SACRAMENTO SAFARI CLUB, A Chapter of Safari Club International, is a California non-profit organization which has donated over $1,527,000.00 to the preservation of wildlife, to the improvement of natural habitat, to programs that educate the public in the most important role of sport hunters in conservation, to legislation that supports proper game management through hunting and to legislation that encourages sport hunting. Sacramento Safari Club was founded in 1978.

This organization’s primary source of capital is gained through an annual banquet fundraiser that features an auction and raffle offering hunts and merchandise donated by outfitters, artisans, club members and the general public. Throughout the year, members donate their time and personal resources to fund raising, administrative and management activities of the club. Since our inception, the Sacramento Safari Club has funded programs locally, statewide, nationally and internationally.

$300,985 Required 30% of our Chapter’s annual major fund-raiser net proceeds to Safari Club International since 1991

$132,600 California Department of Fish and Game for Tule Elk herd management. Proceeds were generated at Sacramento Safari Club’s 1991 through 1996 banquets and auctions from the sale of Tule Elk tags

$77,175 Wild Programs Unlimited (W.I.L.D.) provides a unique outdoor education and survival experience for teachers’ classroom information. This ongoing project produces far reaching positive results in youth education

$124,370 Youth projects, hunts, scholarships and teacher education: Sharing the Tradition Program, Friends of Sly Park, American Canyon Boys and Girls Club, Georgetown Fishing Derby and California Department of Fish and Game “Fishing in the City” Program, Youth Pheasant Hunt, Youth Education Project

$73,553 Various California wildlife habitat projects sponsorship

$73,277 In support of Sacramento Safari Club’s efforts to advise legislators on critical issues involving conservation, hunter protection and public education

$59,881 Sponsoring field studies of many wild pig and deer herds, including those located at Angel Island, Tehama, Railroad Flat, Mt. Langley, Eastern Sierra and Round Valley

$55,000 Habitat restoration allowing reintroduction of Bighorn Sheep to their historic range in Yosemite

$55,422 Public Education projects and educational films for the Public Broadcasting System of America, such as: Mountain Lion, Return of the Bighorn in California and Yosemite Bighorn Sheep Relocation

$58,794 Chapter contribution to Safari Club International’s Committees: Governmental Affairs, Sportsmen Against Hunger, and Education/AWLS, Louisiana DFG for Hurricane Katrina

$40,595 Support of numerous conservation and pro-hunting groups; Sportsmen’s roundtable, the Yosemite National History Society, Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, California Waterfowl Association, California Wildlife Federation, California Wild Turkey Federation, and Gun Owners of California

$36,150 Support for the Zimbabwe African Conservation Group’s Matetsi Project for well-digging equipment to build a wildlife watering hole, and a computer to process data

$34,418 Helicopter time and radio telemetry collars used in many Department of Fish and Game translocation efforts to restore Bighorn Sheep populations to their once native ranges

$18,400 Support to the Effie Yeaw Nature Center as a sponsor of Wild About Wetlands, by rebuilding an indoor live animal display area and by building a riparian habitat for educational programs and display

$17,500 World Wildlife Museum (WWM)

$16,350 California Department of Fish and Game pronghorn herd management. Proceeds were generated as Sacramento Safari Club’s 1992, 1994 and 1996 banquet and auction through buyers of California pronghorn tags

$22,000 Sacramento Trap Club –Scholastic Youth Shooting Program
$15,000 River Oak School For Children
$19,000 DFG deer and elk herd management

$11,525 Construction of raptor exercise pens for birds of prey used in educational programs at the Sacramento Junior Museum, California Raptor Center and UC Davis Raptor Center

$11,500 Charlie Sunn Scholarship Fund sponsorship, which provides financial assistance and encouragement to college students majoring in biological conservation.

$11,500 Paul Snider Scholarship Fund sponsorship at California State University Sacramento, which provides financial assistance and encouragement to college students majoring in biological conservation

$11,000 Dr. LeRoy Coffroth Memorial Scholarship, California State University, Sacramento sponsorship which provides financial assistance and encouragement to students majoring in biological conservation

$10,000 Kern Chew Scholarship Fund, California State University, Sacramento

$11,500 Game Coin’s endangered black rhino propagation program in Texas

$10,000 Black rhino re-propagation and poaching control project in Zimbabwe
$10,000 S.C.I. Conservation Force
$10,000 Treatment/control of Psoroptic scabies in Bighorn Sheep, directed by Dr. Walter Boyce
$10,000 California Room – S.C.I. Washington, D.C. Office
$ 8,500 DFG “Becoming an Outdoors Woman” Program

$ 7,500 Poaching plan and insurance for Wilderness Conservancy Foundation in Zimbabwe

$ 7,200 Mountain lion roving exhibit constructed and maintained by WWM

$ 7,000 DFG CalTip signs with Sacramento Safari Club name on signs as sponsors and CalTip Public Information film

$ 6,625 Habitat enhancement burn in northern British Columbia and donations to Ministry of Environment

$ 6,100 Department of Fish and Game elk trap project
$10,328 Send top competitors to California State Hunter Education Championship state competition, the National Championships at Remington Farms and U.S. Olympic rifle team support

$ 6,500 North Delta Conservancy
$ 5,000 Lake Superior Chapter to fight a bear hunting issue
$ 4,000 Wild Turkey Federation support to transplant Merriam wild turkeys into California

$ 4,000 PCR cycler for DNA analysis at DFG and additional funding for DNA program to assist in law enforcement cases

$ 3,712 Sponsor feasibility study for enhancement of grizzly bear habitat in British Columbia

$ 3,600 Sierra College Science Center
$ 3,600 Future Farmer of America plaques
$ 2,435 Sacramento Children’s Receiving Home and Help a Child Program
$ 2,000 Trapping Initiative Vote No
$ 1,900 Renovation of the wolf pen at Folsom Zoo
$ 1,625 Ministry of Environment of British Columbia
$ 1,600 Purchase and donation of two polar bears to the Sacramento Zoological Society
$ 1,500 Wilderness Impact Research Foundation to study effects of wilderness hunting
$ 2,500 R.I.F.A. Youth Project, Zimbabwe
$ 1,000 Nevada Fawn Rescue
$ 1,000 NRA Wittington Center

$ 1,000 NTF Jailes Event
$ 750 Gray Lodge Duck Project
$ 500 Utah Trapping Initiative Vote No
$ 500 Alaska Trapping Initiative Vote No
$ 500 Ontario Return of Spring Bear Hunting
$ 500 Mzuri foundation
$ 500 Nevada Public Lands Coalition