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 | Stream Watch Volunteers: Protecting Alaska's Native Fish | Kenai Watershed Forum | This proposal is specific to Alaska's popular Kenai Peninsula. Volunteers complete hands-on river protection projects and share educational messages across the peninsula but focus predominately on the Kenai, Kasilof and Russian Rivers. The Kenai Peninsula is approximately the size of West Virginia. | $25,000.00 |
| 2015 | California Brown Pelican Post-delisting Monitoring in the U.S. (CA) | California Institute of Environmental Studies | * | $121,800.00 |
| 2015 | Nutrient Trading Feasibility and Assessment Project (MD,PA,VA) | Council Fire | Assessment will include the applicable programs in the Mid-Atlantic region. | $20,533.00 |
| 2015 | Tillamook-Nestucca Fish Passage Partnership (OR) | Trout Unlimited, Inc. | The Tillamook-Nestucca subbasin consists of the five major rivers (Miami, Kilchis, Wilson, Trask and Tillamook)that drain into Tillamook Bay, Oregon, plus the neighboring Nestucca River watershed. | $98,600.00 |
| 2015 | Fall River Native Trout Population Monitoring and Assessment (CA) | California Trout, Inc. | Fall River Wild Trout Area - largest spring-fed native trout fishery in CA. From Pit River confluence to upper Bear Creek headwater tributaries, incl. Big Lake, Eastman Lake, Lava Creek & Spring Creek | $50,000.00 |
| 2015 | Chicago River Downtown Foundation Habitat Project (IL) | Friends of the Chicago River | The project location is the Main Stem which is a busy commercial and tourism hub alive with boats and barges flanked by roads and high rises. To the east the Chicago Lock accommodates boat traffic allowing regular fish passage. To the west is the confluence with the North Branch and South Branch. | $175,000.00 |
| 2015 | A Toolkit for Managing River Inputs to Coral Reefs (PR) | Villanova University | This study will focus on the rivers and associated tributaries of the Guánica watershed in southwest Puerto Rico and the adjacent coral reefs. | $125,019.47 |
| 2015 | Critical Next Steps: Amplifying Capacity and Investment (CA) | American Rivers, Inc. | Trainings will occur in the Feather and Truckee watersheds. Practitioners will be recruited from forests with limited meadow restoration capacity, principally south of Lake Tahoe. | $183,599.67 |
| 2015 | Oregon Coast Stewardship Project | Northwest Youth Corps | Project takes place at various locations on the Oregon coast, primarily between Astoria and Bandon. | $50,914.40 |
| 2015 | Portland Eastside Greening Project (OR) | Friends of Trees | This project takes place in East Portland neighborhoods that fall below 20% canopy cover, are 51% or more individuals at or below 80% medium income levels and are predominantly minority population neighborhoods. | $25,000.00 |