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Kitsap Community Foundation

: a catalyst for the greater good.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$205k
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 2024.

Human Services$2.4MEducation$1.8MEnvironment$1.4MReligion$989kFood & Nutrition$695kHealth$499kArts & Culture$425kPhilanthropy$368kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 63 grants below total $1,341,459, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,069,872 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $728,413 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $195k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $557k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $590k
$10,937
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY$205,378
KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES$202,404
BREMERTON WESTSOUND SYMPHONY$66,561
GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY$59,217
TACO BELL FOUNDATION INC$56,100
YMCA KITSAP COUNTY$46,712
PORT ORCHARD ROTARY FOUNDATION$42,293
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$37,000
MULTICARE HEALTH FOUNDATION$32,500
CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION NORTHWEST$29,857
KITSAP HOMES OF COMPASSION$26,662
SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE$25,764
FISHLINE FOOD BANK & COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES$25,010
SALVATION ARMY$21,796
KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER$21,560
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 (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOLLY RIDGE CENTER: $22k → 10%HOLLY RIDGE CENTER: $22k → 10%HOLLY RIDGE CENTER: $21k → 10%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $17k → 10%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $15k → 9%SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $26k → 10%SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $21k → 10%SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $15k → 10%SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $15k → 10%SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $14k → 10%SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $13k → 10%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $120k → 10%ISLAND TIME ACTIVITIES: $40k → 10%HELPLINE HOUSE: $19k → 10%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 10%HELPLINE HOUSE: $12k → 10%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $12k → 10%NEW LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $306k → 10%NEW LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $268k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $210k → 10%KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $202k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $82k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $74k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $72k → 10%BREMERTON WESTSOUND SYMPHONY: $67k → 10%KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $64k → 10%BREMERTON WESTSOUND SYMPHONY: $45k → 10%BREMERTON WESTSOUND SYMPHONY: $44k → 10%KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $39k → 10%SCARLET ROAD: $37k → 10%NEW LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $32k → 10%BREMERTON WESTSOUND SYMPHONY: $31k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $26k → 10%SCARLET ROAD: $25k → 10%NEW LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $25k → 10%KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $22k → 10%COFFEE OASIS: $19k → 10%NEW LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $15k → 10%KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $12k → 10%FISHLINE FOOD BANK & COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES: $81k → 10%KITSAP COUNTY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $73k → 10%YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES: $12k → 10%FISHLINE FOOD BANK & COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES: $25k → 10%NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE: $20k → 10%NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE: $20k → 10%FISHLINE FOOD BANK & COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES: $18k → 10%FISHLINE FOOD BANK & COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES: $16k → 10%FISHLINE FOOD BANK & COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES: $14k → 10%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

WA
ND
NY
CA
NE
KY
TN
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 81 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

81 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
56

Total granted

$8.1M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+17%

Still filing today

73%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TC
    THE COFFEE OASIS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +76%
  • GP
    GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $475k · revenue +489%
  • KC
    KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES
    4× · 2019–2025 · $287k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2025 · $388k
  • FN
    FORTERRA NW
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue -12%
  • N
    NEARZERO
    one grant, 2017 · $109k · revenue -100% · 35% of their budget
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
Kitsap Community Foundation

: a catalyst for the greater good. we partner with donors and others to invest in our region's nonprofit organizations to foster a more vibrant kitsap peninsula for the benefit of all.

Philanthropy
2
Kitsap Legal Services

Providing and facilitating access to justice in kitsap county for low-income individuals or marginalized communities through advocacy and free civil legal services.

Crime & Legal
3
Kirkland Arts Center

Cultivating quality arts experiences, connecting communities, and increasing creative engagement.

Arts & Culture
4
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic

Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved

Health
5
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
7
Tenino Community Service Center

Tenino Community Service Center/Tenino Food Bank Plus is a deep-rooted community-based service center dedicated to feeding those within the Tenino school district (Tenino and Bucoda) that may be disadvantaged. In addition, it is our…

Food & Nutrition
8
Kitsap Sexual Assault Center

The mission of kitsap sexual assault center is to provide guidance and empowerment, without prejudice, to those impacted by sexual assault and violent crimes through ethical and compassionate advocacy and therapeutic services.

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9
Kittitas Conservation Trust

Protect and enhance fish and wildlife habitat, open space, cultural and recreational resources, and scenic views in the Upper Yakima River Basin.

Education
10
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
11
Key Peninsula News

Key Peninsula News mission to reflect and connect the Key Peninsula Community as it evolves and grows.

