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The Gulf Coast Community Foundation announces that it has funded $150 million in grants to charities since 1995.

The foundation, a nonprofit that awards grants to the Gulf Coast community that covers various causes of philanthropy, passed its target three years after it made a total of $100 million in grants.

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