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 Cambridge Residential Stewardship Initiative Nanticoke Watershed Alliance, Inc. The Cambridge Residential Stewardship Initiative will be open to residents of the City of Cambridge, Maryland. $83,851.26
2016 Kinsey Run Stream Restoration and Fish Blockage Removal Project Friends of the Rappahannock The project is located in an unincorporated community called Graves Mill in Madison County, Virginia. Kinsey Run runs parallel to State Route 615 otherwise known as Bluff Mountain Road. $193,082.80
2016 Black Duck Decision Support Tool Implementation Project Ducks Unlimited, Inc. This pilot project will be implemented across a multi-county focus area on the eastern shores of Maryland and Virginia. Using the Black Duck Decision Support Tool to guide the selection of properties funded will ensure that only the highest quality black duck habitats are preserved as a part of this $199,830.40
2016 Gulf Coast Prescribed Fire Mentoring Program for Underserved Youth The Nature Conservancy The project will station youth in six locations across the five Gulf states. The youth will actively work in seven Significant Geographic Areas or Significant Sites for Longleaf Pine, two designations established in the Rangewide Conservation Plan for Longleaf, as shown on the accompanying map. $499,627.24
2016 Habitat Restoration and Management on Private Rangelands in Southwest Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association All projects will be located in the Milk River Watershed in southwestern Saskatchewan. The website www.sodcap.com has maps of the area of interest. $200,000.00
2016 Rappahannock Water Trail App Project Rappahannock Wildlife Refuge Friends Group Along the entire Rappahannock River with major focus on the boundary area of the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge. $15,000.00
2016 Visitor Center Hiking Trail at TNWR Friends of Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge, Inc. Our trail is located on the Big Sandy Unit of the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge in Springville, Tennessee within 50 feet of our new visitor center. The visitor center is located in Henry County, Tennessee where Paris is the county seat. $3,858.72
2016 Calumet Tree Conservation Corps The Student Conservation Association, Inc. Grand Calumet watersheds.
Cities of East Chicago, Whiting, Hammond, Gary.
Lake County.
$127,287.94
2016 Interagency eDNA Database of Fish Distributions to Support Strategic Conservation Decisions U.S. Forest Service Twelve states in the American West and Rocky Mountain Region $89,342.47
2016 Kickapoo Boots-on-the-Ground Collaborative Southwest Badger Resource Conservation & Development Council This project will occur on private properties in the Kickapoo River Watershed - a high priority of the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watershed Initiative. This Driftless Area project drains 768 sq miles of land boasting 250+ miles of trout waters, agriculture land use of 50% and forest land 48%. $200,000.00