What United Plant Savers does

United Plant Savers is a privately held organization founded in 1994, operating from a small team of 1–10 employees. The company's website is hosted at unitedplantsavers.org, and it is led by Rosemary Gladstar in the role of Founding President, indicating a founder-driven organizational structure with continuity since inception. The legal/operating name, specific product offerings, monetization mechanics, customer segments, and value proposition are not documented in the supplied source material — most third-party data blocks returned only loading/verification pages with no substantive content, and the firm's internal product, revenue model, and technology fields are empty.

There is a notable data-quality inconsistency in the firmographics: the short description references IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), and the location is listed as Gland, Switzerland — which is IUCN's headquarters rather than United Plant Savers' actual domicile. This appears to be a source-contamination artifact rather than a factual claim about the organization. Accordingly, any geographic, ownership, or mission-specific characterization beyond what is directly stated should be treated as unsupported by the input. What can be stated with confidence is limited to: 1994 founding, private status, very small headcount (1–10), a single named founder/president, and an active web presence. The company_type field is recorded as "for_profit," though this is inconsistent with the conservation-oriented name and founder profile typical of similar entities in this space; this should be flagged as a data gap rather than asserted as fact.

Name

United Plant Savers

Website

https://unitedplantsavers.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

United Plant Savers is a privately held organization founded in 1994, operating with 1–10 employees and led since inception by Founding President Rosemary Gladstar; specific products, customers, and revenue mechanics are not documented in the available source data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

NAICS

Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products (113210), Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions (71219)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Medicinal Chemicals & Botanical Products (2833)

akta.pro primary industry

Land Trusts & Protected Areas (BPAGAGAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Native Species & Restoration Plant Nurseries (AFAMADAF), Medicinal Plant Farming (Botanical/Pharmaceutical Crops) (AFAGAGAE)

Keywords

• Plant conservation
• Medicinal plant protection
• Habitat preservation
• Herbal education
• Native species stewardship

Headquarters

HQ city

Gland

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

United Plant Savers is a conservation organization dedicated to protecting native medicinal plants and their habitats through preservation efforts, education, and stewardship programs. Founded by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar in 1994, the organization works to safeguard at-risk medicinal plant populations and promote responsible land management practices among herbalists, growers, and land stewards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• World Wildlife Fund: Global conservation NGO with broad species and habitat mandate. Comparable as a conservation nonprofit that solicits mass membership and donor support; relevant as a benchmark for scaling donor infrastructure that United Plant Savers could emulate for medicinal-plant-specific fundraising.
• TRAFFIC: Wildlife trade monitoring network co-managed with IUCN and WWF. Relevant because medicinal-plant overharvesting is a regulated trade issue; TRAFFIC addresses the same demand-side pressures facing United Plant Savers' at-risk species, but at a trade/policy level rather than habitat level.
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World-leading botanical institution operating gardens, seed banks, and global plant-conservation programs. A broad incumbent with overlapping mission in medicinal/endangered-plant conservation, but with vastly greater scale, government support, and scientific infrastructure.
• International Union for Conservation of Nature: The world's largest conservation network (IUCN), referenced in the company's own description. United Plant Savers sits inside this broader conservation umbrella; IUCN is the broad incumbent providing scientific frameworks and policy engagement that organizations like United Plant Savers plug into.
• Arbor Day Foundation: U.S. nonprofit focused on tree planting, conservation, and education. Compares as a nonprofit driving in-situ plant stewardship through a member-and-partnership model, but with a general tree-planting (vs. medicinal-plant) focus.

Direct peers

• Native Plant Trust: U.S. nonprofit operating native plant sanctuaries and seed-conservation programs in New England. Closely comparable to United Plant Savers on the native-plant-sanctuary model and small-team nonprofit structure, focused on habitat preservation rather than medicinal use cases.
• American Botanical Council: Nonprofit herb-industry education and research organization with deep coverage of medicinal botanicals. Comparable as a nonprofit advocacy/research entity serving the medicinal-plant community, with a different (industry/education) emphasis than United Plant Savers' habitat-conservation focus.
• Center for Plant Conservation: U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to conserving rare and endangered native plants. Directly comparable to United Plant Savers in mission (native plant conservation), nonprofit structure, and small-team operating model, but with a broader botanical (vs. medicinal-specific) focus.
• Botanic Gardens Conservation International: Global network of botanical gardens coordinating plant conservation internationally. Shares the medicinal/endangered-plant conservation mandate with United Plant Savers and operates an institutional network model analogous to United Plant Savers' sanctuary-and-membership approach, but at global scale.
• Herb Research Foundation: Herbal medicine research and education nonprofit with a focus on medicinal plants. Directly comparable on the medicinal-plant advocacy mission and nonprofit membership model, with greater emphasis on scientific research rather than in-situ conservation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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