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
2015 Long Island Sound Component of the 2015 New York Beach Cleanup (NY) American Littoral Society Suffolk, Nassau, Queens, and Bronx Counties, NY $6,000.00
2015 Central Vermont Clear Waters Conservation Initiative (VT) Vermont Land Trust The project is located in a concentration of 13 subwatersheds in east-central Vermont, including the Wells, Waits and Ompompanoosuc River watersheds and parts of the White and Winooski River watersheds. HUC watershed codes are included with the project map. $75,000.00
2015 Revving-Up the La Crosse District Friends Group for New Challenges (WI) Friends of the Refuge - Mississippi River Pools 7 & 8, Inc. The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge stretches 261 miles from Wabasha, Minnesota to Rock Island, Illinois. The La Crosse District manages 35 miles of River and extensive upland. The Visitor Center/Office is located along the Miss. River 5 miles north of La Crosse. $3,564.31
2015 Upper Potomac Farm Stewardship Program (MD, WV) Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. Our Upper Potomac Agricultural Stewardship Program (MD and WV) project will work in the upper Potomac watershed of MD and WV. Some sites are located in NFWF’s priority restoration areas for Eastern Brook Trout. Two projects deal specifically with in-stream restoration to improve trout spawning habit $200,000.00
2015 Hawkins Cove Small-Watershed Restoration and Sustainability Program (MD) Spa Creek Conservancy, Inc. Chesapeake Bay, Severn River, Spa Creek, Hawkins Cove small-watershed - Annapolis, MD. Latitude: 38.9656 and Longitude: -76.4975 $477,506.90
2015 Prioritization and Implementation of Large-Scale BMP Retrofits on Private Lands: A County Perspective (VA) County of Albemarle The project will take place within the jurisdictional boundaries of Albemarle County, Virginia. $183,436.00
2015 Chiques Creek Re-envisioned: A Collaborative Watershed Restoration Initiative to Support Pennsylvania’s Pilot Alternative Total Maximum Daily Load Approach (PA) The Pennsylvania State University The Chiques Creek watershed in Lancaster County, PA $494,690.96
2015 Establishing New Populations of Endangered Species at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (HI) American Bird Conservancy Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, Kaua‘i Island, Hawai‘i, USA $230,916.91
2015 Aerial Surveys for Shorebirds along the Atlantic Flyway New Jersey Audubon Society Coastlines, intertidal zones and coastal estuaries Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Brazil. $49,990.57
2015 Restoring Previously Mined Private Lands in the Cumberland Plateau (KY,TN) University of Kentucky Research Foundation The KY site is located in southern Pike Co. near the town of Dorton and is currently owned by the Big Sandy Company. The TN site is on private property in Campbell Co. that is managed by the Molpus Woodlands Group, and is located in an area that is considered a high priority habitat by Tennessee Wil $146,480.85