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 Building an Innovative Nature Exploration area at Horicon National Wildlife Refuge (WI) Friends of Horicon National Wildlife Refuge The project is located at the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, W4279 Headquarters Road, Mayville, WI 53050. It is located about 3.5 miles south of SH 49 on CTH Z. The Wonder Trail will begin inside the VC and progress across the parking lot to the 1/2 mile loop trail. $9,999.47
2015 Sound Actions: Celebrate Long Island Sound through Community Stewardship (CT) Sea Research Foundation, Inc. Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, Connecticut $9,979.79
2015 SOUNDoff Event! Creating Long Island Sound Stewards (NY) The Whaling Museum Society, Inc. Whaling Museum and Education Center, Cold Spring Harbor, New York $6,902.34
2015 Branching In Native Nursery Eastern Panhandle Planning and Development Council City of Charles Town, Jefferson County, eastern West Virginia $81,500.00
2015 Nutrient Incentive Payment– A Maryland Chesapeake Bay Pilot Program to Target Long-Term Nutrient Reduction/Ecological Services for Riparian Forest Buffers & Wetlands (MD) Maryland Department of Agriculture The NIP pilot targets the Nanticoke watershed and Frederick County. These are identified as top priority target areas for high nutrients from agricultural sources by USGS SPARROW model. These areas also coincide with the highly detailed targeting analyses being conducted by The Nature Conservancy fo $24,795.00
2015 Restoration of the `Alala or Hawaiian Crow to Hawaii Island Zoological Society of San Diego Initial releases will occur within the Pu`u Maka`ala Natural Area Reserve (NAR), a biologically diverse site on the Big Island of Hawaii, and currently habitat for 15 endangered plants and an additional six endangered bird species. $186,875.00
2015 Launching Monarch Butterfly Recovery in the Central Flyway through Urban Outreach (TX,OK,AR,KS,MO,NE,IA,IL,IN,SD,ND, MN,WI,MI) National Wildlife Federation 14 central flyway states $100,000.00
2015 Demography of Black-footed and Laysan Albatross (HI) Colorado State University The focus of the project is on the albatross populations on Midway Atoll, Tern Island (French Frigate Shoals), and Laysan Island. All of these are in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. We will also apply the same methods to data collected on a smaller population on the island of Kauai. $39,000.00
2015 Delaware River Watershed Working Lands Conservation and Protection Partnership Implementation in New Jersey Highlands Watersheds (NJ) North Jersey RC&D Area Inc. The area lies in northwestern NJ, is made up of five major subwatersheds of the Delaware River: Paulins Kill, Pequest River, Musconetcong River, and Lopatcong and Pohatcong Creeks. The land within all these watersheds on the New Jersey side falls in Sussex, Warren, Morris and Hunterdon Counties. $227,523.94
2015 Space to Grow: Greening Chicago Schoolyards - II Chicago Public Schools, District 299 Three Chicago Public Schools: Corkery Elementary (2510 South Kildare Avenue, Chicago, IL 60623), Gunsaulus Elementary (4420 South Sacramento Avenue, Chicago, IL 60632), and Westcott Elementary (409 West 80th Street, Chicago, IL 60620). $300,000.00