About Us
Improve Quality of Life
Nature Education for All
Improve Quality of Life
The Kane Forest Preserve Foundation actively works to restore, restock, protect and preserve forest preserve lands for the education, recreation and pleasure of all who live here — people, plants and wildlife.
Restore Natural Areas
Nature Education for All
Improve Quality of Life
Less than one-tenth of one percent of the original Illinois prairie remains. The Foundation is a charitable organization that helps the Forest Preserve District of Kane County's efforts to acquire, restore and protect prairies, woodlands and s, wetlands throughout Kane County.
Nature Education for All
Nature Education for All
Nature Education for All
The Kane Forest Preserve Foundation provides leisureships so that cost isn't a barrier to kids to attending summer day camps from the Forest Preserve District of Kane County.
Ways To Help
Sponsor a Tree
Native Plant Sale
Sponsor a Tree
Celebrate 100 years of conservation and community with us! Join us on Sunday, June 8, 2025, from Noon to 3 p.m. at Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve for our Centennial Celebration. This event will feature 800 trees, planted in the Centennial Grove, to enhance our natural landscape.
Your sponsorship will help fund 800 trees and the District's
Celebrate 100 years of conservation and community with us! Join us on Sunday, June 8, 2025, from Noon to 3 p.m. at Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve for our Centennial Celebration. This event will feature 800 trees, planted in the Centennial Grove, to enhance our natural landscape.
Your sponsorship will help fund 800 trees and the District's first public art sculpture, commemorating a century of dedication to our natural heritage. Tree sponsors will be honored with an inscription on a permanent monument at the celebration site.
Corporate Partners Sponsorship Information
Plantinum Sponsor: $25,000
Gold Sponsor: $15,000
Silver Sponsor: $10,000
Bronze Sponsor: $5,000
Centennial Champion: $800
Heritage Partner: $400
Friend of the Forest: $100
To process your sponsorship online via credit card, click here.
Corporate Partners, if you'd like to pay by check, please email KovachBrittany@kaneforest.com.
Giving Tuesday
Native Plant Sale
Sponsor a Tree
Support the Kane Forest Preserve Foundation This Giving Tuesday!
This Giving Tuesday, your donation can go even further! Thanks to the generosity of Tito's Handmade Vodka, all gifts to the Kane Forest Preserve Foundation will be matched -- dollar for dollar -- up to $2,500.
Your support helps us restore, protect, and enhance the Kane Coun
Support the Kane Forest Preserve Foundation This Giving Tuesday!
This Giving Tuesday, your donation can go even further! Thanks to the generosity of Tito's Handmade Vodka, all gifts to the Kane Forest Preserve Foundation will be matched -- dollar for dollar -- up to $2,500.
Your support helps us restore, protect, and enhance the Kane County forest preserves for future generations.
Every dollar you donate from
Nov. 26 - Dec. 3 will help us improve these vital natural spaces for both people and wildlife to enjoy.
Native Plant Sale
Native Plant Sale
Native Plant Sale
Each spring, the Kane Forest Preserve Foundation holds a Native Plant Sale. Thank you to all of our 2024 plant shoppers, FPDKC staff, volunteers, and our sponsors & donors:
Platinum Sponsor
Natural Garden Natives
Gold Sponsor
Law Office of Irv Ochsenschlager
Silver Sponsors
Becky Gillam
The Haberthur Family
Bronze Sponsors
Abbott Party Rental
Leslie Juby
Chris Kious
The Petschke Family
Adopt a Turtle
Kane Golf Outing
Native Plant Sale
Help endangered Blanding's turtles in the Kane County forest preserves. This program funds research, education, seasonal staff, technology, field supplies, and habitat improvements. Adopt a turtle, today!
Click HERE to adopt via credit card.
Click HERE to adopt via check.
For more information, see Adopt a Turtle.
Kane Golf Outing
Kane Golf Outing
Kane Golf Outing
Join us at our inaugural golf outing in support of trails, trees, turtles and more:
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Hughes Creek Golf Course
1749 Spring Valley Drive
Elburn, IL
To Sponsor:
To Golf:
Thank you to all of our 2024 Kane Golf Out
Join us at our inaugural golf outing in support of trails, trees, turtles and more:
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Hughes Creek Golf Course
1749 Spring Valley Drive
Elburn, IL
To Sponsor:
To Golf:
Thank you to all of our 2024 Kane Golf Outing Sponsors:
Course Sponsor
GolfVisions/Hughes Creek
Dinner Sponsor
Midwest Groundcovers and Midwest Trading
Gift Sponsor
Romtec
Putting Green Sponsor
IOC Construction
Beverage Sponsor
Wight & Company
Cart Sponsor
State Senator Don DeWitte
Lunch Sponsor
Astra Health West
Breakfast Sponsors
Chick-fil-A Elgin
Country Donuts - Elgin
Tito's Handmade Vodka
Contest Hole Sponsor
Bluestem Ecological Services
Bob Jass Chevrolet
Chapman & Cutler LLP
Engineering Resources Associates, Inc.
Forest Preserve Commissioners: Deborah Allan, Leslie Juby, Chris Kious, Anita Lewis, Michael Linder & Bill Tarver
HazChem Environmental Corporation
Kane Forest Preserve Foundation Board
KCT Credit Union
Painters District Council No. 30
Tito's Handmade Vodka
Hole Sponsor
Allan Garage Door Inc.
Baxter & Woodman Natural Resources, LLC
Citizens for Suzanne Ness
Kinnally Flaherty Krentz Loran Hodge & Masur, PC
Koenig Body & Equipment, Inc.
Konen Insurance
Lamp Incorporated
Law Office of Irving Ochsenschlager
Mike Kenyon
Obsidian Asphalt Paving
Sawyer Falduto Asset Management, LLC
Speedwagon Capital Partners
Speer Financial, Inc.
State Farm Agent Mark Krueger
Strand Associates, Inc.
Trotter and Associates, Inc.
Village of Algonquin
V3 Companies
Weaver Consultants Group
Donors
Becky Gillam
Pat Kinnally
Help Our Cause
Your support will help the Forest Preserve District of Kane County accomplish more. You may direct your gift to the following categories:
- Plant & Animal Studies
- Adopt-a-Turtle program
- Natural Areas Improvements
- Nature Program Expansion
- Unrestricted: Best Use/Greatest Need
