What We Do

The Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization that helps meet financial needs placed on natural resource conservation and conservation-related outdoor recreation. Since being founded in 1997, we have allocated more than $12 million for conservation funding statewide.

We are separate from the Missouri Department of Conservation but support that agency's mission of protecting the state's fish, forestry and wildlife resources for all Missourians. By working with Missouri Department of Conservation staff members, who have already researched areas of greatest conservation priority, we fund projects that address immediate conservation and outdoor-recreation needs. Conservation Department staff members also partner with conservation groups statewide, and these groups in turn invest funds of their own to projects that we support.

Missourians live in a state with abundant natural resources, and those of us who cherish the outdoors are in good company: Thousands of people and hundreds of organizations care about and work to conserve natural Missouri.

But conservation takes funding - and for most groups, funding is a challenge. We address this challenge by helping meet financial needs placed on natural resource conservation and conservation-related outdoor recreation.