The Knight Foundation website previously announced a $250,000 grant for "Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia", due to run from 1 September 2015 until 31 August 2016, "to advance new models for finding information by supporting stage one development of the Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia, a system for discovering reliable and trustworthy public information on the Internet."
There was nothing on the WMF blog in September 2015, but it seems from this the work on the Knowledge Engine has been ongoing for months.
Could someone please explain why this grant is only being announced now, as though it's something that just happened?
[1] http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/201551260/ https://archive.is/gZ50b