Conservation Fund A Nonprofit Corp

Conservation Fund A Nonprofit Corp, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, acts primarily as a federal grant recipient (94% of awards) delivering land acquisition, habitat conservation, marsh restoration, and compensatory-mitigation training to the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, and other federal environmental agencies. The organization competes for and secures funding in the open market across environmental consulting services (NAICS 541620), conservation and wildlife organizations (NAICS 813312), and real estate appraisal services (NAICS 413310).

The grant footprint spans federal land and water conservation, habitat restoration, and environmental-market education. Representative work includes a $1.52 million cooperative agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 (awarded January 2023, running through December 2027) to implement marsh restoration strategies at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, including planning in 2023–2024 and implementation and monitoring from 2024–2027; a $166 million cooperative agreement with the Army Readiness Center (awarded March 2023, running through September 2033) for the Army Compatible Use Buffer at Camp Williams, Utah, using Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration funds for land conservation adjacent to military installations; and an $30 thousand cooperative agreement with the USDA Office of the Chief Economist (awarded August 2025, completing January 2026) to deliver an eight-session online advanced training course on compensatory mitigation to credit developers, credit buyers, permit writers, and private landowners, with up to 300 participants anticipated. Conservation Fund also holds a $60 thousand firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded June 2025 by an unnamed National Office civilian agency for mitigation trainings, completing June 2025.

Customer concentration centers on Fish and Wildlife Service regional offices. The top five customers by award count account for 35% of awards: the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters (15 awards, $226 thousand combined potential value), the Fish and Wildlife Service (16 awards, $39 thousand), Region 5 (10 awards, $43 thousand), the USDA Agricultural Research Service (11 awards), and the Appalachian Regional Commission (9 awards). By combined potential value, Region 9 Headquarters leads at $226 thousand across 15 awards, followed by the USDA Office of the Chief Economist at $62 thousand across 2 awards. Conservation Fund serves 40 distinct federal agencies across 175 total awards spanning prime grants (164 awards) and grant sub-awards (11 awards, routed through National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and others).

Activity has remained modestly distributed across recent years (3 awards in 2022, 7 in 2023, 5 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 2 through May 2026), with combined obligated dollars of $158.5 million against combined potential value of $1.9 million — an anomaly suggesting a substantial backlog of completed or nearly completed awards carried in potential-value accounting. Conservation Fund places work under five named parent indefinite delivery and blanket purchase vehicles: IDC 982101D101 (8 task orders, $148 thousand), IDC INF501816D007 (8 task orders, $203 thousand), BPA INF10PA60444 (5 task orders, $142 thousand), and BPA INF98210AA012 (3 task orders, $84 thousand). In its rare subcontract role, Conservation Fund partners with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and other institutional prime grantees on habitat protection, species recovery, and coastal restoration work.