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Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc

Alliance for open society international, inc.

$15M
Granted FY2021
53
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$1.2M
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to New Venture Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc named its own grantees at scale: 53 organizations, $11M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’20
53
’21
62
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$13MHuman Services$4.1MHealth$4.0MEducation$3.2MCrime & Legal$2.7MCommunity Improvement$2.4MEmployment$1.7MInternational$1.3MOther$0
02FY2021 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 53 grants below total $11,231,864, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,205,179 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,973,315 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 · FY2021

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $255k
  • $50k–250k32 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+12 grants · $8.1M
$93,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC$1,172,000
FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC$926,000
URBAN STRATEGIES INC$892,000
ELEV8 BALTIMORE INC$825,000
CASA DE MARYLAND$765,000
BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORPORATION$685,000
JOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC$565,000
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE$540,000
BON SECOURS OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC DBA BON S$485,000
ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC$485,000
CITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE$485,000
BALTIMORE CORPS INC$275,000
MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK$239,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE$170,000
CENTER FOR WORKFORCE INCLUSION$150,000
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 (FY20–23, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $892k → 21%THE BLACK MALE YOGA INITIATIVE INC: $50k → 6%CITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE: $485k → 6%CENTER FOR WORKFORCE INCLUSION: $250k → 8%CENTER FOR WORKFORCE INCLUSION: $150k → 8%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL MARYLA: $60k → 11%THE MOVEMENT TEAM: $50k → 19%MANDALA ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $125k → 11%DANIEL CARL TORSCH FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%DANIEL CARL TORSCH FOUNDATION: $70k → 11%BALTIMORE ACTION LEGAL TEAM: $250k → 19%CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY: $93k → 14%POWER INSIDE INC: $150k → 19%POWER INSIDE INC: $50k → 19%TURNAROUND TUESDAY INC: $50k → 19%BON SECOURS OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC DBA BON S: $485k → 19%LIGHT OF TRUTH CENTER INC: $160k → 19%LIGHT OF TRUTH CENTER INC: $100k → 19%LIGHT OF TRUTH CENTER INC: $75k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $1.2M → 19%BALTIMORE SAFE HAVEN: $150k → 19%BALTIMORE SAFE HAVEN: $140k → 19%YOUTH EMPOWERED SOCIETY: $75k → 19%YOUTH EMPOWERED SOCIETY: $50k → 19%FRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $50k → 19%ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $485k → 19%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

NY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 32% of Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 5% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 1%.

Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 28 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
2

Total granted

$12M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+42%

Still filing today

93%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • CASA INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +54%
  • MP
    MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK
    3× · 2021–2023 · $914k · revenue +46%
  • E
    ELEV8BALTIMOREINC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $850k · revenue +785% · 81% of their budget

Funded once

  • SC
    STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +42%
  • BF
    BALTIMOREANS FOR TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE LAW E
    one grant, 2020 · $65k
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
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International
2
Community Mediation Program Inc

To provide free mediation services in the baltimore metropolitan area for the purposes of reducing interpersonal and community violence. the program also provides community education and conflict resolution training.

Human Services
3
Metropolitan Baltimore Council of Afl-Cio Unions

The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.

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4
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
5
Maryland Black Caucus Foundati

To educate the community on the adverse conditions under which they are living and propose various methods of alleviating conditions by conducting public forums and publishing studies.

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6
Maryland New Directions Inc

Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.

Health
7
Community Mediation Maryland Inc

To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.

Crime & Legal
8
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…

Community Improvement
9
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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10
Community Development Network of Maryland Inc

To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.

Community Improvement
11
Civil Justice Inc

Civil justice is a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding legal services for low and moderate-income marylanders facing life-altering legal issues, using innovative solutions that create positive change.

