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The Diller Foundation Dba the Diller- Von Furstenberg Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$27M
Granted FY2021
69
Grants FY2021
13
States reached
$13M
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172021.

Arts & Culture$19MRecreation & Sports$14MEducation$11MInternational$7.3MHealth$3.3MHuman Services$1.3MEnvironment$1.2MYouth Development$785kPhilanthropy$568kOther$11M
02FY2021 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k9 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $460k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+20 grants · $24M
$100,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIER55 INC DBA LITTLE ISLAND$13,400,000
VITAL VOICES$2,500,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$1,750,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$1,000,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MALIBU$510,000
VITAL VOICES$500,000
THIRTEENWNET$500,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$500,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$500,000
MILKEN INSTITUTE$425,000
VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM$400,000
VITAL VOICES$300,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$250,000
CURTIS SCHOOL$250,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$250,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANNIECANNONS: $10k → 10%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $10k → 21%NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $5k → 28%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $5k → 21%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $20k → 14%SHE SHOULD RUN: $10k → 14%HUDSON GUILD: $200k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS' COMMITTEE: $200k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 17%BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION: $50k → 17%SHE'S THE FIRST: $10k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $250k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $80k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $40k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $40k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $40k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $40k → 17%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $35k → 17%A SENSE OF HOME: $10k → 14%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $50k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$36M · 54 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2021, 25 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
80

Total granted

$36M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+29%

Still filing today

78%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5.1M · revenue +53%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +81%
  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $885k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CS
    CULTURE SHED INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2.0M
  • HV
    HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +21%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

3
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
7
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

8
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

11
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement and the most unlike its peers is PIER55 Inc D/B/a Little Island. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Youth CampsCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community College Foundatio…Lgbtq+ Community SupportIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/134
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,431

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 167 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/123
Grantees still filing
87/123
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BUCK'S ROCK CAMP INC — $14,075,000 · Arts & CultureBUCK'S ROCK CAMP INCSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC — $1,590,000 · Arts & CultureSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND…FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC — $1,000,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $1,156,500 · Arts & Culture+14 morePIER55 INC D/B/A LITTLE ISLAND — $13,400,000 · Recreation & SportsPIER55 INC D/B/A LITTLE…LOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028 — $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsLOS ANGELES ORGANIZING …+1 more — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsUCLA FOUNDATION — $8,350,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $885,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOLGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $785,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERS…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $500,000 · Education+8 more — $885,000 · Education+8 moreCULTURE SHED INC — $2,000,000 · OtherCULTURE SHED INCHARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES — $1,500,000 · OtherHARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMI…BABY2BABY — $730,000 · OtherACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES — $650,000 · OtherCHABAD OF MALIBU — $600,000 · OtherCURTIS SCHOOL — $600,000 · OtherTHIRTEENWNET — $500,000 · OtherTSNE MISSIONWORKS PROSECUTOR IMPACT — $500,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $485,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,050,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUNDMALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES — $510,000 · Other+84 more — $4,833,680 · Other+84 moreVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,107,705 · InternationalVITAL VOICE…International Rescue Committee INC — $1,300,000 · InternationalInternation…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $500,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHT…+8 more — $408,000 · International+8 moreBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $800,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $500,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500,000 · HealthVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $465,000 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT — $425,000 · HealthHERNIA REPAIR FOR THE UNDERSERVED — $250,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — $215,000 · Health+5 more — $140,600 · HealthHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $550,000 · Human ServicesHUDSON GUILDINC — $200,250 · Human ServicesBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $101,819 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesBROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION INC — $50,000 · Human Services+10 more — $120,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$18,821,500Recreation & Sports$14,460,000Education$11,405,000Other$13,958,680International$7,315,705Health$3,295,600Human Services$1,282,069

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBUCK'S ROCK CAMP INC — $14,075,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPIER55 INC D/B/A LITTLE ISLAND — $13,400,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $8,350,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,107,705 over 5y, 11% of budgetSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC — $1,590,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,050,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $1,000,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028 — $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC — $1,000,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $885,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $800,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $785,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY — $730,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES — $650,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $550,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES — $510,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $500,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $485,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $465,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT — $425,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK AND PINK INC — $290,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO FOUNDATION USA — $282,610 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERNIA REPAIR FOR THE UNDERSERVED — $250,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — $215,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC — $200,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BRILAND AID INC — $200,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS — $150,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $140,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $102,626 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $101,819 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPS 11 PROGRAMS INC — $100,125 over 1y, 14% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICIVICS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetINDEPENDENT SCHOOL ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY AFFAIRS — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAll Americans Vote — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArt Division — $100,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetCRAFT CONTEMPORARY — $100,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Diller-Von Furstenberg Family FoundationNY36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Pinkerton Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · American Express Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Diller Foundation Dba the Diller- Von Furstenberg Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Icivics Inc13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc9% of income from government
  • 20 Summers Inc2% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
31report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Diller Foundation Dba the Diller- Von Furstenberg Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Diller Foundation Dba the Diller- Von Furstenberg Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 167 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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