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 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 Membership and Local Awareness Development and Growth (WI) Friends of the St. Croix Wetland Management District The Districts encompasses an 8 county area in Western WI, centered around Polk and St Croix Counties where the membership development areas will be concentrated. $0.00
2016 Upper Skagit Knotweed and Invasive Control Project Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group The project is located in the upper reaches of the Skagit River watershed in Washington State. Treatment work focuses on areas upstream of Rockport, including portions of Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom Counties. In 2017-18 survey work will be extended downstream 20 miles, past the town of Concrete. $90,399.96
2016 Improve Fish Passage for Salmonids in Manzanita Creek (CA) Northwest California Resource Conservation & Development Council Manzanita Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River, Big Bar, California $18,244.01
2016 Creation of a Southern St. Louis County Cooperative Weed Management Area (MN) Stewardship Network This project will take place in southern St Louis County in northeastern Minnesota encompassing the City of Duluth and St Louis Estuary, a gateway to Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters. $154,404.93
2016 Assessment of Sockeye Salmon Island Beach Spawning Populations in Iliamna Lake Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust Iliamna Lake Watershed (USGS Watershed # 19030206) in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska $51,200.00
2016 Evaluating the Ecological Effectiveness of Hurricane Sandy Marsh Restoration Projects (DE, NJ, VA) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Region 5 Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge (Delaware), Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (New Jersey), Cape May National Wildlife Refuge (New Jersey), and Great Dismal Swamp (Virginia) $2,780,632.89
2016 Russian River Watershed Flow Improvement Projects Trout Unlimited, Inc. Russian River watershed, Sonoma County, California, United States, North America $500,000.00
2016 Outdoor Volunteer and Community Engagement: Increasing volunteering where Southern Nevada needs it most (NV) Outside Las Vegas Foundation dba Get Outdoors Nevada Project will engage volunteers throughout Southern Nevada landscapes. $20,114.17