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
2015 Reduction and Control of Sediment-Laden Runoff at Playa Jaboncillo, Guánica Puerto Rico Protectores de Cuencas, Inc. Jaboncillo Beach, Guánica Bay/Río Loco Watershed, Puerto Rico $77,985.60
2015 Advancing Watershed Education, Action, and Attitude Change in Underserved Communities in the Lake Michigan Watershed (IN) Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center, Inc. The project will take place in Lake County, Indiana in the cities of Gary, Hammond, and Hobart. Gary students will visit Marquette lagoons, while Hammond and East Chicago students will visit Wolf Lake. Hobart students will visit Lake George. All waters lie in the Lake Michigan Watershed. $50,000.00
2015 Breaking Down Barriers to Conservation: Targeted outreach to increase the adoption of Woodchip Bioreactors on farms which Eastern Shore Land Conservancy currently holds agricultural easements (MD) Earth Data, Inc. Engage agricultural community and to expand the integration of effective, innovative best management practices on properties across priority watershed in six counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. $49,964.97
2015 Actual status of Endangered Species Act -listed Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), Staghorn coral (A. cervicornis), and Star corals (Orbicella annularis, O. faveolata, O. franksi) across the Northeast Reserves and Culebra Island (PR) Sociedad Ambiente Marino Northeast Reserves and Culebra, Puerto Rico $74,986.30
2015 Presque Isle Coastal Wetland Restoration (PA) Ducks Unlimited, Inc. The project area includes restoring coastal wetlands at Thompson and Presque Isle Bay (Priority Sites 1941 and 1844, GLCWMP/NFWF), as well as other wetlands at Presque Isle State Park, Pennsylvania $563,214.89
2015 Improving Connectivity and Habitat on the Pere Marquette River (MI) Mason-Lake Conservation District This project will occur in the watershed of the Pere Marquette River, which drains areas of Mason and Lake Counties (Lower Peninsula, MI) to Lake Michigan. Principal Activities will occur near the City of Ludington (Mason Co.), City of Scottville (Mason Co.) and City of Baldwin (Lake Co.) $424,888.00
2015 Gulf Beach Nesting Bird Conservation Enhancement (LA, TX) American Bird Conservancy This project will take place in Jefferson and Cameron Parishes, Louisiana and in Texas along the Upper Coast and the Central Coast. $199,999.91
2015 Creating an Interpretive Pollinator Garden at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (TX) Friends of Aransas and Matagorda Island National Wildlife Refuges In previously disturbed area adjacent to the Visitor Center parking lot of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. $5,269.08
2015 Veterans Prescribed Fire Crew (MS, AL) Mississippi Land Trust Bon Secour NWR(Alabama), Grand Bay NWR(Alabama/Mississippi, Sandhill Crane NWR(Mississippi), Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve(Mississippi), US Navy Stennis Western Maneuver Area (Mississippi) and private lands within the 2015 eligible HUC-8 watersheds. $200,000.00
2015 Mississippi Coastal Watershed Initiative (MS) Mississippi Land Trust Private lands within the Mississippi portion of four 2015 eligible HUC-8 watersheds – Lower Pearl, Coastal Streams, Lower Pascagoula and Escatawpa. $246,201.68