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Request for Proposals: Avangrid Foundation Wildlife Rehabilitation Grants 2025
Applications Accepted: September 15, 2025 – October 15, 2025
"We're very excited to enter this partnership with Avangrid," said Executive Director Dan Goldbacher. "Avangrid Foundation's commitment to conservation and biodiversity will help us build something we've long dreamed of — a pre-release conditioning enclosure that will allow our recovering raptors to practice the wide banked turns they need to build up all of their muscles before heading back to the wild. A flight mew like the one we're planning will allow us to help even more birds from across southern California as we work to ensure a healthy population of raptors for future generations."
Avangrid Foundation is independent, pro-bono, mission-driven, 501(c)(3) organization that serves as the primary philanthropic arm of Avangrid in the United States, with a focus on building sustainable communities and helping at-risk “persons” (and wildlife!).
In collaboration with our family of companies, the Foundation provides opportunities for wildlife rehabilitators to apply for grants to support their operational capabilities and expand outreach to communities historically in and around our power generation facilities. Numerous rehabilitation centers nationwide, which treat a variety of injured wildlife — from mammals to reptiles to birds — have received funding from the Avangrid Foundation to help improve care and services since 2016.
The goals of the grants include:
- Support community/regional wildlife rehabilitation centers caring for injured wildlife.
- Support outreach to the public to improve knowledge and awareness of wildlife resources and through providing information, training, and resources.
- Foster a relationship with rehabilitation centers to enhance mutual awareness and strengthen relationships with the environmental community where we have an operating presence.
We are committed to expand funding opportunities and geography to reach rehabilitators everywhere Avangrid does business, including organizations focused on coastal and marine life.
Many of the partnerships established through this program have spanned multiple years, deepening our collaboration and collective ability to make real positive impact for the good of the wildlife and our environment.
Please find a link to the press release from our 2024 grantees and a summary of the grants here.
Eligibility Requirements & Information:
- Eligible 501(c)(3) organizations or qualified entities may apply.
- Organizations whose primary mission includes wildlife rehabilitation.
- Organizations with more than one year of operating activity.
- Organizations that hold current, applicable permits from the appropriate agencies to handle and rehabilitate wildlife.
- Download our 2025 Funding Inquiry Form.
- All organizations must complete and e-mail a funding request by midnight on October 15th to avangridfoundation@avangrid.com.
For additional information on Avangrid Foundation funding guidelines please visit this link.
Please note that preference may be given to:
- Organizations operating in proximity to where Avangrid has an operating presence. To learn more, visit this link.
- Organizations that rehabilitate avifauna, including raptors, other large birds & shorebirds
- Organizations that rehabilitate/protect bats
- Organizations that rehabilitate threatened and endangered wildlife (all)
- Organizations that rehabilitate marine life
Successful award notification will be made by December 31, 2025, via email.
For Information contact: avangridfoundation@avangrid.com
*Submitting an application does not constitute a contract or an agreement to fund by the Avangrid Foundation*
About Avangrid: Avangrid, Inc. is a leading energy company in the United States working to meet the growing demand for energy for homes and businesses across the nation through service, innovation, and continued investments by expanding grid infrastructure and energy generation projects. Avangrid has offices in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Maine, and Oregon, including operations in 25 states with approximately $48 billion in assets, and has two primary lines of business: networks and power. Through its networks business, Avangrid owns and operates seven electric and natural gas utilities, serving more than 3.4 million customers in New York and New England. Through its power generation business, Avangrid owns and operates more than 80 energy generation facilities across the United States producing more than 10.5 GW of power for over 3.1 million customers. Avangrid employs approximately 8,000 people and has been recognized by JUST Capital as one of the JUST 100 companies – a ranking of America’s best corporate citizens – in 2025 for the fifth consecutive year. The company was named among the World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2025 for the seventh consecutive year by the Ethisphere Institute. Avangrid is a member of the group of companies controlled by Iberdrola, S.A. For more information, visit www.avangrid.com.
About Iberdrola: Iberdrola is one of the world's biggest energy companies and a leader in renewables, spearheading the energy transition to a low carbon economy. The group supplies energy to almost 100 million people in dozens of countries. With a focus on renewable energy, smart networks and smart solutions for customers, Iberdrola’s main markets include Europe (Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy and Greece), the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. The company is also present in growth markets such as Japan, Taiwan, Ireland, Sweden and Poland, among others.
With a workforce of nearly 40,000 and assets in excess of €141.7 billion, across the world, Iberdrola helps to support 400,000 jobs across its supply chain, with annual procurement of €12.2 billion. A benchmark in the fight against climate change, Iberdrola has invested more than €130 billion over the past two decades to help build a sustainable energy model, based on sound environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles.
