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 Developing the Massachusetts Shellfish Initiative Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance 59 coastal towns in Massachusetts, with a focus on the southeast region where majority of shellfish activity is currently taking place. $100,000.00
2017 H. Smith Richardson Wildlife Preserve Restoration Project (CT) Connecticut Audubon Society Westport, Connecticut $145,780.00
2017 Integrating Seabird Data into Fisheries Management in Alaska (AK) Farallon Institute Anchorage, Alaska; Port Townsend, Washington, Petaluma, California; Homer Alaska; Seattle, Washington $99,999.12
2017 Improving Fish Passage in Mill Creek and the Cal-Sag Channel (IL) Friends of the Chicago River Mill Creek is located in the Forest Preserves of Cook County and it runs through McClaughry Springs Forest Preserve before flowing into the Cal-Sag just east of Route 45 LaGrange Road in Palos Park. The disconnection is at Mile 6 of the Cal-Sag Trail. Its headwaters are at 126th St. and 90th Ave. $248,326.47
2017 Collaborative Watershed Planning for the Ten Mile River (CT, NY) Housatonic Valley Association, Inc. The Ten Mile River watershed: Eastern Dutchess County, New York; and western Litchfield County, Connecticut $64,357.56
2017 Prairie Canyonlands Big Horn Sheep & Grassland Birds Restoration The Nature Conservancy Las Animas County, Colorado (southeastern part of the State) $110,642.96
2017 French Meadows Forest Restoration and Fuels Reduction Project, Tahoe National Forest The Nature Conservancy Middle Fork American River watershed, Northern California $351,897.18
2017 Habitat Restoration and Reintroduction of Endangered Gila Topminnow in Bylas Springs (AZ) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bylas Springs on the San Carlos Apache Reservation, Graham County, Arizona $39,777.74
2017 George Creek Greenback Cutthroat Trout Restoration in the Canyon Lakes Ranger District (CO) State of Colorado Department of Natural Resources Arapaho Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado $60,000.00
2017 Identifying Habitat Requirements of the Carolina Heelsplitter to Inform Habitat Restoration and Species Recovery (NC, SC) Clemson University Three HUC 10 watersheds (Headwater Lynches River-0304020201; Little Lynches River-0304020202; and Upper Lynches River-0304020203) in the Lynches River drainage of the greater Pee Dee River Basin. The study area overlaps portions of Lancaster, Kershaw and Chesterfield counties in South Carolina and $169,549.77