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
2024 Engaging Southern Lake Erie Community on Development of a Coastal Resilience Plan (OH) Conneaut Port Authority The proposed project area is located along approximately 3 miles of southern shore of Lake Erie, from the PA border extending west to approximately North Hill Drive in the city of Conneaut, OH in Ashtabula County. $356,990.00
2023 Community-Driven Planning to Advance Equitable Nature Based Resilience Solutions (CA) Coastal Quest San Francisco, Bay Area of California $629,713.27
2023 Designing Living Shorelines to Protect Critical Infrastructure and Estuarine Habitat (NC) North Carolina Coastal Federation, Inc. Marine Corps Air Station New River and Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina $510,600.92
2023 Improving the Pathway for Beneficial Use Dredged Materials to aid in Coastal Resiliency (GA, NC, SC) Manomet, Inc. Coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia $172,492.28
2023 Designing Wetland Habitat Structures to Revitalize Milwaukee's Harbor (WI) Harbor District Inc. Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin $455,817.31
2023 Living Shoreline Planning to Improve Resilience in Montauk (NY) Town of East Hampton Lake Montauk is the largest surface waterbody in Town and Fort Pond is the second largest freshwater pond on LI. They are critical sensitive areas identified in the Town's Coastal Resilience Plan as locations where breaching can occur in major storms impacting commercial and residential districts. $350,000.00
2023 Developing the East River Resilience Collaborative for Nature-Based, Community-Driven Solutions (WI) The Nature Conservancy The East River Watershed, located in northeast Wisconsin, is a coastal tributary to Green Bay, Lake Michigan covering 13 municipalities and three counties (Brown, Manitowoc, Calumet). It is characterized by agriculture and urban land use, critical fish and wildlife habitat, and coastal flooding. $199,810.71
2023 Advancing Oyster Restoration with Shellfish Growers in New England, Mid-Atlantic and West Coast (VA) The Nature Conservancy Newmarket, New Hampshire; Bourne, Edgartown, and Fairhaven, Massachusetts; Brookhaven, Oyster Bay, and Southampton, New York; Heislerville and Middletown, New Jersey; Chester and Claibourne, Maryland;Silverdale and Squaxin Island Reservation, Washington;Elkhorn and Inverness, California $2,999,514.19
2023 Restoring Dunes to Protect the City of South Padre Island from Storm Surge and Sea-Level Rise (TX) The City of South Padre Island South Padre Island, Texas $200,000.00
2023 East Barataria Basin Marsh Terracing to Enhance Community Resilience (LA) Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Pointe a la Hache, Diamond, and Grand Bayou Village, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana $4,805,456.46