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Great Public Schools Now

The organization invests in schools, organizations and initiatives that catalyze excellence in public education, convenes leaders and uplifts public understanding to advocate for great public schools.

$9.8M
Granted FY2022
82
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$677k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$61MYouth Development$6.0MHuman Services$2.3MCivil Rights$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.3MPublic Benefit$1.2MRecreation & Sports$884kArts & Culture$793kOther$0
02FY2022 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $625k
  • $50k–250k45 grants · $5.4M
  • $250k+9 grants · $3.7M
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDUCARE FOUNDATION$676,934
LA'S BEST$597,324
CITY OF LOS ANGELES - DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS$592,372
AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS LOS ANGELES$411,388
THE CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION$300,000
RAINBOW LABS$295,066
WOODCRAFT RANGERS$270,182
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON$262,300
CITIZENS OF THE WORLD LOS ANGELES$250,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$238,800
INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$220,000
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES$211,272
THINK TOGETHER$210,595
INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIPS$207,025
UNITED PARENTS & STUDENTS$200,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $405k → 14%SHADETREE MULTICULTURAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $211k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $314k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $310k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $90k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $50k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $27k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $16k → 14%MOTHERS IN ACTION: $25k → 14%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%EL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO: $70k → 14%EL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO: $50k → 14%NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES: $14k → 14%NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES: $5k → 14%PHEONIX HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $175k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $257k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $150k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $75k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $50k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $231k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $225k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP: $75k → 14%CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS: $50k → 14%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $91k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $80k → 14%CARECEN: $75k → 14%WEINGART YMCA AQUATIC AND WELLNESS CENTER: $15k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68M · 93 repeat orgs$8.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

93 repeat relationships: 65 still active in FY2022, 28 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
73

Total granted

$68M
$7.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+31%

Still filing today

96%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $988k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • KS
    KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +171%
  • EA
    EQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +245%
  • EI
    EDNOVATE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +370%

Funded once

  • B
    BLUEPRINTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.5M · revenue +104%
  • HL
    HIGHTECH LAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +122% · 33% of their budget
  • BI
    BES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -55%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
2
The Language Academy of Sacramento

The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…

Education
3
Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…

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4
Elite Public Schools

To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…

Education
5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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6
New Los Angeles Charter School

New los angeles charter school develops a diverse community of students who are passionate about learning, engaged in their community, and have respect for themselves and others.

Education
7
Inspire Charter School - Los Angeles

Provide a high standard of education to students through comprehensive curriculum supported by energetic, dynamic, and caring teachers.

—
8
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

—
9
Fenton Charter Public Schools

To cultivate a love of learning by fostering an environment that promotes self-discovery, independence, and an awareness of the connection between self and others.

Education
10
Bridges Charter School

Our mission is to educate the whole child using a combination of innovative curriculum and instruction along with social/emotional education embedded in the program. students will be enabled to reach their innate intellectual, creative,…

Education
11
High Tech High

High tech high's mission is to develop and support innovative public schools where all students develop the academic, workplace and citizenship skills for postsecondary success.

Education
12
Leadership Public Schools

Our mission is to create inclusive, empowering, and college-preparatory experiences that equip students to succeed in college, career, and as leaders in their communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After-School All-Stars Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Music & Arts Foundation in America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

