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
2012 Beaubien Woods Habitat Enhancement (IL) Field Museum of Natural History This project location is Beaubien Woods, owned and managed by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, located at approximately 134th Street and the Bishop Ford Expressway (1-94) in Chicago, IL. $50,000.00
2012 Restoring Sonoran Sky Island Grasslands and Embedded Cienega (AZ) Cuenca de los Ojos, A.C. San Bernardino Valley in Sonora, Mexico immediately south
and adjacent to the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge; Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona.
$125,000.00
2012 Assessing Potential Bycatch Hotspots for Caribbean Hawksbill Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan A.C. The Yucatan peninsula harbors the largest hawksbill populations in the Atlantic. More than 10,000 artisanal fishing boats use different fishing gears, competing for same marine grounds with hawksbills $144,917.18
2012 Evaluating Avian Use of Restored Desert Grasslands Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory dba Bird Conservancy of the Rockies West Texas, northwestern Coahuila, southern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, and northeastern Sonora. $157,412.29
2012 Forest Aid: Angeles National Forest 2012 TreePeople, Inc. Project site will be within an 11,000-acre area prescribed as part of the Station Fire Restoration Strategy, inside the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California. $25,000.00
2012 Gunnison Sage-grouse Conservation (UT) The Nature Conservancy Located four miles northeast of Monticello, Utah in San Juan County the project is within the core area of occupied habitat; a region that supports Utah’s only population of Gunnison sage-grouse. $270,050.00
2012 Lesser Prairie Chicken Technical Assistance (NM) New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts Eastern New Mexico located in Lea, Eddy, Roosevelt,Curry & Chaves Counties which are the primary habitat for Lesser Prairie Chicken and Dune Sands Lizard $971,372.93
2012 River Herring Restoration in Penobscot River (ME) Penobscot River Restoration Trust Lower Penobscot Watershed, Veazie, Maine, USA
Maine Congressional Dist 2
Gulf of Maine
$300,000.00
2012 Enhancing Necropsy Capacity for Unusual Mortality Events (LA) Audubon Nature Institute, Inc. Provide response for Louisiana coastline and estuarine areas, including Grand Isle and Port Fourchon beaches as well as Lakes Ponchartrain and Borgne. $66,161.31
2012 Simplifying New England Groundfish Sector Reporting Northeast Sector Service Network, Inc. This project will work with Northeast Fishery Sectors who’s membership includes vessels that are primarily home-ported in Maine; New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Rhode Island and New York. $7,522.76