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 Advancing the Living Shoreline Collaborative for Improving Coastal Habitat and Improved Water Quality (VA) James River Association Lower James River watershed in Virginia $1,925,284.23
2025 Restoring Critical Shell Rake Habitat to Support Reproductive Success of American Oystercatcher (NC) National Audubon Society, Inc. Lower Cape Fear on two natural islands, Shellbed and Striking, in Brunswick County, North Carolina $135,000.00
2025 Improving Longleaf Pine Habitat on Public and Private Lands in North Florida and Southeast Georgia Alachua Conservation Trust, Inc. North Central Florida and Southeast Georgia $3,000,000.00
2025 Integrating Land Stewardship, and Monitoring for Early-successional Grassland Birds (MT, NE, SD, WY) Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory dba Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Eastern Montana (McCone, Prairie, Garfield Counties), western South Dakota (Meade, Butte, Harding, Perkins, Haakon Counties), eastern Wyoming (Platte, Goshen, Converse, Niobrara Counties), and northwestern Nebraska (Dawes, Sioux, Box Butte, Sheridan Counties) $1,229,753.47
2025 Revitalizing Grasslands and Sustaining Tribal Livelihoods (SD) Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation The Pine Ridge Reservation is located in Southwestern South Dakota, encompassing parts of Oglala Lakota County and neighboring areas. The South Unit, also known as the Stronghold Unit, of Badlands National Park lies within the reservation, a sacred area rich in cultural and historical significance. $400,000.00
2025 Installing Exclusion Fencing to Reduce Desert Tortoise Highway Mortality near Barstow, California Desert Tortoise Council I-40 Daggett to Newberry Springs, east of Barstow, California $308,416.00
2025 Growing Community Capacity and Collaborative Action in the Sagebrush-Grasslands (MT, ND, SD, WY) Ducks Unlimited, Inc. The NGPJV geography includes 68 counties located in southeastern Montana, west river North and South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming. We intend to prioritize work in NFWF's Missouri-Milk River and Dakota Grasslands priority areas. $685,000.00
2025 Identifying, Assessing, Prioritizing and Implementing Water Transactions in the Upper Salmon and Teton River Basins (ID) Idaho Department of Water Resources Upper Salmon and Teton River Basins, Idaho. $319,548.27
2025 Bottomland Hardwood Habitat Management on Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge (LA) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge, St. Martin Parish, Iberville Parish, Louisiana $280,000.00
2025 Streamflow Monitoring and Water Transaction Support (WA) Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Water transactions associated with the CBWTP located within the Columbia River and all of its tributaries that lie in the Washington State boundaries. $103,947.56