The F.M. Kirby Foundation in Morristown, New Jersey, has announced that it awarded 266 grants totaling more than $16.8 million in 2024, an increase of over 9 percent year-over-year.

Grants were awarded to organizations working in the areas of education ($4.4 million), human services ($4 million), health ($2.7 million), arts, culture, and humanities ($2.4 million), environment and animals ($1.7 million), public affairs ($1.2 million), and religion ($127,500). More than half the grants (56 percent) were provided as general operating support, and 108 grants (40.6 percent) were awarded to organizations that have been Kirby’s funding partners for more than 25 years. Grants awarded in New Jersey and North Carolina—the foundation’s primary geographic areas of interest—accounted for $10 million in support, nearly 60 percent of all funding.

In addition, through the foundation’s partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, the fourth annual Kirby Prize for Scaling Social Impact—an unrestricted $150,000 grant, up from $100,000 last year—was awarded to Semilla Nueva, a Guatemala and Boise, Idaho-based organization working to combat malnutrition through the development and distribution of biofortified maize.

For a complete list of grant recipients, see the F.M. Kirby Foundation website.

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