The FMCN has successfully fulfilled the goals and objectives established at its inception. To date, the endowment has reached US$80 million. Over the years, the FMCN has strived to develop sound investment policies, efficient management of resources, and transparent project selection and monitoring systems. It has facilitated the communication among conservation organizations, provided a platform for the incubation of new conservation programs and successfully met the challenges created by new opportunities to further the conservation of natural resources.
During 1996 the FMCN consolidated its initial endowment with donations from the USAID and the Mexican Government for US$20 million and US$10 million respectively.
At the end of 1996, the National Council for Natural Protected Areas (CONANP), an advisory body to the Mexican Environmental Ministry, selected the FMCN to receive and administer a US$16.48 million from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in support of ten strategic protected areas in Mexico . The design of this endowment, its inclusion into FMCN, and the rules to spend the earned income, was completed in mid-1997. After five years of successful operation and favorable evaluations, FMCN received approval from GEF for a second phase of the FANP for an additional US$22.5 million tranche, and the inclusion of additional 12 protected areas.
The FMCN has received additional endowment contributions for US$35 million from GEF and other sources, such as The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Summit Charitable Foundation, The Ford Foundation, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Marisla Foundation, Wick Communications, Inc., the Mexican Government, the states of Mexico and Michoacán, and Fundación Gonzalo Río Arronte, IAP. The GEF and Mexican Government have pledged an additional US$13.4 million.

The FMCN supports today only 30% of the high quality requests we receive each year through our different calls for proposals. Our protected areas conservation program covers only 20 of the 56 priority protected areas in Mexico . The scale of the challenge to conserve Mexico’s natural resources demands a permanent fund raising effort as well as a robust and long-term capacity building program for national NGO’s and rural organizations.