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· Private foundation

Albert and Helen Meserve Mem Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$215k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$421kHealth$210kHuman Services$131kFood & Nutrition$89kYouth Development$43kArts & Culture$39kCrime & Legal$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $130k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD$20,000
REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF$12,500
ANNS PLACE INC$12,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF WESTERN CT I$10,000
CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE$10,000
HILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC$10,000
FILLING IN THE BLANKS$8,000
FAMILY CHILDRENS AID INC$7,500
DANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY$7,500
DANBURY YOUTH SERVICES INC$5,000
UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNEC$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD$5,000
LAUNDRY LOVE OF GREATER DANBURY$4,000
MEALS ON WHEELS FOR RIDGEFIELD$4,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVIC: $4k → 11%THE WHEELS PROGRAM OF GREATER NEW: $3k → 9%CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVIC: $4k → 11%THE WHEELS PROGRAM OF GREATER NEW: $3k → 9%THE WHEELS PROGRAM OF GREATER NEW MILFOR: $3k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $8k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $8k → 9%ANNS PLACE INC: $13k → 9%ANN'S PLACE INC: $13k → 9%ANNS PLACE INC: $10k → 9%ANNS PLACE INC: $10k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AID INC: $8k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AID INC: $8k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AID INC: $8k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AID INC: $5k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AID INC: $5k → 9%ASSOCIATION OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN: $4k → 9%NEWTOWN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $4k → 9%RIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD INC: $3k → 9%RIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD INC: $3k → 9%RIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD INC: $3k → 9%RIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD INC: $3k → 9%FOUNDERS HALL FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 9%FOUNDERS HALL FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
MD
NC
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$729k · 48 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
93

Total granted

$729k
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+18%

Still filing today

58%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AP
    ANNS PLACE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +75%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +46%
  • FA
    FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • WC
    WESTERN CONNECTICUT ST UNIV FBO
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
  • RY
    REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +14%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
Connecticut College

Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.

Education
4
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
5
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
6
Quinnipiac University

To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…

Education
7
Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
10
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
11
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
12
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Ridgefield Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDiverse Mission Organizatio…Family Philanthropic Founda…Public Library SupportDisability Services & Advoc…Community Theater & Perform…Labor Unions & Professional…Performing Arts Organizatio…Child Welfare & Family Serv…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr20%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr20%31%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
10%
2,154/22,382

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 154 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
43/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $53,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc — $39,500 · OtherThe Center For Empowerment And Education IncCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $30,000 · OtherREGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF W CT — $28,000 · OtherREGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF — $27,500 · OtherREGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTER — $26,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — $24,770 · OtherWESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY — $21,770 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS — $20,000 · OtherDANBURY YOUTH SERVICES — $19,500 · Other+96 more — $256,240 · Other+96 moreANNS PLACE INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesANNS PLACE INCFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC — $32,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S …FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE BLANKS …RIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesRIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD I…Founders Hall Foundation Inc — $13,500 · Human ServicesFounders Hall Foundati…CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTICUT ASSOCIATIO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE WHEELS PROGRAM OF GREATER NEW MILFORD INC — $9,000 · Human Services+3 more — $14,250 · Human Services+3 moreDANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY INC — $12,500 · EducationDANBURY GRA…DANBURY SCHOOL & BUSINESS COLLABORATIVE — $12,000 · EducationDANBURY SCH…EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC — $11,670 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDL…Trustees of Dartmouth College — $6,520 · EducationTrustees of…GORDON COLLEGE — $5,500 · EducationGORDON COLL…SKIDMORE COLLEGE — $5,500 · EducationSKIDMORE CO…STONEHILL COLLEGE INC — $5,500 · EducationSTONEHILL C…MARIST UNIVERSITY — $3,500 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $3,500 · Education+17 more — $34,130 · Education+17 moreHILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD INC — $18,000 · Food & NutritionDanbury Music Centre — $13,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC — $9,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICALS AT RICHTER INC — $3,200 · Arts & CultureACT OF CONNECTICUT — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureDANBURY POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$571,280Human Services$190,250Education$100,320Food & Nutrition$43,000Arts & Culture$38,700Youth Development$15,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANNS PLACE INC — $70,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $53,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc — $39,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC — $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDANBURY YOUTH SERVICES — $19,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD INC — $18,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDANBURY POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD INC — $14,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetFounders Hall Foundation Inc — $13,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDanbury Music Centre — $13,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLITTLE BRITCHES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $12,750 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDANBURY SCHOOL & BUSINESS COLLABORATIVE — $12,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC — $11,670 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT — $10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WHEELS PROGRAM OF GREATER NEW MILFORD INC — $9,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetEASTER SEAL REHABILITATION CENTER OF GREATER WATERBURY INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $6,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $6,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF NEW MILFORD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWTOWN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $4,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWestern Connecticut Assoc for Human Rights INC — $4,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetAssociation of Religious Communities Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICALS AT RICHTER INC — $3,200 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $2,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACT OF CONNECTICUT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN — $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation IncCT51.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Robert G and Marguerite M Derx Foundation · The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation · Synchrony Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Albert and Helen Meserve Mem Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • The Wheels Program of Greater New Milford Inc65% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc42% of income from government
  • Rides for Ridgefield Inc39% of income from government
  • Newtown Youth & Family Services Inc37% of income from government
  • Family and Children's Aid Inc36% of income from government
  • Danbury Youth Services29% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Connecticut14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
  • Ridgefield Historical Society Inc7% of income from government
  • The Children's Center of New Milford Inc7% of income from government
  • Association of Religious Communities Inc6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc5% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc3% of income from government
  • Babson College3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College3% of income from government
  • University of New Haven2% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College1% of income from government
  • American International College1% of income from government
  • Danbury Music Centre1% of income from government
  • Act of Connecticut1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated1% of income from government
  • Barry University Inc1% of income from government
  • Gordon College1% of income from government
  • Assumption University0% of income from government
  • Little Britches Therapeutic Riding Inc0% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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