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
2023 Resilient Shoreline Restoration at Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Centennial Park (NY) City of Buffalo Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Centennial Park, City of Buffalo, Erie County, New York $6,000,000.00
2023 Advancing Priority Coastal Resilience Projects in Great Lakes Shoreline Communities (MI, WI) Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Coastal West Michigan, Southeast Michigan, and East Wisconsin $999,995.77
2023 Designing Living Shorelines to Restore Estuarine Habitats in West Galveston Bay (TX) Galveston Bay Foundation Sweetwater Preserve and Maggie’s Cove, West Galveston Bay, Texas $167,423.47
2023 Restoring Back River Creek Tidal Marsh to Enhance Community and Habitat Resilience (ME) Kennebec Estuary Land Trust Woolwich, Sagadahoc County, Maine $3,506,433.80
2023 Hydraulic Reconnection to Restore Salmonid Habitat at Thomas’ Eddy (WA) Snohomish County City of Snohomish, Snohomish County, Washington State $5,844,800.00
2023 Collaborative Planning to Improve Wetland Stewardship in West Loch, Pearl Harbor (HI) Hui o Ho`ohonua West Loch, Pearl Harbor, O'ahu, Hawaii $499,994.00
2023 Developing and Piloting a Coastal Resilience Toolkit for Thin Layer Placement in Coastal Virginia The Elizabeth River Project Elizabeth River, Hampton Roads, Virginia $550,000.00
2023 Designing Wetland Habitat Structures to Revitalize Milwaukee's Harbor (WI) Harbor District Inc. Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin $455,817.31
2023 Living Shoreline Planning to Improve Resilience in Montauk (NY) Town of East Hampton Lake Montauk is the largest surface waterbody in Town and Fort Pond is the second largest freshwater pond on LI. They are critical sensitive areas identified in the Town's Coastal Resilience Plan as locations where breaching can occur in major storms impacting commercial and residential districts. $350,000.00
2023 Developing the East River Resilience Collaborative for Nature-Based, Community-Driven Solutions (WI) The Nature Conservancy The East River Watershed, located in northeast Wisconsin, is a coastal tributary to Green Bay, Lake Michigan covering 13 municipalities and three counties (Brown, Manitowoc, Calumet). It is characterized by agriculture and urban land use, critical fish and wildlife habitat, and coastal flooding. $199,810.71