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 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 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