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AIDS Foundation of Chicago

The AIDS Foundation of Chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.

$28M
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$90MHousing & Shelter$71MHuman Services$3.5MCrime & Legal$728kCivil Rights$417kReligion$185kInternational$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 46 grants below total $27,082,497, the rows itemized in this filing. The $28,349,433 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,266,936 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+18 grants · $24M
$203,302
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR HOUSING & HEALTH$15,328,124
HEKTOEN INSTITUTE$1,515,110
CHICAGO HOUSE AND SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY$954,596
MOTHER AND CHILD ALLIANCE$753,358
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$568,080
ALEXIAN BROTHERS$522,485
GREATER FAMILY HEALTH$513,619
CENTER ON HALSTED$422,241
LAKE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$392,396
OPEN DOOR CLINIC$392,088
ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$375,570
INNER VOICE INC$372,999
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF U OF I$354,100
TEST POSITIVE AWARE NETWORK$321,749
HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER$318,889
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $54k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $52k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $52k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $44k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $34k → 8%PROJECT VIDA: $97k → 14%PROJECT VIDA: $70k → 14%PROJECT VIDA: $52k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $550k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $489k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $422k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $416k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $372k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $181k → 14%ASIAN HUMAN SERVICES: $214k → 14%ASIAN HUMAN SERVICES: $190k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $74k → 14%ASIAN HUMAN SERVICES: $72k → 14%ASIAN HUMAN SERVICES: $49k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $41k → 14%ASIAN HUMAN SERVICES: $35k → 14%CORAZON COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 14%FEATHERFIST: $115k → 14%FEATHERFIST: $101k → 14%FEATHERFIST: $40k → 14%INNER VOICE INC: $373k → 14%INNER VOICE INC: $41k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $660k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $484k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $290k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $30k → 14%CHICAGO BLACK GAY MEN'S CAUCUS: $20k → 14%CHICAGO BLACK GAY MENS CAUCUS: $14k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $107k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $92k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $85k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $70k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES: $671k → 14%CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $68k → 14%CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $62k → 14%CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $61k → 14%CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $61k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $57k → 14%CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $56k → 14%CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $52k → 14%CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $51k → 14%CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $38k → 14%COOK COUNTY HIV INTEGRATED PROGRAMS: $21k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$164M · 68 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
30

Total granted

$164M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+25%

Still filing today

85%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    Center for Housing and Health
    9× · 2017–2025 · $64M · revenue +670% · 53% of their budget
  • CH
    CHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.8M · revenue +237%
  • CC
    Christian Community Health Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • A
    ALPHAWOOD
    one grant, 2021 · $350k
  • LC
    LAKE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $289k
  • VB
    VITAL BRIDGES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $263k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
2
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.

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3
Center for Comprehensive Health Practice Inc

The center for comprehensive health practice, inc. provides accessible, community-based treatment that integrates primary healthcare with substance use and behavioral health services for all children, adolescents, adults, and families…

Health
4
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
5
Sinai Health System

Sinai health system's mission is to improve the health of the individuals and communities it serves.

Health
6
Detroit Community Health Connection

Dchc is a primary care organization committed to providing accessible, affordable and quality service to all members of the communities we serve.

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7
Holy Cross Hospital

The hospital is a catholic health care organization sponsored by the sisters of st. casimir. by our commitment to witness to the healing mission of jesus, we contribute to healthy communities and promote quality health care to all with…

Health
8
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
9
Chicago Women's Health Center

The organization is committed to the mission of facilitating the empowerment of women, trans people, and young people by providing access to health care and health education in a respectful environment where people pay what they can afford.

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10
Presence Behavioral Health

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
11
Lowell Community Health Center Inc

Lowell community health center's mission is to provide caring, quality, and culturally competent health services to the people of greater lowell, regardless of their financial status; to reduce health disparities and enhance the health of…

