Partners for Fish and Wildlife (PFW) Program - FY 2025
| Agency: | U.S. Department of Interior |
|---|---|
| CFDA: | 15.631 |
| Federal FON: | F25AS00165 |
| Office: | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) |
| Multipart Grant: | No |
| Next Due: | Rolling |
|---|---|
| Solicitation Date: | 01/23/2025 |
| Match Required: | No |
| Actual Funds: | $15,000,000 (Estimated) |
| Award Range: | $750,000 (Max) |
| Number of Awards: | 500 (Estimated) |
Summary:
The purpose of this program is to restore and conserve fish and wildlife habitat for the benefit of federal trust resources by providing direct technical and financial assistance to private landowners. Award recipients will receive assistance from program staff on where to direct resources for conserving important habitats for federal trust species. The program focuses on increasing biological diversity and projects based on sound scientific principles.
The program has the following goals:
- Species conservation: habitat projects in specific areas to help protect species at risk, including federally listed species, birds of conservation concern, pollinators, and interjurisdictional fish
- Habitat connectivity: connecting habitats to make them better for wildlife, as well as supporting other conservation efforts like National Wildlife Refuges and other protected lands
- Resilient ecosystems: making ecosystems healthier and more resilient for fish, wildlife, plans, and people
Eligibility Notes:
Eligible applicants include:
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public, state-controlled, and private institutions of higher education
- Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
- Public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations
- Nonprofit organizations with and without 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
- For-profit organizations
- Small businesses
Projects must be implemented on private lands, meaning land lands not owned by a state or the federal government. Private lands may include tribal, Hawaiian homeland, city, municipality, non-governmental, and private properties.
Tribes may required to submit a tribal resolution for the project.
Eligible Applicants:
Local GovernmentAcademic Institutions
Native American Tribe
Non Profits
Other
Private Sector
Schools/School Districts
State Government
Tribal Organizations/Institutions
Application Notes:
Prior to submitting applications, applicants seeking financial or technical assistance from the program must contact their local PFW program office, listed online at www.fws.gov.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until 11:59 p.m. ET on May 30, 2025. Applications received after May 30, 2025, may not be awarded until the following fiscal year.
Applications must be submitted online at www.grantsolutions.gov.
Applications must include:
- SF 424
- SF 424A or SF 424C (as applicable)
- SF 429 (if applicable)
- SF LLL (if applicable)
- Project abstract summary
- Project narrative (3 pages max; in addition to 2 pages max for maps/photos)
- Budget narrative
- Indirect cost rate agreement (if applicable)
- Conflict of interest and unresolved matters disclosure (if applicable)
- Overlap or duplication of effort statement
The following are required in order to submit an application:
- Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
- SAM (System for Award Management) registration
Applicants may obtain a UEI number and verify or renew SAM registration status at www.ecivis.com/sam.
Applications will be evaluated using the following criteria:
- Contributions toward the funding agency's strategic plan goals
- Benefits to species
- Restoration of ecological integrity
- Implementing priority actions/conservation strategies
- Supporting the objectives of other funding agency plans and programs
- Use of biologically sound and cost-effective techniques
- Improvement to the capacity to achieve program goals and/or leverage nonfederal funding partners
- Promotion of habitat conservation and stewardship on private lands
- Broadening public understanding
Refer to pages 11-12 of the NOFA file for additional information regarding application evaluation criteria..
Refer to the NOFA file for additional application information.
| Match Required: | No |
|---|---|
| Actual Funds: | $15,000,000 (Estimated) |
| Award Range: | $750,000 (Max) |
|---|---|
| Number of Awards: | 500 (Estimated) |
Match Notes:
Matching funds are not required for this program; however, any nonfederal contributions must be detailed in the application.
Funding Notes:
An estimated $15 million is available to support an expected 500 grants or cooperative agreements of up to $750,000 through this program.
Project periods are anticipated to start on January 1, 2025, and end on September 30, 2029.
Funds may not be used for:
- Land acquisition
- Foreign travel
- Pre-award costs
- Unauthorized equipment
- Projects that do not align with the regional strategic implementation plans or program priorities
- Projects that generate compensatory mitigation credits under a federal or state regulatory program or accept mitigation or in-lieu funds as nonfederal cost share for a project
Contacts:
Andreas Moshogianis
andreas_moshogianis@fws.gov
Agency Address
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20240
Contact Notes:
Questions should be directed to Andreas Moshogianis.
Applications must be submitted online at www.grantsolutions.gov.
The agency address provided is for reference purposes only.
File Notes:
The NOFA file contains the full solicitation for this program.
| Project: | Wildlife Cooperative Extension Agreement (275.0 Kb) |
|---|---|
| Applicant: | Municipio de Culebra |
| Summary: |
The purpose of this program is to provide technical and financial assistance to private landowners for habitat restoration on their lands. The Municipio de Culebra was granted $20,000 to reduce the sedimentation along the Flamenco Road, thus minimizing the negative effects on the coastal ecosystems, such as Laguna Flamenco mangrove and coral reefs. |
Grant Keywords
state, county, city, township, special district, school district, institution of higher education, federally recognized, Native American tribal government, tribal government, public housing authority, Indian housing authority, Native American tribal organization, tribal organization, 501(c)(3), nonprofit organizations, for-profit, small business, Department of Interior, Department of the Interior, DOI, FWS, USFWS, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System, wild life, partner, partnering, partnership, technical assistance, financial assistance, private land, landowner, landownership, restore, restoring, restoration, conserve, conserving, conservation, fish, fishes, habitat, environment, environmental, environmentalism, ecosystem, federal trust, natural resource, priority, priorities, biological diversity, science, scientific, Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act of 2006, S.260 Public Law 109-294, Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956, 16 U.S.C. 742a-c, 747e-742j, Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1958, 16 U.S.C. 661 667(e), property, properties, tribe, tribal, Indigenous, Hawaiian homeland, municipal, municipality, fee-title, non-governmental, field biologist, local, community, communities, regulatory, Endangered Species Act, ESA, infrastructure, modernize, modernizing, modernization, passage, safe, safety, protect, protecting, protection, protected, travel, aquatic, flood, flooding, damage, damaged, wetland, levee, dam, water control, fence, fencing, sovereignty, hunt, hunting, fishing, recreation, recreational, refuge, fragmentation, buffer, movement corridor, self-sustaining, sustainable, sustainability, ecology, preservation, preserve, stewardship, animal, biodiversity, population, wildlife, threatened, migrate, migration, migratory route, native species, fisheries, fishery, National Wildlife Refuge, land use, land management, PFW, PFW Program, tribal community, urban, urban area, disadvantaged, underserved, Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, habitat conservation, species conservationGrant Categories
Environment/Natural ResourcesHuman Services