2024 Report now available: community and territory, more than ever

July 25, 2025 – It’s not possible to explain 2024 in a linear way. Not for the Foundation nor for the people living in this territory. It is necessary to draw a line separating everything that happened until October 29 from what followed. On that day, the life of the Foundation changed, as it did in the entire region of l’Horta Sud, Foia de Bunyol, Ribera Alta, Utiel-Requena and other areas outside the Valencian territory. For this reason, the Foundation’s 2024 annual report couldn’t ignore this. That fateful October 29, everything “faded to black,” as the second part of the Foundation’s annual report, now available online, begins. In this report, you will find all the activities carried out from January to October, before the DANA impacted our lives. Then, there is a narrative section, which explains the Foundation’s experience during the final two months of the year—also an essential part of the 2024 report. Likewise, in the transparency section, you will also find the annual accounts, 2024 balance sheet, and profit and loss statements, where all assets, net worth, and liabilities of our organisation are clearly detailed.

2024: community and territory despite adversity

Once again, and despite the circumstances, community and territory remained at the heart of everything the Foundation developed. Through the School of Associations, over 500 associations were able to resolve doubts about the daily management of their organisations and learn key aspects for the proper functioning of their entities, such as managing digital certificates, monitoring grants, or complying with documentation obligations, among others. Likewise, four new practical resources were published openly and under a Creative Commons license to expand this open knowledge.

Regarding the territory, Serà Horta Sud 2030 once again saw a flurry of activity—both internally and externally—and the Comarcal Museum of l’Horta Sud remained a meeting space for people in the region, hosting various exhibitions and workshops.

Networks and new ways of seeing

Working in networks, a core aspect of the Foundation, was once again key in 2024. This included participation in association fairs organised by local councils in the region, engagement in the community foundations group of the Spanish Association of Foundations (AEF), and participation in international conferences, among others.

But 2024 also stood out for the continued effort to explore new perspectives. Of note is the new format of the Papers Magazine (from September, issues 87 and 88 will be available online); the launch of the collective book “Mirades Associatives: Half a Century of Shared Learnings”, and the community art process, which rethinks the narrative of associativism through an intergenerational working group including people from neighbourhood activism, energy rights, sustainable mobility, social inclusion, music, youth, feminism, the environment, and the falles traditions.

Financial support: key to the empowerment of associations

Once again, the Foundation, together with Caixa Popular and Grupo Ugarte Automoción, awarded the Grants for Projects that Change the World, aiming to enable inter-associative projects that improve the territory and empower the community. Moreover, financial support was especially crucial in the second half of the year, after the DANA. Thanks to the support of thousands of people who contributed their grain of sand, it was possible to deliver half a million euros to the associative movement before the end of the year, so that hundreds of associations in the areas affected by the DANA wouldn’t disappear and could resume their activity as soon as possible.

During the last months of 2024, various assessments were promoted and infographics and other practical materials were developed to evaluate the DANA’s impact on the associative fabric. All this information—and more that could not be included in this article—as well as the financial summary of the year, can be found in the online report.