Support our Effort!

Play an important role in supporting sustainable cacao and preserving fine chocolate for future generations. ​Your generosity helps to:

• Identify the world’s supply of high quality, flavorful, heirloom cacao trees.
• Increase the potential for farmers and cooperatives to receive higher market value for their certified beans.
• Protect and preserve these quickly vanishing cacao species.

General Donation

Your gift of any amount  supports the research, mapping, genetic identification, and flavor analysis of fine flavor cacao species from around the world. A ‘feel good’ & ‘real good’ gesture. Who doesn’t want to give to that? ​

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Adopt a Cacao Tree

Become a champion of an Heirloom family farm that produces your favorite chocolate! Adopt-a-cacao tree on one of our Heirloom designated farms, and receive your individual adoption kit with your tree location details, adoption certificate and chocolate!

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The HCP is a 501c3 non-profit organization. You will receive a tax receipt for your donation.

Meet our Donors

​Our donors are the reason we have been able to designate our heirloom farms – especially those who wouldn’t be able to apply without our funding. We are grateful for your contribution to identifying and preserving the most extraordinary tasting cacao. Thank you!

Our Major Sponsors

Matt & Yelena Caputo – Tony Caputo’s Market & Deli donates the proceeds from their annual Chocolate Festival 

​Since 2013 they have raised over $40,000 for HCP!

Fine Chocolate Industry Association (FCIA) Membership donates a percentage of their membership fees to support HCP

Since 2019 they have donated $8,500!

Maya Schoop-Rutten is a long standing and beloved supporter of HCP.

Since 2012 she has donated $8,000!

Our Bursary Sponsors

Maya Schoop-Rutten – Chocolate Maya – 3 Bursary Sponsorships
Dr. Jeff & Deborah Hurst, New York, NY – 2 Bursary Sponsorships
Susan Scola Streckenbach – The Chocolateers
Dana Brewster & Mark DelVecchio – Millcreek Cacao Roasters
Emily Luchetti – Chief Pastry Officer
Steven Prickett, Albuquerque, NM

Our General Sponsors

National Confectioners Association, since 2019
TCF Sales, Since 2020
Chi Bui, K + M Chocolate

Founding Circle

And a thank you to the members of our Founding Circle. Twenty-five chocolate companies and industry stakeholders - of which the vast majority were artisan and small independents - stepped up to provide funding for the official launch the HCP in June 2012.

Agostoni Chocolate	Chocodiem	Ecole Chocolat	Guittard Chocolate	Soma Chocolatemaker
Amano Chocolate	Chocolates El Rey	Flying Noir	Manufacturing Confectioner	SPAGnVOLA
Beth Tully	Dandelion Chocolate	Fran’s Chocolates	Marañón Chocolate	TCHO
Blommer Chocolate Company	​De Vries Chocolate	Glacier Confection	Mars, Inc.	The Art of Chocolate
Choclatique	​Dessert Professional	Gnosis Chocolate	Mary Jo Stojak	​the C-spot