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 Friends of Outer Island Capacity Building (CT) Friends of Outer Island, Inc. Outer Island, located in the Thimble Islands of Branford, CT a Unit of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge USFWS is 3 miles off shore in LI Sound and is reached by water taxi or kayak. $5,000.00
2012 Columbia Cascade Water Transaction Strategy (WA) - VII Trout Unlimited, Inc. Central and Eastern Washington: Columbia Cascade - Methow, Entiat, Wenatchee, Yakima and Snake sub-basins. $204,915.84
2012 Spring Creek Bank Stabilization and Riparian Restoration (PA) Spring Creek Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Inc. The Spring Creek watershed in Centre County, Pennsylvania. $69,798.54
2012 Early Detection Rapid Response in Teton and Gros Ventre Wilderness (WY) U.S. Forest Service Two Wilderness areas on the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Teton Wilderness is on the south boundary of Yellowstone National Park, Gros Ventre is east of Jackson, WY. $9,500.00
2012 Muddy Creek Agricultural Stewardship and Water Quality Monitoring (VA) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The Muddy Creek and Shenandoah River watersheds in Rockingham County, Virginia. $132,815.00
2012 Long-term Conservation of Traditional Cherokee Plants (NC) The North Carolina Arboretum Society Temperate deciduous mixed forests, including the spruce-fir and mesic coves of the Nantahala National Forest along with the Hall Mountain Track in Macon County,NC if purchased by the EBCI and USFS. $35,000.00
2012 Imaging Sonar Run Counts of River Herring in Chesapeake Bay Smithsonian Institution We propose to work in two NFWF priority streams including Patuxent River (Middle Bay), Mattawoman Creek (Lower Potomac), Nanticoke River (Lower Eastern Shore), Choptank River (Upper Eastern Shore). $202,533.00
2012 Lake Erie Bluffs Preservation (OH) Lake Metroparks This project is located in Perry Township, Ohio in Lake County situated along Lake Erie. It includes the acquisition of portions of up to two parcels totaling 89 acres with 4,400 feet of coast. $300,000.00
2012 Meeting Golden-winged Warbler Keystone Habitat Goals (PA) American Bird Conservancy Golden-winged Warbler Focal Areas in Western, Central and South Pennsylvania. This work complements other GWWA work on PA public lands, throughout the Appalachians and Great Lake GWWA focal areas. $125,000.00
2012 Community-based Conservation Workshop and Mentorship (MT) The Blackfoot Challenge, Inc. Communities in the Blackfoot Watershed, priority conservation watersheds in Montana and High Divide, and the 5 America’s Great Outdoors national priority landscape-scale conservation areas. $89,562.75