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 River Herring Spawning Run Monitoring in Chesapeake Bay - II (VA,MD) Smithsonian Institution Choptank, Patapsco, Northeast, Patuxent, Nanticoke, and Lower James Rivers in the Maryland and Virginia portions of the Chesapeake Bay watershed $293,977.98
2015 Southernmost Monarch Waystations (TX) North American Butterfly Association All aspects of this project will take place on public and private lands located in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, in areas within US Congressional Districts 15, 28 and 34. $199,271.00
2015 Envision the Choptank: Phase One Chesapeake Conservancy, INC. The project will address the Choptank River watershed on the Delmarva peninsula. This watershed includes portions of Maryland and Delaware and contains critical habitat for striped bass, herring, and oysters. NOAA has designated the Choptank watershed a Habitat Focus Area. $315,766.23
2015 Delaware River Watershed Working Lands Conservation and Protection Partnership Implementation in Chester County (PA) Chester County Conservation District Agricultural operations within Delaware River watershed portion of Chester County. $494,333.81
2015 Northern and Southern Resident Killer Whales: Research on the Impacts of Seasonal Prey Availability and Contaminants on Body Condition (WA/ BC, Canada) Ocean Wise Conservation Association British Columbia and Washington State. Including waters from Johnstone Strait to Calvert Island and throughout the Salish Sea (including the San Juan and Canadian Gulf Islands). $252,924.99
2015 Texas Playa Restoration Initiative (TX) Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Castro and Floyd Counties, Texas $71,644.04
2015 Conserving "Salter" Brook Trout in the Northeastern United States (VA) Trout Unlimited, Inc. Project activities occur in the coastal areas of the Northeastern US that have historically supported brook trout populations. $74,971.00
2015 Building a Broader Base for Brook Trout: A Film Package to Communicate the Nature, Value, and Conservation Needs of Eastern Brook Trout Freshwaters Illustrated This project will focus on the states of the Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture, but will also be disseminated nationally. $48,223.00
2014 Sustainable Agricultural Practices Upstream of Des Moines (IA) The Nature Conservancy The Des Moines River Watershed stretches from southwest Minnesota to southeast Iowa, encompassing the Boone River Watershed in parts of six north central Iowa counties upstream of Des Moines. $97,445.25
2014 Preventing Erosion and Restoring Hydrology in the Pine Barrens (NJ) New Jersey Conservation Foundation Burlington County and Ocean County, New Jersey $280,000.00