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 Beyond the Tipping Point; Transforming an Underserved Community into Resource Stewards through Diffusion Innovation Lancaster Farmland Trust This project will take place in the following municipalities in Eastern Lancaster County, PA: East Earl Township, Terre Hill Borough and New Holland Borough. $187,661.82
2016 Water Quality Monitoring Initiative for Long Island Sound Embayments (NY) Save the Sound, Inc. Mamaroneck Harbor and Manhasset Bay, New York. $87,603.96
2016 River Smart Community Stormwater Education in the Farmington River Watershed (CT) Farmington River Watershed Association, Inc. Towns on the Pequabuck and Still Rivers such as Simsbury, Farmington, Avon, Barkhamsted, Winsted, and Bristol, CT $31,151.21
2016 Using eDNA Technology to Detect Eastern Hellbender Populations in Prioritized Watersheds of Pennsylvania Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Twenty-five larger order streams across Pennsylvania. $23,271.12
2016 American YouthWorks and US Forest Service Collaboration for Gulf Habitat Restoration (TX, LA) American YouthWorks The projects will take place in: the Winn Ranger District of Kisatchie National Forest (Winn Parish, Louisiana), the LBJ National Grasslands (Wise County, Texas) and the Caddo National Grasslands (Fannin County, Texas). $250,000.00
2016 Engaging Student Scientists for Long Island Sound (CT) - III Earthplace - The Nature Discovery Center, Inc. Fairfield County, Connecticut $32,822.38
2016 Increased Participation in Stormwater Management Programs- Behavior Change through Social Marketing in Aspen Hill, MD Rock Creek Conservancy We will be working in the community of Aspen Hill in Montgomery County, Maryland. $76,024.68
2016 Los Padres Forest Restoration Project The Student Conservation Association, Inc. The proposed project area is on Frazier Mountain, and is located south of Lockwood Valley Road and Frazier Mountain Park Road and within the Mount Pinos Ranger District of the Los Padres National Forest. The nearest town is Frazier Park. The project area is within both Ventura and Kern Counties. $320,234.15
2016 Prioritizing Obstructions to Trout Movement in the Upper Rappahannock River Watershed (VA) Ecosystem Services, LLC This project is located in Rappahannock County, Virginia within the Rapidan - Upper Rappahannock Watershed (02080103). The proposed fish blockage removal and stream restoration projects are located along Bolton Branch, a class II coldwater stream, where is crosses Mill Hill Road, in Huntly, Virginia $49,516.52
2016 Bear Wallow Creek Fish Barrier Modification and Apache Trout Monitoring (AZ) Arizona Game and Fish Department Bear Wallow Creek is a 10.5 mile tributary to the Black River in Greenlee County, Arizona. The fish barrier to be modified is on the San Carlos Apache Reservation, approximately 0.75 miles upstream from the confluence with the Black River. $90,168.50