NFWF Awarded $50,000 from Amazon Web Services (AWS) 2025 IMAGINE Grant

Washington, D.C. (December 2, 2025) – Since its creation by Congress in 1984, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has grown to become the largest conservation foundation in the United States. For more than 40 years, NFWF has played an essential role at the center of the nation’s wildlife conservation community. 

Now AWS has selected NFWF as a winner of the 2025 AWS IMAGINE Grant, a public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom who are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.

As a winner in the Momentum to Modernize category, which recognizes highly innovative projects using advanced cloud services, NFWF will receive support from AWS to accelerate the modernization of its databases and systems management. These rapid improvements will help one of the nation’s most important and largest wildlife conservation foundations transform 40 years of knowledge and data into an accessible repository of conservation knowledge for NFWF staff and the conservation community, at large.

“Funding and organizational bandwidth for wildlife conservation are relatively rare and precious resources,” said Jeff Trandahl, executive director and chief executive officer at NFWF. “Rapid technological advances at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will enable us to analyze and leverage four decades worth of conservation data in new and exciting ways. 

“This AWS IMAGINE Grant will strengthen our ability to focus investments on conservation projects and practices that generate the greatest possible benefits to both wildlife and people.”

NFWF uses public funding as a springboard to raise private-sector contributions for wildlife conservation, then invests those funds through its industry-leading competitive grant-making processes. Through rigorous analysis of conservation projects and a focus on measurable results, the Foundation has helped advance the science and practice of wildlife conservation across the United States.

Technological advancement achieved through the AWS IMAGINE Grant are expected to greatly increase NFWF’s ability to:

• Extract valuable insights from the Foundation’s unique collection of historical data related to wildlife conservation practices 
• Expand and contextualize evaluations of past grant awards and conservation practices in innovative ways, thereby improving the ability to identify trends, measure outcomes, predict potential benefits of future investments and optimize conservation strategies
• Review new proposals for conformance to solicitation guidelines and strategic directives
• Explore seemingly limitless opportunities to correlate and assess data across geographies, conservation practices and wildlife classifications    

About the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) works with partners to foster sustainable and impactful conservation solutions so that people and nature thrive together. Chartered by Congress in 1984, NFWF has grown to become the nation’s largest conservation foundation. Since its founding, NFWF has funded more than 23,300 projects that have generated a total conservation impact of more than $11.3 billion. Learn more at nfwf.org.

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Contact: 

Matt Winter, 202-857-0166, matt.winter@nfwf.org