OUR GRANTS

Enhancing the understanding of biological diversity for the benefit and sustainability of life on earth.

Tusk Trust (2025)

JRS-TUSK Partnership to Support Biodiversity Monitoring Capacity for African Protected Areas and Conservation Leaders

$200,000 (15 months)

Freshwater Research Centre | African Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (2025)

FBIS-Africa: A Freshwater Biodiversity System for Africa

$499,320 (48 Months)

SOS SAHEL (2025)

Biodiversity Mapping in Transfrontier Savannahs of Senegal and Chad

$250,000 (24 months)

Freshwater Research Centre | Capacity Buillding for Water Policy Managers (2025)

Policy Implementation for Water Resources and Biodiversity Protection through Capacity Building of Water Managers

$168,561 (24 Months)

Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD) 2025

Biodiversity Systems Management and Analytics for the Restoration of Transboundary Rivers of South Africa, Mozambique and Eswatini (BIO-SMART Phase 2)

$353,860 (24 Months)

UCLA Center for Tropical Research & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2023)

Advancing Environmental DNA Research Capacity in Rwanda to Inform Conservation Decisions

$245,865 (36 Months)

Conserve Global (2023)

Advancing Community Conservation Management through Integrated Habitat Monitoring in Northern Zambia Game Management Areas

$92,508 (30 Months)

University of Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar (UNAD) & SOS SAHEL Senegal (2023)

Niokolo-Koba National Park Buffer Zone Biodiversity Survey

$50,000 (12 Months)

Hawassa University (2023)

Insect Pollinator Diversity Under Different Land Uses in and around Kafa Biosphere Reserve and Bale Mountains National Park

$219,213 (36 Months)

University of Namibia (2022)

Establishing Capacity for Sustained Production of National Spatial Biodiversity Data Products: Guiding Progress towards the post2020 Global Biodiversity Framework Goals and Targets

$249,929 (36 Months)

Research Unit of Tropical Mycology and Soil-Plant Fungi Interactions, University of Parakou (2022)

Data Mobilization and Long Term Conservation of Wild Fungi (WEF) in Benin

$65,000 (30 Months)

Media For Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (2021)

Journalists acting for biodiversity

$56,862 (24 months)

Threatened Species Conservation Alliance (2021)

Reinforcing the capacity for conservation science and planning for young West African conservationists

$75,636 (24 Months)

Freshwater Research Centre (2020)

Demand-driven, high impact, expansion of the Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS) for freshwater decision-making in South Africa

$ 337,000 (36 Months)

Malawi University of Science and Technology (2020)

Development of a Biodiversity Informatics MSc program at the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST)

$339,500 (36 months)

Okavango Research Institute, University of Botswana (2020)

ORBIS: Okavango Repository for BIodiverSity Data Planning

$50,000 (6 months)

Southern Africa Development Community – Groundwater Management Institute (2020)

Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) and Biodiversity in the Khakea/Bray Transboundary Aquifer

$308,100 (36 months)

Freshwater Research Centre Workshop (2019)

Developing freshwater biodiversity information systems: Workshop for African Freshwater Information System Projects

$ 54,900 (7 Months)

Association for Water and Rural Development (2019)

Enhanced bioinformatics capacity for data sharing and decision-support for freshwater biodiversity conservation of the transboundary rivers of the Kruger National Park

$ 284,000 (36 Months)

Sokoine University of Agriculture (2019)

Freshwater Biodiversity Information System for Sustainable Conservation of Rufiji River Basin in Tanzania

$ 53,280 (11 months)

Naturalis: Biodiversity_Next Conference (2019)

Biodiversity_Next Conference and African Theme Sponsorship

$60,000 (Six months)

South African National Biodiversity Institute (2019)

African Biodiversity Challenge: Unlocking Decision-Data Pathways for Sustainable Development

$ 321,000 (36 months)

Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (2019)

Development of a National Biodiversity Data Portal (NBDP) based on ALA Open Source Software

$ 240,000.00 (36 Months)

Water Journalists Africa (2019)

InfoNile.org: A Geojournalism Platform Connecting Journalists and Scientists in the Nile Basin for Data-Based Communication on Biodiversity

