OUR GRANTS

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

WILDLABS | World Wildlife Fund (2026)

WILDLABS Symposium Training: Scaling Biodiversity Data Capacity for African Women

$81,536 (12 Months)

re:Wild (2026)

Partnership to Build African Capacity for Lost Species Data Collection and Bioinformatics Use to Prioritize Biodiversity Conservation

$150,000 (24 months)

Wild Earth Allies (2025)

Understanding the Ecological and Socioeconomic importance of plants used by Batwa Indigenous Communities in upland Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to Inform Habitat Restoration

$197,570 (30 months)

SOS SAHEL (2025)

Biodiversity Mapping in Transfrontier Savannahs of Senegal and Chad

$250,000 (24 months)

WildTrack & Tswalu Foundation and Oppenheimer Generations Research and Conservation (2023)

Novel Biodiversity Metric: Small Mammal Track Analysis using AI, Morphometrics and Traditional and Local Ecological Knowledge (TaLEK)

$157,449 (18 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)

International Crane Foundation- Zambia (2023)

Designing and Implementing a Wetland Information System for the Kafue Flats Wetlands, Zambia

$249,359 (36 Months)

University of Florida (2022)

Freshwater Biodiversity Data of Rivers of the Lake Victoria Basin

$279,885 (36 months)

World Wildlife Fund (2022)

Improving Conservation Decision-making in Africa with Environmental DNA Technology

$40,000 (4 months)

Wildlife Conservation Society - Neotropics Bat Call Database

Neotropical Bat Recording

$81,620 (15 Months)

Zoological Society of San Diego (2012)

Enhancing Access to Peruvian Plant Specimens through Herbarium Digitization

$ 86,050 (24 Months)

Zoological Society of San Diego (2014)

Enhancing Access to Peruvian Plant Specimens through Herbarium Digitization

$71,900 (24 Months)

California Academy of Sciences (2014)

Digitizing Southwestern-African Herpetological Collections

$56,006 (12 Months)

Colorado State University

Living Atlas of East African Flora

$168,061 (30 Months)

ElephantVoices

Elephant Partners

$290,712 (38 months)

Field Museum of Natural History

The Bats of Kenya

$90,095 (46 Months)

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund - GDFCF (2011)

Applied Informatics through the Rural Brain

$200,000 (12 Months)

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund - GDFCF (2013)

Guanacaste Parataxonomist Program

$200,000 (24 Months)

Mesoamerican Reef Fund (2012)

Meso-American Reef Health Database (2012)

$127,270 (24 Months)

Mesoamerican Reef Fund (2014)

HRI Reef Health Database

$30,000 (24 Months)

Missouri Botanical Garden

The Vahinala Project: A Catalog of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar

$199,455 (36 Months)

NatureServe Policy Review (2015)

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

$94,000 (18 Months)

New York Botanical Garden (2009)

Rescue and Integration of Botanical Data for Conservation in the Southwestern Amazon

$ 199,410 (36 Months)

New York Botanical Garden (2012)

Vietnam Flora

$181,700 (48 Months)

Ohio State University (2015)

Revitalizing Hexacorallians of the World

$7,000 (12 Months)

Tulane University (2014)

Pre-TDWG 2014-2015 Collaboration Building

$106,950 (12 Months)

University of Florida (2015)

Digitizing Southwestern-African Herpetological Collections

$121,707 (18 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)

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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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