Santa Cruz Island Foundation

The Santa Cruz Island Foundation is a non-profit public benefit corporation established in 1985 by the late Carey Stanton to collect, maintain, and catalog items of real and personal property or interests regarding Santa Cruz Island and the other California Channel Islands, unique island environments off the coast of Southern California .

The Foundation displays for public benefit these items in cooperation with The Nature Conservancy, National Park Service and others as well as to promote research and publications dealing with historical aspects of the California Channel Islands.

In addition, the Santa Cruz Island Foundation organizes and sponsors public exhibits and events dealing with the California Channel Islands, and organizes and sponsors educational trips.