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12
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kitsap Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Surviving Changer. 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

120 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. 120 of the 156 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/120
Grantees still filing
73/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREMERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,022,200 · OtherBREMERTON SCHOOL DISTRICTKINGSTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $821,523 · OtherKINGSTON CHRISTIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $387,522 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+91 more: $2,776,012 · Other+91 moreNEW LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $655,609 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT…THE COFFEE OASIS: $500,475 · Human ServicesTHE COFFEE OASISKITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $287,276 · Human ServicesKITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCESNORTH KITSAP FISHLINE: $274,248 · Human ServicesNORTH KITSAP FISHLINEBainbridge Youth Services: $203,756 · Human ServicesBainbridge Youth ServicesBAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $138,007 · Human ServicesSOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $114,095 · Human ServicesKITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $90,720 · Human Services+18 more: $438,898 · Human Services+18 moreGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $475,085 · EnvironmentGREAT PEN…FORTERRA NW: $250,000 · EnvironmentFORTERRA …KITSAP AUDUBON SOCIETY: $64,085 · EnvironmentKITSAP AU…+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $114,438 · EducationKITSAP REGIONAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $92,376 · EducationSILVERWOOD SCHOOL: $80,299 · EducationLEADERSHIP KITSAP FOUNDATION: $60,380 · EducationVOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA: $30,000 · EducationThe Island School: $17,064 · Education+3 more: $29,196 · EducationVILLAGE GREEN FOUNDATION: $255,500 · Community ImprovementEXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE KNIGHTS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT LEND PROGRAM SERVICES: $13,724 · Community ImprovementISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $12,026 · Community Improvement+1 more: $6,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY: $249,178 · PhilanthropyBAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyKITSAP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $26,745 · Philanthropy+2 more: $15,391 · PhilanthropyMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $105,600 · HealthPENINSULA COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $36,000 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $32,500 · HealthOLIVE CREST: $31,250 · HealthWEST SOUND TREATMENT CENTER: $22,525 · HealthSMOKETOWN FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER CORP: $20,000 · HealthBEST DENTAL HELP: $10,052 · Health+6 more: $43,362 · Health
Other$5,007,257Human Services$2,703,084Environment$799,170Education$423,753Community Improvement$337,250Philanthropy$331,314Health$301,289

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 budgetNEW LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $655,609 over 6y, 36% of budgetTHE COFFEE OASIS: $500,475 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $475,085 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetKITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $287,276 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH KITSAP FISHLINE: $274,248 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetVILLAGE GREEN FOUNDATION: $255,500 over 3y, 46% of budgetFORTERRA NW: $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY: $249,178 over 5y, 27% of budgetBainbridge Youth Services: $203,756 over 5y, 12% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $138,007 over 4y, 31% of budgetPORT ORCHARD ROTARY FOUNDATION CO TODD EGGERS CPA: $127,003 over 6y, 34% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $114,438 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $114,095 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSAINT VINCENT DE PAUL CONFERENCE OF OUR LADY STAR: $110,360 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetNEARZERO: $108,900 over 1y, 35% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $105,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKITSAP REGIONAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $92,376 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetKITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $90,720 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetBremerton Foodline: $88,596 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetHOLLY RIDGE CENTER: $82,142 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSILVERWOOD SCHOOL: $80,299 over 1y, 11% of budgetCentral Kitsap Food Bank: $79,413 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSCARLET ROAD: $72,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetSharenet Food Bank: $69,914 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetKITSAP AUDUBON SOCIETY: $64,085 over 6y, 48% of budgetLEADERSHIP KITSAP FOUNDATION: $60,380 over 5y, 13% of budgetOUR GEMS: $60,292 over 5y, 16% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $59,033 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHELPLINE HOUSE: $56,552 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTACO BELL FOUNDATION INC: $56,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION: $54,882 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH MASON FOOD BANK: $53,203 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetKITSAP HOMES OF COMPASSION: $52,162 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTown Hall Association: $51,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetKITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY: $42,924 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetISLAND TIME ACTIVITIES: $40,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPATH: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CONCERT INC: $37,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetPENINSULA COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDVANTAGE: $35,775 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPeninsula Alliance: $35,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBREMERTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $32,878 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $32,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREMERTON SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $32,098 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER OF KITSAP: $31,569 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $31,250 over 2y, 0.0% 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 NEW LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE COFFEE OASIS ↗
  • Who funds GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORTERRA NW ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Bainbridge Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PORT ORCHARD ROTARY FOUNDATION CO TODD EGGERS CPA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE ↗
  • Who funds SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL CONFERENCE OF OUR LADY STAR ↗
  • Who funds NEARZERO ↗
  • Who funds MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KITSAP REGIONAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Bremerton Foodline ↗
  • Who funds HOLLY RIDGE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SILVERWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Central Kitsap Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds SCARLET ROAD ↗
  • Who funds Sharenet Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds KITSAP AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP KITSAP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OUR GEMS ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HELPLINE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds TACO BELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION ↗

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.

One Call for AllWA66.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: One Call for All · Bainbridge Community Foundation · First Fed Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Kitsap Credit Union · The Russell Family Foundation · Medina Foundation · Archarios Foundation

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 Kitsap Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kitsap Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 156 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 2024, released 2024. 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 $1.9M 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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