$ 299,900

Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management, University of Rwanda (2019)

Developing a freshwater biodiversity information system for sustainable development and climate change adaptation in Rwanda

$334,000 (36 months)

African Conservation Centre (2018)

Follow on Support for Kenya Biodiversity Web Portal Project

$ 80,000 (9 Months)

Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management, University of Rwanda (2018)

Planning phase: developing a freshwater biodiversity information system for sustainable development and climate change adaptation in Rwanda

$10,584 (9 months)

Albertine Rift Conservation Society (2018)

Using Ecological Integrity Assessment to Guide Wetlands Management in Rwanda

$ 250,000 (24 months)

South African National Biodiversity Institute (2016)

African Biodiversity Challenge: Unlocking Data for Sustainable Development

$293,000 (36 months)

International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN, 2016)

Biodiversity Information For the Lake Malawi Catchment Eastern Africa: Data For Decision-makers

$252,000 (36 Months)

Wildlife Conservation Society - REBIOMA (2011)

Madagacar Biodiversity Data Sharing

$200,000 (27 Months)

Wildlife Conservation Society - REBIOMA (2013)

REBIOMA Madagascar Data Portal

$120,000 (24 Months)

African Conservation Centre (2014)

Biodiversity Knowledgebase to Support Decision-making in Kenya

$359,600

African Technology Policy Studies Network (2014)

Biodiversity Informatics Policy Landscape

$50,050 (18 Months)

Albertine Rift Conservation Society (2011)

Albertine Rift Biodiversity Portal

$196,075 (24 Months)

Albertine Rift Conservation Society (2013)

Albertine Rift Biodiversity Portal

$100,000 (15 Months)

CyberTracker (2012)

Cyber Tracker Upgrade

$134,400 (12 Months)

CyberTracker (2013)

CyberTracker Software and Website Upgrade

$60,000 (24 Months)

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

2012 Biodiversity Informatics Conference

$25,000 (17 Months)

Institute of Policy Analysis and Research - Rwanda (2014)

Biodiversity Informatics Policy Research

$49,400 (18 Months)

Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado (2011)

The Geospatial Center for Biodiversity

$190,750 (25 Months)

Museo Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado (2013)

Geospatial Center for Biodiversity - Bolivia

$189,970 (30 Months)

NatureServe Policy Review (2015)

How biodiversity information informs national policy in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia

$94,000 (18 Months)

South African National Biodiversity Institute (2012)

Mobilizing Africa's Biodiversity Data

$246,000 (30 Months)

South African National Biodiversity Institute (2014)

Biodiversity Heritage Library Africa

$150,000 (36 Months)

Tulane University (2014)

Pre-TDWG 2014-2015 Collaboration Building

$106,950 (12 Months)

University of Kansas Center for Research

Biodiversity Informatics Training for Africa and the World

$414,858 (54 Months)

Wildlife Conservation Society - Camera Traps (2014)

Camera Trap Data Repository for Biodiversity Monitoring

$202,929 (24 Months)

Learn More About Our Programs

Freshwater

Freshwater resources in Africa are insecure in quantity and quality, and water resource development is a high priority for governments and international donors. We are developing grantmaking initiatives in Freshwater data and information systems to support conservation and development. We aim to address the urgent need for better freshwater biodiversity assessment and access to freshwater biodiversity data by all stakeholders.

Pollinators

Pollination is critical to sustaining human nutrition and agricultural livelihoods, yet studies show a widespread global decline in pollinator biodiversity. In Africa, the conservation sector lacks the baseline data, effective monitoring methods, information services, and evidence of pollinator status and value to influence policy. Our Pollinator Biodiversity Program aims to increase the accessibility and quality of pollinator biodiversity data through a long-term investment in collecting baseline data, developing technologies and methods to do so, and creating data sharing platforms relevant at regional and local levels.

Capacity

Our goal is to expand the tools and processes used to collect, manage, and disseminate biodiversity data and information in sub-Saharan Africa. That makes capacity-building the over-arching focus of the Foundation. Our other two Programs in Freshwater and Pollinator Biodiversity are intended to drive and sustain biodiversity informatics capacity.

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