Crime & Legal
12
Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Movement Team. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/102
Grantees still filing
59/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW VENTURE FUND: $11,847,562 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $1,172,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR URBAN F…URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $892,000 · Human ServicesURBAN STRATEGIES I…ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $485,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CATHOLI…CITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE INC: $485,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF REFUGE BAL…Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: $485,000 · Human ServicesBon Secours Baltim…CWI WORKS INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesCWI WORKS INCLIGHT OF TRUTH CENTER INC: $335,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF TRUTH CEN…Baltimore Safe Haven Corp: $290,000 · Human ServicesBaltimore Action Legal Team Inc: $250,000 · Human ServicesPOWER INSIDE INC: $200,000 · Human Services+9 more: $748,000 · Human Services+9 moreFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,186,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PART…BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP: $710,000 · Community ImprovementBANNER NEIG…NO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $410,000 · Community ImprovementNO BOUNDARI…BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS MARYLAND INC: $220,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESS VO…Shes Well Networked Inc: $175,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $40,000 · Community ImprovementCASA INC: $1,015,000 · OtherCASA INCMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $914,000 · OtherMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETW…NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ALCOHOLISM & DRUG: $320,000 · OtherPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $320,000 · OtherBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $300,000 · OtherToo Young to Wed Inc: $320,998 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC: $350,000 · Other+38 more: $4,762,425 · Other+38 moreELEV8BALTIMOREINC: $850,000 · EducationELEV8BALT…FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $699,000 · EducationFUND FOR …PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC: $350,000 · EducationPROGRESSI…JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC: $286,207 · EducationJOURNALIS…Yale University: $199,998 · EducationYale Univ…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 · EducationBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Education+5 more: $389,864 · Education+5 moreRESTORATIVE RESPONSE BALTIMORE INC: $350,000 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC: $300,000 · Crime & LegalOUT For JUSTICE INC: $250,000 · Crime & LegalJustice Policy Institute: $225,000 · Crime & LegalTHE ASSOC FOR THE PUBLIC DEFENDER OF MARYLAND LTD: $175,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH: $75,000 · Crime & LegalFREESTATE JUSTICE INC: $60,000 · Crime & LegalDisability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc: $50,000 · Crime & LegalJOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC: $815,000 · EmploymentBALTIMORE CORPS INC: $275,000 · EmploymentBUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTRE: $150,000 · Employment
Environment$11,847,562Human Services$5,742,000Community Improvement$3,741,000Other$8,302,423Education$3,045,069Crime & Legal$1,485,000Employment$1,240,000

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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $11,847,562 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,186,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $1,172,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCASA INC: $1,015,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $914,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetURBAN STRATEGIES INC: $892,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetELEV8BALTIMOREINC: $850,000 over 2y, 81% of budgetJOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC: $815,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetBANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP: $710,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $699,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $485,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE INC: $485,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: $485,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $410,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCWI WORKS INC: $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRESTORATIVE RESPONSE BALTIMORE INC: $350,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC: $350,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC: $350,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetLIGHT OF TRUTH CENTER INC: $335,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetToo Young to Wed Inc: $320,998 over 2y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF ALCOHOLISM & DRUG: $320,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $320,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC: $300,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $300,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBaltimore Safe Haven Corp: $290,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetJOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC: $286,207 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBALTIMORE CORPS INC: $275,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCHARM CITY CARE CONNECTION INC: $265,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetOUT For JUSTICE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetORGANIZING BLACK INC: $250,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetBaltimore Action Legal Team Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetJustice Policy Institute: $225,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND: $225,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetBUSINESS VOLUNTEERS MARYLAND INC: $220,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetBMORE EMPOWERED INC: $215,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetBALTIMORE BEAT INC: $200,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $200,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetPOWER INSIDE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetRAZOM INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetBALTIMORE HARM REDUCTION COALITION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetYale University: $199,998 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $180,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ASSOC FOR THE PUBLIC DEFENDER OF MARYLAND LTD: $175,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTRE: $150,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWITNESS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBLACK GIRLS VOTE 4 HER INC: $150,000 over 2y, 19% 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.

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.

Foundation to Promote Open SocietyNY87.4× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Abell Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein 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 Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Cwi Works Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Civic Works Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Baltimore Healthy Start Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Baltimore Safe Haven Corp: 28% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Baltimore Corps Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Voices of Hope Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp: 6% of income from government
  • Public Justice Center Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Restorative Response Baltimore Inc: 4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Wide Angle Youth Media Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Digital Harbor Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Franciscan Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Holistic Life Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 94 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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