National Audubon Society, Inc.

National Audubon Society, Inc., a tax-exempt non-profit conservation organization headquartered in New York, receives federal grant awards and cooperative agreements as a prime recipient for habitat restoration, wetland management, bird monitoring, and climate-resilient landscape conservation across domestic and international landscapes, competing in full-and-open procurement and acting as a prime recipient on 79% of its recent awards.

Audubon's federal footprint centers on cooperative agreements and project grants in conservation and environmental stewardship, not federal contracts. The organization delivers concrete field work: wetland habitat monitoring and restoration planning (a $24,774 purchase order from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in New Mexico for drone aerial imagery, vegetation surveys, and bird monitoring at two Rio Grande easements through December 2027); climate modeling and decision-support tools for migratory bird conservation in Latin America (a $1.198 million grant from NASA's Shared Services Center for modeling climate change effects on bird distributions across 800 resident and migratory species, with completion scheduled January 2028); seabird colony protection and monitoring across Maine coastal islands (a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service); and habitat restoration spanning grassland management, forest stewardship, salt marsh recovery, and pollinator-friendly agriculture. A $2.696 million Cooperative Agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration funds culvert replacement and living shoreline design at Hammonasset Beach State Park in Connecticut, with community engagement and environmental justice components. The organization also receives funding under USDA Forest Service Inflation Reduction Act programs—a $2.564 million cooperative agreement for bird-friendly maple syrup producer development and a $1.240 million award for climate solutions and forest resilience in South Carolina.

Customer concentration is highly distributed across 51 federal agencies. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service dominates by award count, with 56 awards across its regional offices and headquarters, followed by the Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (33 awards) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (29 awards, $22 thousand combined potential value). The Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (Upper Midwest and Great Lakes) and Region 9 Headquarters (Latin America and Caribbean) together account for 54 awards. NASA's Shared Services Center anchors potential value, with 4 awards totaling $1.9 million. The concentration pattern reveals a conservation-grant organization whose revenue model relies on cooperative agreements and project grants with federal land and wildlife agencies rather than traditional federal contracts—only one Purchase Order award ($24,774) appears in the prime contract footprint.

Audubon's activity has grown year over year—17 awards in 2022 to 38 in 2024—though 2025 and 2026 awards remain partial-year counts. Sixteen awards (combined potential value $1.2 million) reach completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete opportunity. The organization acts as prime recipient on 79% of awards and as sub-recipient on 21%, typically under prime grantees including the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the University System of New Hampshire, state departments of natural resources and wildlife, and other non-profits. Representative sub-recipient relationships include work with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation on grassland bird conservation and marsh restoration across multiple states, with the University of Massachusetts on climate-change bird research, and with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department on shorebird stewardship.

Audubon's geographic scope spans the United States—with concentrated activity in the Great Lakes, Atlantic Coast, and Southwest—and extends to Latin America and the Caribbean through projects in Colombia, Panama, and Chile addressing full annual-cycle migratory bird conservation and biodiversity-friendly agriculture. Place of performance includes New York headquarters for administrative oversight, with field operations across CONUS and Latin America. The organization operates no federal contract vehicles; all activity routes through grant and cooperative-agreement channels. Audubon competes in full-and-open procurement; no set-aside designations appear across the footprint.