Grantee Database

This database contains a representative list of grants approved since 2004. Grants appear alphabetically by organization name, with most recent grants first. Unless otherwise specified, grants are for general operating support.
185 results found

Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation

Metairie LA

for community engagement and planning

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $105,000

to promote integrated restoration and storm protection in coastal Louisiana

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $320,000

to promote integrated restoration and storm protection in coastal Louisiana

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $240,000

to support ongoing work to develop plans and implement strategies for coastal restoration and storm protection in Louisiana

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $220,000

Land Stewardship Project

Minneapolis MN

To engage farmers in increased conservation efforts through effective implementation of the new Farm Bill

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $130,000

to promote federal agricultural policies that conserve farmland and protect water quality

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $130,000

to promote federal agricultural policies that protect water quality

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $150,000

for federal farm policy reform and implementation affecting the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $240,000

Land Trust Alliance

Washington DC

to strengthen the conservation impact of land trusts along the upper stem of the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $100,000

Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation

Hackensack MN

for planning to protect lands in the headwaters of the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $30,000

Lewis and Clark Community College

Godfrey IL

for a National Great River Research and Education Center program to monitor the quality of Illinois rivers and streams

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $50,000

for the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center's water quality monitoring efforts in Illinois

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $50,000

Living Lands & Waters

East Moline IL

for river restoration efforts

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $50,000

for river restoration efforts

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $25,000

Louisiana Environmental Action Network

Baton Rouge LA

for the air toxins project and for the Mississippi Riverkeeper Project

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $107,500

to strengthen efforts to improve water quality in the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $405,000

to strengthen efforts to improve water quality in the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $178,000

to support the Louisiana Waterkeeper Collaborative

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $200,000

to protect rivers and wetlands in Louisiana

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $158,000

to support the Louisiana Waterkeeper Collaborative

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $150,000

to investigate and document pollution to the Mississippi River and to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands and wildlife, including ongoing effects from BP oil spill

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $140,000

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge LA

to support restoration and recovery in Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $300,000

to promote integrated coastal protection and restoration within the Mississippi deltaic environment plain

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $122,233

Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee

Vicksburg MS

to increase restoration planning capacity

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $50,000

M & M Divide Resource Conservation and Development, Inc.

Carroll IA

for conservation outreach to absentee farmland owners

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $68,000

Meridian Institute

Dillon CO

to support the AGree initiative

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $220,000

Metro Blooms

Minneapolis MN

to promote pollution-preventing landscaping in the Twin Cities metro area

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $35,000

to promote pollution-reducing landscaping in the Twin Cities metro area

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $80,000

for an organization that promotes pollution-reducing landscaping in the Twin Cities metro area

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $40,000

Metropolitan Planning Council

Chicago IL

to reduce water pollution from urban areas

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $100,000

Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, Inc.

East Troy WI

to support effective implementation of conservation programs in federal farm policy

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $180,000

to promote federal agricultural conservation policies

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $180,000

for outreach on federal and state conservation programming and enforcement

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $150,000

for organizing work to support federal and state conservation programming and enforcement

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $140,000

Midwest Environmental Advocates, Inc.

Madison WI

For a campaign to implement and enforce the Clean Water Act

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $80,000

to strengthen efforts to improve water quality in the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $290,000

to strengthen efforts to improve water quality in the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $268,000

to strengthen efforts to improve water quality and resilience of the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $278,000

to support participation in the Mississippi River Collaborative, and to strengthen efforts to reduce polluted runoff from agriculture and protect Wisconsin's wetlands

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $288,000