Health
12
Swedish Covenant Health

Swedish Covenant Health follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tca Health Inc; the most unlike its peers is Proactive Community Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 100 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
65/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Center for Housing and Health: $64,356,715 · Housing & ShelterCenter for Housing and Health+8 more: $6,108,315 · Housing & Shelter+8 moreTHE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE: $20,257,525 · HealthTHE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINECHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $7,806,534 · HealthCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AG…OPEN DOOR CLINIC OF GREATER ELGIN: $5,210,802 · HealthOPEN DOOR CLINIC OF GREATER ELGINUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $3,523,728 · HealthUniversity of Chicago Medical Cen…HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $3,189,802 · HealthHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTHErie Family Health Center Inc: $2,778,792 · HealthErie Family Health Center IncGREATER FAMILY HEALTH: $2,440,039 · Health+17 more: $3,610,161 · Health+17 moreAlexian Brothers Bonaventure House: $4,771,672 · OtherAlexian Brothers Bona…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $4,492,591 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES…MOTHER AND CHILD ALLIANCE: $4,410,881 · OtherMOTHER AND CHILD ALLI…Howard Brown Health Center: $2,529,682 · OtherHoward Brown Health C…Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $2,514,357 · OtherCatholic Charities of…MOUNT SINAI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,505,987 · OtherMOUNT SINAI COMMUNITY…LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER: $1,796,357 · OtherLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HE…SOUTH SIDE HELP CENTER INC: $1,245,557 · Other+35 more: $6,583,485 · Other+35 moreCenter on Halsted: $2,544,513 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $2,135,336 · Human ServicesASIAN HUMAN SERVICES: $561,369 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $449,718 · Human ServicesFACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $423,981 · Human ServicesThe Inner Voice Inc: $414,279 · Human ServicesFEATHERFIST: $256,598 · Human Services+8 more: $590,203 · Human ServicesChristian Community Health Center: $4,603,035 · PhilanthropySeason of Concern: $175,339 · PhilanthropyAGAPE MISSIONS NFP: $1,710,864 · ReligionMEN & WOMEN IN PRISON MINISTRIES: $823,927 · ReligionPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $218,997 · EducationTrustees for Harvard University: $140,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $24,690 · EducationMEDICAL ORGANIZATION FOR LATINO ADVANCEMENT: $20,000 · Education
Housing & Shelter$70,465,030Health$48,817,383Other$30,850,569Human Services$7,375,997Philanthropy$4,778,374Religion$2,534,791Education$428,687

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Housing and Health: $64,356,715 over 9y, 53% of budgetTHE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE: $20,257,525 over 9y, 9.7% of budgetCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $7,806,534 over 9y, 13% of budgetOPEN DOOR CLINIC OF GREATER ELGIN: $5,210,802 over 9y, 28% of budgetAlexian Brothers Bonaventure House: $4,771,672 over 9y, 20% of budgetChristian Community Health Center: $4,603,035 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $3,523,728 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $3,189,802 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc: $2,778,792 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $2,544,513 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $2,529,682 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $2,514,357 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT SINAI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,505,987 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER FAMILY HEALTH: $2,440,039 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $2,168,803 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetHEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $2,135,336 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER: $1,796,357 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAGAPE MISSIONS NFP: $1,710,864 over 9y, 46% of budgetMICHAEL REESE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,594,073 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC: $1,418,508 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTH SIDE HELP CENTER INC: $1,245,557 over 9y, 10% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $1,146,685 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetLegal Council for Health Justice: $972,975 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetMEN & WOMEN IN PRISON MINISTRIES: $823,927 over 9y, 24% of budgetPROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $821,708 over 4y, 17% of budgetMcDermott Center: $759,517 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN HUMAN SERVICES: $561,369 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $449,718 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetFACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $423,981 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES: $419,191 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetLife is Work: $416,839 over 4y, 21% of budgetThe Inner Voice Inc: $414,279 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $403,696 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $368,075 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNorthwestern University: $350,497 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS: $337,236 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO WOMEN'S AIDS PROJECT: $332,143 over 6y, 64% of budgetLEGAL AID CHICAGO: $310,906 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $297,704 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $258,392 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFEATHERFIST: $256,598 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $235,757 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $225,990 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Area Community Center: $220,150 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $218,997 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCHICAGO FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $192,059 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSeason of Concern: $175,339 over 6y, 14% of budgetTASKFORCE PREVENTION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $151,077 over 3y, 2.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Center for Housing and Health ↗
  • Who funds THE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR CLINIC OF GREATER ELGIN ↗
  • Who funds Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House ↗
  • Who funds Christian Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
  • Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER FAMILY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AGAPE MISSIONS NFP ↗
  • Who funds MICHAEL REESE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SIDE HELP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
  • Who funds Legal Council for Health Justice ↗
  • Who funds MEN & WOMEN IN PRISON MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds PROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds McDermott Center ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Life is Work ↗
  • Who funds The Inner Voice Inc ↗
  • Who funds PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL78.5× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Pritzker Family Foundation · Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Center for Housing and Health

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization AIDS Foundation of Chicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from AIDS Foundation of Chicago. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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