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
2017 Early Detection and Rapid Response – Invasive Species U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service $64,900.00
2017 Managing Pecos Pupfish Habitat in the Pecos Watershed (NM) New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Bottomless Lakes State Park and the Bureau of Land Management Overflow Wetlands in Chaves County, New Mexico $63,817.60
2017 Improving Eastern Hellbender Habitat on Private Lands in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The project includes rivers and streams within the Greater Tennessee River Basin in western Virginia, western North Carolina, and much of Tennessee including the Kanawha, French Broad/Holston, and Upper and Lower Cumberland River Basins. $647,994.31
2017 Youth Development Opportunities on Sensitive Species Habitat and Infrastructure (UT) American Conservation Experience west of Cedar City and 5 miles of downtown Cedar City, Utah $57,600.01
2017 Bringing Island Youth Together in Conservation (WA) San Juan Islands Conservation District The San Juan Islands in San Juan County, Washington $74,187.44
2017 Bureau of Land Management Southwestern Wisconsin Island Restoration Initiative Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps 10 Bureau of Land Management islands in the Rock River, southwestern Wisconsin $20,000.02
2017 Birds, Herds, and Stewards: Sustainable Working Lands for the Future – Enhancing Northern Great Plains Grasslands Biodiversity, Productivity, and Economics American Bird Conservancy The focus counties are within the Dakota Grasslands: MT - Prairie, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Carter; ND - Slope, Bowman, Sioux; SD- Harding, Perkins, Corson, Dewey, Ziebach and the Powder River-Thunder Basin Grasslands: WY - Weston, Converse, Niobrara, Campbell; SD - Fall River. $230,000.00
2017 Adding capacity for stewardship of private lands in the Northern Great Plains Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory dba Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Stewardship Biologists will work predominantly in areas of western South Dakota, northeast Wyoming and central Montana however they will travel to realize opportunities with partners in other areas on the Northern Great Plains including se MT and w ND. $230,000.00
2017 Using environmental DNA to map the distributions of aquatic species in areas within and near the Zaca, Piru, and Jesusita fire scars University of California - Santa Barbara This project focuses on perennial waters within the fire perimeters of the Zaca, Piru and and Jesusita fires, along with adjacent unburned reference streams and other streams previously burned (from earlier fire impact studies by our UCSB lab) to provide a time-series of fire histories. $137,617.56
2017 Illuminating Botanical Black Holes to Guide Restoration in the Zaca and Jesusita Fire Areas Santa Barbara Botanic Garden The Zaca and Jesusita Fire areas. $180,966.99