NATIVE AMERICAN FISH & WILDLIFE SOCIETY
To assist Native American and Alaska Native Tribes with the conservation, protection, and enhancement of their fish, wildlife, habitat, and cultural resources.
About NATIVE AMERICAN FISH & WILDLIFE SOCIETY
The Native American Fish & Wildlife Society (NAFWS) is a national tribal nonprofit (501(c)(3)) based in Northglenn, Colorado that was established in the early 1980s to support tribal stewardship of fish, wildlife, habitat and related cultural resources. NAFWS provides training, technical assistance, conferences, funding guidance, policy resources, and youth education to Tribal natural resource programs across the United States. In recent years NAFWS has expanded program delivery and membership: it reports serving hundreds of federally recognized Tribes and several hundred individual members, runs multi-region initiatives (climate adaptation, invasive species response, wildlife health, tribal conservation law enforcement), operates a national youth practicum and certification programs, and files annual Form 990 disclosures demonstrating growing revenues and program-scale increases across 2022–2024.
Notable achievements
HUNSAFE Program Certification
NAFWS’s Huntsafe hunter education program was officially certified through the International Hunters Education Association, formalizing a tribal-focused hunter safety curriculum and training pathway.
National Summer Youth Practicum
NAFWS delivered a National Summer Youth Practicum bringing tribal students together for applied natural-resource training and leadership development, with multiple cohorts in 2023–2024.
Program and Fiscal Growth
Between 2021 and 2024 NAFWS substantially increased its contributed revenue and program capacity, expanding services, staffing, and grant-supported initiatives that enabled broader technical assistance to Tribes nationwide.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $8.5M
- Annual revenue
- $5.2M
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 86-0534380
- Location
- Northglenn, CO
- Website
- www.nafws.org
- On Mahalo since
- September 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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