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 Hempstead Harbor 2015 Water Quality Monitoring Program (NY) - IX Incorporated Village of Sea Cliff, New York Hempstead Harbor, Nassau County, New York $45,000.00
2015 Sinnemahoning-Portage Creek and Potomac River Unassessed Waters Sampling (PA) Western Pennsylvania Conservancy At least 75 electrofishing surveys will be completed using the PFBC approved protocol in the Sinnemahoning-Portage Creek watershed (Potter, Cameron, and McKean counties) and Evitts, Willis, and Pigeonroost Creeks in (Somerset and Bedford counties). $21,000.00
2015 Texas Environmental Flows Initiative Ecological Benefit Analysis of Candidate Water Rights Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi Trinity Bay/Galveston Bay Systems, Tres Palacios/Carancahua Bay Systems, Guadalupe River/San Antonio Bay Systems, all located on the Texas Gulf Coast. $520,666.80
2015 Electronic Monitoring for New England’s Groundfish Fishery The Nature Conservancy Coastal New England from Maine to Massachusetts including the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank and Southern New England.

$290,082.43
2015 Gulf of Mexico Bird Monitoring Framework Mississippi State University See uploaded shapefile. The work proposed here utilizes the RESTORE boundary of coastal management zones plus 25miles for the five coastal States (TX,LA,MS,AL,FL) plus the marine bird conservation region out to the EEZ line. $216,107.53
2015 Mapping Abundance and Estimating Population Size of Bicknell's Thrush (ME,NH,VT) Vermont Center for Ecostudies, Inc. The project will take place in high-elevation forests in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont at locations within the sampling frame for the Mountain Birdwatch population-monitoring program. $67,224.67
2015 Getting Conservation on the Ground - Outreach and Assistance For Limited Resource Landowners in the Connecticut River Watershed (MA,NH,VT) Connecticut River Watershed Council dba Connecticut River Conservancy Subwatersheds within the Connecticut River watershed (see map for details). $64,540.00
2015 Lost Creek Restoration Initiative: A Watershed Wide Community Collaboration Uniting Plain-Sect Populations, Golf Gurus, and Local Leaders in an Effort to Extend Eastern Brook Trout Range (PA) Juniata County Conservation District The Project will take place entirely in the Lost Creek Watershed in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. The watershed is located within Fermanagh and Fayette Townships, and includes McAllisterville, a Census-Designated Place with a population of 971 in 2010, as well as several other small villages. $199,612.66
2015 Riverwise Congregations (MD) The Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy, Inc. Anne Arundel County Maryland mega-congregations $199,405.50
2015 Healthy Yards, Living Waters, Healthy People: Learning How to Protect your Local Streams by Improving your Back Yard (VA) Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. This project is located in the James River Watershed in the City of Richmond and the counties served by Thomas Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District (primarily Charlottesville, though Albemarle, Fluvanna, Louisa, Nelson counties will also be served.) $199,528.56