2026 General Fund: Penn Dixie Donation Fund
Help keep Penn Dixie protected and thriving.
Penn Dixie runs on community support. Your donation to our General Fund helps cover the essentials that keep the site open to the public, safe and maintained, and protected for its fossil and historic value. It also supports our living classroom, where visitors of all ages learn science hands-on, right in the field.
We’re raising $10,000 to sustain operations and continue improving our nature reserve and bird sanctuaries. Every gift makes a real difference—thank you for helping keep Penn Dixie thriving.
Suggested Contributions
$19.93 – Our 1993 founding by local environmental activists and scientists.
$53 – The number of fossil species guests can collect at the park.
$86 – The number of community groups and schools that visited us in 2018.
$140 – The number of species of migratory and local birds found on site.
$380 – The age of our tropical sea fossils in hundreds of millions of years.
$2,011 – The year that Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve was ranked as the #1 fossil park in the United States by a Geological Society of America Special Paper for accessibility, quality of educational experience, and location.
Please click on the Green Donate link below to be directed to our donation page.
Penn Dixie is operated by the Hamburg Natural History Society, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1993. All proceeds support our mission of science education. Donations are tax-deductible and help us provide the best science possible to tens of thousands of learners annually.