Collaborative Landscape Conservation (15.669)
Collaborative Landscape Conservation (Assistance Listing 15.669) is run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, part of the Department of the Interior. It awarded $374 million in 10 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $37.4 million per award on average. No funding opportunity is open on Grants.gov right now.
The typical award was $1.7 million. Half of the 10 awards fell between $865,917 and $63.0 million, and they ranged from $23,227 to $154 million.
- Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$374 million
- Grant awards10
- Typical award$1.7 million
- Awarded in FY 2025$58.8 million
- Size rank442 of 1,823
- Type of assistanceProject grants (discretionary)
Key findings
- It is the 442nd largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
- The 7 largest recipients received 100% of the money.
- Awards went to recipients in 5 states and territories.
What the program funds
The Collaborative Landscape Conservation program promotes an inclusive approach to conservation by convening and facilitating diverse partnerships to address shared conservation challenges and create a network of healthy lands and waters where fish, wildlife, plants, and people thrive. The program advances adaptive leadership in landscape conservation regionally and nationally by identifying shared priorities with states, tribes, private landowners, academic institutions, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) coordinating actions, and informing decision-making. We support research to improve strategic conservation at the landscape scale, including development of data-driven decision support capability that make collaborative conservation achievable and support resilient landscape design which considers wildlife and ecosystems as well as cultural, social, and economic priorities. We support building collaborative conservation and the co-production of science by increasing capacity and support to effectively engage partners, synthesize information, and produce strategic approaches for landscape conservation.
Open opportunities
No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.
Rules from the program listing
What the money can and cannot pay for
Support will be provided for cooperative landscape conservation projects to include: decision-support tools to inform management plans/decisions and ESA Recovery Plans, conservation delivery strategies and actions, and landscape-scale conservation strategies that can direct management expenditures where they have the greatest effect and lowest relative cost. This program is administered in compliance with the Federal Grants and Cooperative Agreements Act of 1977, as amended. These funds may not be used towards training U.S. Federal Government personnel, purchase of real property, or construction.
Matching requirements
This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.
Deadlines
Deadlines do not apply
Award range and average, in the agency's words
Average award amount varies by project type and duration.
Examples of funded projects
Fiscal Year2025: USFWS, BLM, NPS staff, as well as local U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), state, and private partners will conduct local and remote exercises to gather monitoring, refine treatment areas, ground-truth site visits to delineate remote survey, lay-out treatment unit boundaries by flagging and GPS, be on-site to oversee project activities, conduct project implementation, and certify the project meets the specifications and standards of the treatment. Treatments will be completed with the IDMTSCRL, targeting but not limited to projects within the Craters of the Moon Priority Area. Project selection will also use the the Sagebrush Conservation Design to prioritize projects within Core and Growth Opportunity. This project will deliver sagebrush steppe habitat restoration treatments to reduce ameliorate the following threats within treatments that include but are not limited to: • Invasive grass and noxious weed inventory and treatment • Diversification and rehabilitation of uplands via tractor-based and/or aerial seeding • Fuel break establishment • Post-wildfire restorationFiscal Year2026: Program has not yet selected projects for funding. Program anticipates funding projects that will enhance large landscape conservation across the nation.
Funding history and past recipients
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Collaborative Landscape Conservation (15.669) awarded $374 million across 10 grant awards, an average of $37.4 million per award.
| Recipient | State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Fish and Wildlife Foundation | District of Columbia | 4 | $369 million |
| The Kuskokwim Corporation | Alaska | 1 | $1.7 million |
| Native Village of Eagle | Alaska | 1 | $1.7 million |
| Nome Eskimo Community | Alaska | 1 | $1.7 million |
| Pheasants Forever, Inc. | Minnesota | 1 | $599,000 |
| University of California, Davis | California | 1 | $100,179 |
| Cherokee Nation | Oklahoma | 1 | $23,227 |
Who usually wins
Nonprofits received 99% of the money, tribes 1.3% and colleges and universities less than 0.1%.
| Recipient type | Awards | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nonprofits | 5 | $369 million | 99% |
| Tribal governments and organizations | 4 | $5.0 million | 1.3% |
| Colleges and universities | 1 | $64,644 | less than 0.1% |
By state
2 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards. They are District of Columbia and Alaska.
| State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 4 | $369 million |
| Alaska | 3 | $5.0 million |
| Minnesota | 1 | $599,000 |
| California | 1 | $97,790 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $23,227 |