Grants Library

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation supports vital conservation projects across the United States and its territories. Please search our grants library for additional information on individual grants.

Year Name Organization Location Award Amount
2016 Building Capacity for Monarch Recovery Among Electric Utilities (IA, IL, MN, WI) Sand County Foundation, Inc. Monarch summer breeding territory in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, including vacant land surrounding electric power generation stations and infrastructure, and agricultural lands within electric transmission and gas pipeline rights-of-way. $98,765.31
2016 Monarch Butterfly Conservation in the Mexico Migratory Route PRONATURA NORESTE A.C. All aspects of this project will take place on public and private lands located in the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí in México. $49,846.32
2016 Pre-Implementation of Electronic Monitoring for Alaska’s Pot Cod Fishery Saltwater Inc. Anchorage, Alaska; Fishing grounds in the Gulf of Alaska Western and Central Regulatory Areas, and the Bering Sea $620,036.29
2016 Using Pronghorn to Design and Apply a Multi-Species Approach for Conserving Connectivity in the Northern Great Plains (MT, AB) Alberta Conservation Association The project will occur in grasslands of MT and AB. The fence modification evaluation will occur at TNC’s Matador Ranch (MT) and at CFB Suffield (AB). Fence modification efforts will occur on targeted TNC Matador Ranch and grassbank member’s land in MT and target deeded/grazing land in AB. $156,223.46
2016 Protecting Working Hardwood Forestland and Bat Habitat in Skinner Mountain Forest (TN) The Conservation Fund, A Nonprofit Corporation Fentress and Overton Counties, northern Tennessee $500,000.00
2016 Nebraska Sandhills Landscape Conservation: A Public Private Partnership Nebraska Community Foundation FBO Rainwater Basin Joint Venture Nebraska’s Sandhills are a 19,300 square-mile sand dune formation located in the north-central portion of the state. This landscape contains abundant lakes, wetlands, wet meadows, and spring-fed streams scattered across the largest contiguous grass-stabilized dune system in North America. $149,040.00
2016 Increasing Water Quality and Community Stewardship through Urban Forest Restoration and Tree Canopy Management in Greensboro, MD Shorerivers, Inc. Greensboro, Maryland. Caroline County. $43,247.15
2016 Texas Environmental Flows Initiative Acquisition Scenarios Viability Assessment and Transaction Negotiation Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Targeted bays are Tres Palacios and Carancahua Bays which feed Matagorda Bay; Trinity Bay which feeds Galveston Bay; and San Antonio Bay. $54,742.94
2016 Little Calumet and Deep River Habitat and Recreational Enhancement Project Save the Dunes Conservation Fund, Inc. The project sites are located in Northwest Indiana along the Little Calumet River in Porter County adjacent to INDU's Heron Rookery unit; along Deep River in the City of Hobart; along a 3-mile stretch of the East Branch of the Little Calumet River between Highway 20 to Highway 149 in INDU. $281,917.62
2016 Upper Greenbrier Aquatic Restoration (WV) Trout Unlimited, Inc. Towns of Bartow and Durbin and the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia $94,480.23