221 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
213/221
Grantees still filing
153/221
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $5,390,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATIONKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $4,804,277 · EducationKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLSTeach for America Inc: $4,000,000 · EducationTeach for America IncEQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,597,500 · EducationEQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLEDNOVATE INC: $3,228,484 · EducationEDNOVATE INCCitizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles: $2,762,400 · EducationPARENT REVOLUTION INC: $2,254,712 · Education+81 more: $29,569,762 · Education+81 moreLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3,092,410 · OtherLOS ANGELES UNIFI…SPEAK UP FOUNDATION: $1,001,190 · OtherSPEAK UP FOUNDATI…EDUCARE FOUNDATION: $992,984 · OtherEDUCARE FOUNDATIO…ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $845,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR COLL…WOODCRAFT RANGERS: $819,032 · OtherWOODCRAFT RANGERSLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $617,372 · Other+44 more: $4,252,064 · Other+44 moreINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $938,055 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOS: $806,329 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $711,272 · Human ServicesPHOENIX HOUSES OF CALIFORNIA INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesCentral American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California: $166,050 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO INC: $120,000 · Human Services+11 more: $434,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC: $518,950 · Youth DevelopmentRAINBOW LABS MENTORING INC: $482,466 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $414,308 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $251,236 · Youth DevelopmentTEAM PRIME TIME INC: $184,906 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $90,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $98,890 · Youth DevelopmentINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,494,684 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC: $340,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $76,000 · PhilanthropyALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $968,764 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $493,800 · Community ImprovementPartnership for Children & Youth: $97,460 · Community Improvement+1 more: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE 74 MEDIA INC: $225,000 · Arts & CultureNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA: $164,975 · Arts & CultureMUSIC & ARTS FOUNDATION IN AMERICA: $101,640 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $57,175 · Arts & CultureNEW EARTH ORGANIZATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK: $35,000 · Arts & CultureLATINO MEDIA COLLABORATIVE: $35,000 · Arts & CultureGIRLS IN FOCUS: $34,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $69,075 · Arts & Culture
Education$55,607,135Other$11,620,052Human Services$3,350,706Youth Development$2,040,756Philanthropy$1,910,684Community Improvement$1,610,024Arts & Culture$946,865

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $5,390,000 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $4,804,277 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $4,000,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,597,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetEDNOVATE INC: $3,228,484 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetCitizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles: $2,762,400 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetPARENT REVOLUTION INC: $2,254,712 over 5y, 53% of budgetLA'S BEST: $1,744,824 over 4y, 13% of budgetTNTP INC: $1,581,622 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Parents and Students: $1,518,010 over 9y, 27% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $1,500,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetBLUEPRINT: $1,500,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetHIGHTECH LA: $1,500,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,494,684 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $1,480,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,472,400 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT STAR EDUCATION GROUP: $1,448,155 over 2y, 21% of budgetAccelerate Institute: $1,250,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetGreen Dot Public Schools: $1,188,460 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $1,187,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS LOS ANGELES: $1,116,188 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetSPEAK UP FOUNDATION: $1,001,190 over 5y, 33% of budgetEDUCARE FOUNDATION: $992,984 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $968,764 over 9y, 43% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $938,055 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $845,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWOODCRAFT RANGERS: $819,032 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $806,329 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $711,272 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $617,372 over 5y, 18% of budgetCENTER FOR POWERFUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $595,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetBRIGHT STAR SCHOOLS: $572,748 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILIES IN SCHOOLS: $542,800 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetSTAR SPORTS THEATRE ARTS & RECREATION INC: $541,928 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $522,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC: $518,950 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetSTEM PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC: $506,400 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBES INC: $500,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $493,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRAINBOW LABS MENTORING INC: $482,466 over 2y, 57% of budgetTHINK TOGETHER: $470,595 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $414,308 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetAdvancement Through Opportunity & Knowledge Inc: $376,549 over 3y, 14% of budgetLAUREL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $376,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetOUR TURN INC: $375,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $340,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS: $332,984 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLS: $330,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds EQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds EDNOVATE INC ↗
  • Who funds Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds PARENT REVOLUTION INC ↗
  • Who funds LA'S BEST ↗
  • Who funds TNTP INC ↗
  • Who funds United Parents and Students ↗
  • Who funds ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds BLUEPRINT ↗
  • Who funds HIGHTECH LA ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT STAR EDUCATION GROUP ↗
  • Who funds Accelerate Institute ↗
  • Who funds Green Dot Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds SPEAK UP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EDUCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds INNERCITY STRUGGLE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds WOODCRAFT RANGERS ↗
  • Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POWERFUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT STAR SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds STAR SPORTS THEATRE ARTS & RECREATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC ↗
  • Who funds STEM PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds BES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA109× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · United Way Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Great Public Schools Now funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Great Public Schools Now. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
85report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 185 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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