2026 KITSAP GREAT GIVE RESULTS: EXCEPTIONAL!

NKSF’s Largest Donor Receipts for Kitsap Great Give Ever!

$10,700. That's what this community raised for North Kitsap students during the 2026 Kitsap Great Give — the largest campaign total in our history. Thank you for being part of it.

We set an ambitious goal of $10,000 this year. Early in the giving period, we received word from the Steve and Glenna Swanson Foundation: they were offering to match every donation, dollar for dollar. We moved quickly to get the news out — and you showed up with some serious muscle.

Online donations totaled $5,350 — not counting the match. That's nearly $1,500 more than last year, a 37% increase! In fact, what you gave online alone this year came within $373.55 of our entire campaign last year, including offline gifts and the Kitsap Community Foundation Bonus Pool. No offline donations came in this year, but you more than made up for it.

Average online gifts have been climbing steadily in recent years — $153 in 2023, $165 in 2024, $170 in 2025. This year, with every dollar set to be doubled, donors gave an average of roughly $206. That's your generosity at work. And for the second year running, enough of you opted to cover platform processing fees that every dollar you gave goes directly to North Kitsap classrooms.

We're glad to see donor participation ticking back up this year, too. Giving has grown steadily even as the number of donors declined over recent years — a testament to those of you who kept showing up and giving a little more each time. Having more of you back this year makes that trend even more meaningful.

Moments like this are what our vision of a North Kitsap community united on behalf of its students looks like in practice, and there's so much more we can accomplish together. We're grateful to the Steve and Glenna Swanson Foundation for the rallying cry, and to every one of you who answered it.

Thank you. Watch for our Grants In Action stories to see exactly where your gifts landed. Weekly subscribers see them first.