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
2015 Establishing New Populations of Endangered Species at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (HI) American Bird Conservancy Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, Kaua‘i Island, Hawai‘i, USA $230,916.91
2015 Aerial Surveys for Shorebirds along the Atlantic Flyway New Jersey Audubon Society Coastlines, intertidal zones and coastal estuaries Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Brazil. $49,990.57
2015 Restoring Previously Mined Private Lands in the Cumberland Plateau (KY,TN) University of Kentucky Research Foundation The KY site is located in southern Pike Co. near the town of Dorton and is currently owned by the Big Sandy Company. The TN site is on private property in Campbell Co. that is managed by the Molpus Woodlands Group, and is located in an area that is considered a high priority habitat by Tennessee Wil $146,480.85
2015 Collaborating Within the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship to Establish Monarch Habitats (IA) Pathfinders Resource Conservation and Development This project is statewide throughout the state of Iowa. $227,370.04
2015 Examining the Bottlenecks for Hard-Shell Clam Production and Developing Innovative Strategies for Assisting with their Recovery in South Central Alaska Chugach Regional Resources Commission The project is located in Kachemak Bay south-central Alaska. The communities of Seldovia and Port Graham have conducted clam surveys and projects in the past and have baseline data for density and distribution prior to the recent crash in stocks. $78,200.00
2015 Advancing Landscape-level Wildlife Conservation in the High Divide through Strategic Private Land Protection (MT) The Nature Conservancy The project is located within the mountainous Sweetwater-Blacktail/Sage Creek Landscape west and south of Dillon, Montana in Beaverhead County $250,000.00
2015 Coastal Georgia Invasive Species Regional Management Initiative (GA) Georgia Department of Natural Resources The 11 first and second tier counties of coastal Georgia (Camden, Glynn, McIntosh, Liberty, Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Long, Wayne, Brantley, Camden). $49,553.86
2015 Brook Trout Habitat Restoration and Reconnection in the Upper Connecticut River Watershed (NH, VT) Trout Unlimited, Inc. The Upper Connecticut Home Rivers Initiative is a multi-year, on-the-ground restoration initiative in northern NH and VT. $86,000.00
2015 Retaining Stormwater: Green Infrastructure Practices for the City of Wilkes-Barre, PA LandStudies The project area is located at targeted locations within the City of Wilkes-Barre, PA. The project targets urban streets and an urban bioretention area. The project area is within the Susquehanna River watershed which drains into the Chesapeake Bay. $39,662.58
2015 Salmon River Mine-Tailing Restoration and Coho Refuge (CA) Salmon River Restoration Council Northwestern California, Salmon River, Siskiyou County, CA -from Nordhiemer Creek (elev. 1,020 ft) upstream to Wilderness Area Boundaries at Russian Creek on the North Fork (2,590 ft) and to Rush Creek on the South Fork (2,860 ft) for a total of 53 river miles. $47,497.00