Grants

LISFC makes a wide range of grants covering many areas of environmental activity. We do both aligned grantmaking and pooled grantmaking. Below is an overview of grants made in 2024 with our pooled resources. Most of these would have been too large or complex for our members to have made on their own.

The Maritime Aquarium of Norwalk

Amount: $147,816. Includes $100,000 in sub-awards for partner organizations.

Purpose: To bring together a new collaboration of nonprofits to advance coastal restoration projects.

Collective Oyster Recycling & Restoration Foundation (CORR)

Amount: $50,000

Purpose: To recycle shells to be used for oyster reef restoration projects in LIS.

Save the Sound

Amount: $138,939

Purpose: To build regional capacity for polymerase chain reaction testing at Save the Sound’s lab.

The Guardians of Flushing Bay

Amount:  $48,241

Purpose: To build organizational capacity hiring of a Finance and Development Coordinator.

Friends of the Bay

Amount: $66,654

Purpose: To organize and mobilize the organization’s growing volunteer base via a Volunteer Coordinator and new software.

Henry L. Ferguson Museum

Amount: $27,000

Purpose: To pilot eco-moorings, a conservation management strategy for eelgrass.

Save the Sound

Amount: $100,000

Purpose: To pilot ecoSPEARS as a tool to decontaminate dam sediment in situ.

Alewife Cove Conservancy

Amount: $10,000

Purpose: To evaluate the suitability of cove organic sediments for marsh enhancement.