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 Using Incentives to Advance Electronic Monitoring in the New England Groundfish Fishery (MA, ME) Gulf of Maine Research Institute Gloucester and Boston, Massachusetts; Portland, Maine $596,492.83
2016 Providing Technical Assistance to Anne Arundel Department of Public Works to assess feasibility of a denitrifying bioreactor to treat a community septic system (MD) Ridge to Reefs, Inc. The project will be located in Anne Arundel County, MD. We plan to provide technical service to Anne Arundel DPW and conduct a feasibility analysis about a project within the Bodkin Creek watershed and perhaps another in the Patuxent River drainage. $49,838.75
2016 Empower Trail Volunteers at Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (ME) Friends of Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge The project is located at the 2003 Refuge of the Century award winner Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Milford Maine, USA. This rural refuge protects Maine's third largest bog dome system and serves mostly rural low income communities. $0.00
2016 Upper Green River Native Fish Initiative (WY) Trout Unlimited, Inc. Green River Drainage Basin in Southwest Wyoming $94,971.11
2016 Candy Abshier Wildlife Management Area Shoreline Protection and Marsh Restoration (TX) GCCGP Texas Parks and Wildlife Department The project is located in Smith Point, Chambers County, Texas. The site is located approximately 1,750 feet east of the end of Farm to Market Road 562 within East Bay (N 29° 31’ 33.85”, W 94° 45’ 58.41”). $250,000.00
2016 Eradication of Moroccan Knapweed (CA) California Invasive Plant Council The main project site is in the desert around Borrego Springs, California, in eastern San Diego County. There are three smaller secondary sites: one in western San Diego County in Chula Vista, and two in western Orange County in Newport Beach. Scouting will include neighboring areas. $105,515.52
2016 Using natural water storage solutions to improve flows in the Missouri Headwaters Basin The Nature Conservancy The project will occur across the Upper Missouri Headwaters of southwest Montana. The region encompasses seven-million acres of private, state, and federal lands and is defined by the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin watersheds. $159,250.00
2016 Removing the Eklutna River Dam to Restore Salmon and Dena’ina Culture The Conservation Fund, A Nonprofit Corporation Eklutna River, Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska $181,700.00
2016 Student Conservation Association Youth Conservation Corps crew at Virgin Islands National Park (VI) The Student Conservation Association, Inc. Virgin Islands National Park $71,131.50
2016 Locating Semnant Newell's Shearwater Colonies in Oahu (HI) Pacific Rim Conservation The Waianae and Koolau mountain ranges of Oahu, Hawaii. $66,524.00