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 Advancing American Oystercatcher Conservation in Virginia The Nature Conservancy Barrier islands of Virginia, Accomack and Northampton Counties. $149,849.96
2012 Biloxi Bay Oyster Habitat Restoration (MS) The Nature Conservancy Biloxi Bay Estuary, east Harrison County, Mississippi(N30 25' 2.5", W88 51' 53.1). Subtidal land owned and managed by the State of Mississippi, site is northeast of the city of Biloxi. $122,477.09
2012 Sabine Lake Oyster Reef Restoration and Enhancement (TX) Texas Parks and Wildlife Department The project is located in Sabine Lake, an small (90,000 acre)estuary shared by both Texas and Louisiana. The actual project area is located offshore of the southern end of Pleasure Island. $525,000.00
2012 Tenderfoot Lands Protection (MT) Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation This project is located in the Tenderfoot Creek drainage of the Smith River Watershed in the Lewis and Clark National Forest in Meagher County Montana. $50,000.00
2012 Nickel Preserve Stewardship for Migratory Birds (OK) The Nature Conservancy In Cherokee County, Oklahoma, a part of The Nature Conservancy's Nickel Preserve, which is the largest privately protected conservation area anywhere in the rapidly fragmenting Ozarks. $100,000.00
2012 Hawksbill Conservation in Estero Padre Ramos, Nicaragua Wild Earth Allies Estero Padre Ramos is an estuary located on the Pacific Coast in Northwest Nicaragua. The primary hawksbill nesting areas (Venecia & Isla Tigra) are located north of the mouth of the estuary $74,984.00
2012 Sierra Nevada Meadow Community Clearinghouse (CA) University of California, Davis Throughout the Sierra Nevada, but based at the Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis. $125,000.00
2012 Build Local Capacity for Community Reef Fisheries Monitoring in Indonesia Conservation International Foundation The project will be implemented in three MPAs within the Bird’s Head Seascape, in West Papua, Indonesia—the Kaimana, Kofiau, and Ayau MPAs. $29,999.70
2012 Bycatch Avoidance Network for River Herring/Butterfish (NY) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County This project will take place in NY, RI, and NJ with vessels fishing in the offshore Loligo squid fishery. The fishing areas are in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of these 3 states. $99,932.29
2012 Hermosa Colorado River Cutthroat Trout Re-establishment (CO) U.S. Forest Service La Plata and San Juan Counties, southwest Colorado $56,000.00