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Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$315k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.9MHealth$1.4MRecreation & Sports$720kEducation$696kInternational$675kReligion$442kArts & Culture$299kYouth Development$288kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $510k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $445k
  • $250k+1 grant · $315k
$12,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON$315,000
FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES$108,000
US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF BROWARD COUNTY$87,000
DCAC$75,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$75,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY HILLEL$49,002
BULLIS SCHOOL$46,000
JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION$40,000
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$35,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$33,000
WRESTLE LIKE A GIRL$29,100
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MIAMI JEWISH HEALTH$25,000
SHABACH$25,000
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 (FY20–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%POZEZ JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF N VA: $29k → 6%POZEZ JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF N VA: $10k → 6%NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION: $1k → 9%DAVID POSNACK JCC: $8k → 13%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15k → 8%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK: $5k → 14%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $8k → 8%SULAM: $15k → 8%SULAM: $5k → 8%SULAM: $5k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $13k → 8%RAINBOW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 8%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $11k → 14%NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 8%DRIVEN TO CURE: $3k → 8%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $5k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
LA
AL
TX
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 80 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
91

Total granted

$4.3M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+21%

Still filing today

73%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $343k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    4× · 2020–2023 · $274k · revenue +42%
  • AU
    American University Hillel Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $184k · revenue +87%
  • MY
    MONTGOMERY YOUTH WRESTLING LEAGUE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $182k · revenue +81% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • JT
    JDRF T1D FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • CR
    CROSSROADS - RIDE FOR KIDS
    one grant, 2022 · $125k
  • BT
    BEAT THE STREETS
    one grant, 2021 · $55k
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
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
2
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
3
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

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4
Hillel At the George Washington University Inc

The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…

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5
Ronald C Wornick Jewish Day School

Ronald c. wornick jewish day school develops students who are socially and academically prepared to meet their full potential as engaged leaders committed to a life steeped in jewish ethics and values.

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6
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
7
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
8
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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11
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
12
Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life At University of Md

Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wrestling to Beat the Streets Dc. 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

123 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. 123 of the 193 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/123
Grantees still filing
88/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF BROWARD COUNTY: $408,591 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF BROWARD COUNTYJDRF T1D FUND: $250,000 · OtherJDRF T1D FUNDMIAMI JEWISH HEALTH: $192,809 · OtherMIAMI JEWISH HEALTHAmerican University Hillel Inc: $183,800 · OtherAmerican University Hillel IncAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND: $176,250 · OtherWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER - MEDSTAR: $150,000 · OtherCROSSROADS - RIDE FOR KIDS: $125,000 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY INC: $135,000 · Other+110 more: $1,800,627 · Other+110 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,158,750 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION …GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $157,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER MIAMI JEWISH F…+6 more: $120,209 · Philanthropy+6 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $273,982 · HealthBREAKTHRO…MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $84,750 · HealthMOUNT SIN…HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $47,500 · HealthHEBREW HO…FOOD & FRIENDS INC: $37,500 · HealthFOOD & FR…DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $28,774 · Health+12 more: $114,816 · Health+12 moreBULLIS SCHOOL: $162,000 · EducationCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $65,500 · EducationTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $50,870 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $37,500 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $33,000 · EducationKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $25,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $20,000 · Education+16 more: $96,840 · EducationMONTGOMERY YOUTH WRESTLING LEAGUE INC: $182,000 · Recreation & SportsDCAC INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsWrestle Like a Girl Inc: $124,102 · Recreation & SportsTERRAPIN WRESTLING CLUB INC: $35,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more: $23,800 · Recreation & SportsFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $175,500 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $21,100 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $20,000 · International+6 more: $27,500 · InternationalThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100,000 · Arts & CultureJOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureOHR HATZAFUN PRODUCTIONS D/B/A HIDDEN LIGHT INSTITUTE: $37,500 · Arts & CultureADVENTURE THEATRE INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $12,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,422,077Philanthropy$1,436,459Health$587,322Education$535,710Recreation & Sports$514,902International$394,100Arts & Culture$212,500

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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,158,750 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $273,982 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican University Hillel Inc: $183,800 over 5y, 20% of budgetMONTGOMERY YOUTH WRESTLING LEAGUE INC: $182,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $175,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBULLIS SCHOOL: $162,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $157,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDCAC INC: $150,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWrestle Like a Girl Inc: $124,102 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $87,722 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $84,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $68,010 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $65,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH CAMP AND CONFERENCE SERVICE INC: $57,709 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $50,870 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConservancy Guardians USA Fund Inc: $40,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetJOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $39,623 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $39,291 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOHR HATZAFUN PRODUCTIONS D/B/A HIDDEN LIGHT INSTITUTE: $37,500 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $37,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $37,188 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTERRAPIN WRESTLING CLUB INC: $35,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetGirl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital: $33,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $33,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $31,836 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $28,774 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSulam Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetATHLETES FOR HOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShelter House Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriendship Place: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCongressional School Inc: $21,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $21,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $21,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADVENTIST HEALTHCARE INC: $18,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds American University Hillel Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY YOUTH WRESTLING LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
  • Who funds BULLIS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DCAC INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Wrestle Like a Girl Inc ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH CAMP AND CONFERENCE SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Conservancy Guardians USA Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds OHR HATZAFUN PRODUCTIONS D/B/A HIDDEN LIGHT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗

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.

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC45.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Duber Family Foundation · Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc

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 Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
  • Joshua M Freeman Foundation: 20% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Centers of South Broward Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Complete Player Charity Ltd: 6% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Montgomery: 3% of income from government
  • The Torah School of Greater Washington Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Adventure Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Adventist Healthcare Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
23report 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 193 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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