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
2025 Building Community Resilience in the Calumet Region (IL, IN) Shirley Heinze Land Trust, Inc. Cook County, Illinois; Lake, Porter, and LaPorte County, Indiana $999,457.86
2025 Expand Monarchs and More Habitat Program (AR, CO, IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, SD, TX, WI, WY) Monarch Joint Venture Habitat improvement efforts are targeted throughout the eastern priority states for NFWF's Monarch Butterfly and Pollinators Conservation Fund. $299,993.50
2025 Conservation and Habitat Restoration for Galápagos Petrel in San Cristóbal's Los Petreles Reserve Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco San Cristobal Island is located in the East Pacific Ocean (coordinates 0°48'S 89°24'W)within the Galápagos archipelago. It
covers 558 km² with a highest point of 730 meters above sea level. Los Petreles Reserve covers around 118 hectares.
$265,102.00
2025 Creating a Coastal Master Plan in Tampa Bay, Florida Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council Citrus, Hernando, Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Sarasota County, Florida $1,993,519.39
2025 Planning to Restore Chalker and Chapman Beach Marshes and Mitigate Marsh-associated Flooding (CT) Town of Old Saybrook Chapman Beach, Town of Westbrook and shoreline of Town Old Saybrook in Middlesex County, Connecticut $323,400.00
2025 Community Driven Restoration and Resilience in the Bagaduce River Watershed (ME) Maine Coast Heritage Trust Mill Creek, Bagaduce River Watershed, Town of Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine $2,094,120.26
2025 Sustaining and Expanding Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Across the Great Plains (CO, SD) Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory dba Bird Conservancy of the Rockies The project takes place in three states across the Great Plains (CO and SD) where land is primarily privately owned. Land use is dominated by farming and ranching and cattle grazing is common. The average poverty rate in Colorado is near 20% and poverty rates exceed 50% on Indigenous Reservations. $749,121.06
2025 Creating a Breeding Colony of Ainley's Storm-petrel on Guadalupe Island (Mex) Pacific Rim Conservation This project will occur on Morro Prieto, a small islet off the western coast of Guadalupe Islands, and at Punta Sur at the southern tip of Guadalupe Island. $41,386.54
2025 Planning Peatland Restoration in the Southern Kenai Peninsula (AK) Alaska Wildlife Alliance Kenai Peninsula, Alaska $398,489.65
2025 Partnering to Restore Grassland Habitat for Whooping Crane and Other Migratory Birds (ND) U.S Fish and Wildlife Service - Devils Lake Wetland Management District This project will be located in and cover the whole state of North Dakota. We aim to work in all of the physiographic regions of North Dakota. $274,999.74