may be accepted by the receiving department in consultation with a Development Officer. Gifts of property valued at $500 or more must be approved by the Gift Acceptance Committee.