The Tulane Museum of Natural History has received the following external funds for direct support of collection curation and improvement:

Fish Collection

• National Science Foundation DBI-9729049: "Phase II Improvements to the Tulane Fish Collection," April 1998 - March 2001. $171,259
• Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund: April 1997
• National Science Foundation DEB-9420877: "Computerization of the Tulane Museum of Natural History Fish Collection," March 1995 - February 1998. $150,508
• National Science Foundation DEB-9401943: "Improvements to the Tulane University Fish Collection," September 1994 - August 1997. $579,048

Invertebrate Collection

• The Coypu Foundation: "Renovation, Curation and Computerization of the Tulane University Invertebrate Collection," May 1999. $149,160.