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
2016 Caddo Lake NWR Walking Trail, Bird Blind and E-Bird Kiosk Friends of the Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Harrison County, Karnack Texas. (approximately 13.75 miles from Karnack.) The site of the refuge was a part of the territory of the Caddo nation, native Americans whose powerful confederacy dominated the Red River and Big Cypress wetlands. $9,882.54
2016 Building Capacity for Monarch Recovery Among Electric Utilities (IA, IL, MN, WI) Sand County Foundation, Inc. Monarch summer breeding territory in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, including vacant land surrounding electric power generation stations and infrastructure, and agricultural lands within electric transmission and gas pipeline rights-of-way. $98,765.31
2016 Monarch Butterfly Conservation in the Mexico Migratory Route PRONATURA NORESTE A.C. All aspects of this project will take place on public and private lands located in the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí in México. $49,846.32
2016 Pre-Implementation of Electronic Monitoring for Alaska’s Pot Cod Fishery Saltwater Inc. Anchorage, Alaska; Fishing grounds in the Gulf of Alaska Western and Central Regulatory Areas, and the Bering Sea $620,036.29
2016 Using Pronghorn to Design and Apply a Multi-Species Approach for Conserving Connectivity in the Northern Great Plains (MT, AB) Alberta Conservation Association The project will occur in grasslands of MT and AB. The fence modification evaluation will occur at TNC’s Matador Ranch (MT) and at CFB Suffield (AB). Fence modification efforts will occur on targeted TNC Matador Ranch and grassbank member’s land in MT and target deeded/grazing land in AB. $156,223.46
2016 Protecting Working Hardwood Forestland and Bat Habitat in Skinner Mountain Forest (TN) The Conservation Fund, A Nonprofit Corporation Fentress and Overton Counties, northern Tennessee $500,000.00
2016 Nebraska Sandhills Landscape Conservation: A Public Private Partnership Nebraska Community Foundation FBO Rainwater Basin Joint Venture Nebraska’s Sandhills are a 19,300 square-mile sand dune formation located in the north-central portion of the state. This landscape contains abundant lakes, wetlands, wet meadows, and spring-fed streams scattered across the largest contiguous grass-stabilized dune system in North America. $149,040.00
2016 Assess Persistent Organic Pollutant Transfer from Female Killer Whales to their Calves (CA, TX, WA) NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center SeaWorld San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas and NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, WA. $114,456.97
2016 Understand the Effects of Reduced Prey and High Contaminant Levels on Killer Whales (WA, BC) Ocean Wise Conservation Association Biopsy sample collection: Salish Sea in-land waters in Canada and the United States
Gene expression and contaminant analysis: Vancouver, British Columbia
$91,277.35
2016 Native Sagebrush Steppe Restoration at Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Friends of Deer Flat Wildlife Refuge Dear Flat National Wildlife Refuge, Canyon County, Idaho $2,061.00