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Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$963k
Granted FY2026still arriving
80
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$210k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$692kHealth$623kHuman Services$605kHousing & Shelter$463kReligion$411kCommunity Improvement$165kYouth Development$165kOther$0
02FY2026 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k55 grants · $215k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $323k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $425k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDWAY VILLAGE AND MUSEUM CENTER$210,000
MOSAIC$110,000
YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY$105,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
SALVATION ARMY$22,500
GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION$16,500
BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN$13,500
ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION$12,500
ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY$12,500
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE$12,500
FAMILY PEACE CENTER$12,500
ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES$12,500
SWEDISHAMERICAN FOUNDATION$12,500
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 (FY18–26, $693k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $13k → 15%BRIGHTPOINT: $5k → 14%BRIGHTPOINT: $5k → 14%MILESTONE INC: $5k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $5k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $5k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $5k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $5k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $5k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $5k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $5k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $5k → 15%FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $13k → 15%FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $10k → 15%FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $10k → 15%FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $10k → 15%WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA: $8k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $8k → 15%WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA: $5k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $5k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $5k → 15%WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA: $5k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $5k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $5k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $5k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $5k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $5k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $5k → 15%LAURENT FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%LAURENT FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 15%LAURENT FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 15%LAURENT FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 15%LAURENT FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 15%LAURENT FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $105k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $105k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $45k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $25k → 15%CARPENTERS PLACE: $15k → 15%CARPENTERS PLACE: $13k → 15%CARPENTERS PLACE: $11k → 15%SEVENTH STREET COFFEE INC: $10k → 15%CARPENTERS PLACE: $10k → 15%CARPENTERS PLACE: $10k → 15%CARPENTERS PLACE: $10k → 15%CARPENTERS PLACE: $10k → 15%CARPENTERS PLACE: $10k → 15%CARPENTERS PLACE: $10k → 15%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.
$5.7M · 89 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

89 repeat relationships: 78 still active in FY2026, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
14

Total granted

$5.7M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+37%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MV
    MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER
    9× · 2018–2026 · $490k · revenue +38%
  • M
    MOSAIC
    9× · 2018–2026 · $350k · revenue +74%
  • YO
    YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY
    9× · 2018–2026 · $305k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • RW
    ROCKFORD WOMAN'S CLUB
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -23%
  • RI
    ROSECRANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • WW
    WESLEY WILLOWS
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
2
Rockford Day Nursery

It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.

Human Services
3
The Rockford Institute

To provide analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…

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4
Rockford Christian Education Association

To challenge young people to know christ as lord, apply god's truth in all areas of life, love others sacrifically, and achieve the highest level of knowledge and skill in order to serve god and others

Education
5
Rockford Area Economic Development Council Inc

The rockford area economic development council cultivates opportunities for primary job growth that increase the economic well-being of our region

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6
Rockford Regional Health Council

Rockford regional health council is a not-for-profit social service corporation organized under the laws of the state of illinois for the purpose of improving community health through data gatering and analysis, education and advocacy.

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7
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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8
Racine County Opportunity Center

Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…

Human Services
9
Rimland Services Nfp

Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.

Human Services
10
Rockford Sexual Assault Counseling Inc

Rockford sexual assault counseling, inc. (rsac) responds to the needs of victims of sexual assault/abuse and their families/significant others through emergency services, emotional support, counseling, referral, advocacy, and education,…

Health
11
Rockford Municipal Employees Credit Union

Our purpose is to provide financial services to our members with competitive rates while maintaining our financial stability.

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12
Rockford Community Investment Fund

To support housing and community development ventures

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Nielsen Chorale. 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

70 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. 70 of the 106 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
48/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $195,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $145,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISIndividual grant recipient: $135,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $126,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $102,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherSwedishAmerican Health Foundation: $97,500 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF: $95,000 · OtherSOUNDS OF GOOD NEWS INC: $90,000 · OtherTRANSFORM ROCKFORD: $100,000 · OtherZION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $90,500 · Other+50 more: $1,229,266 · Other+50 moreROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $305,000 · EducationROCK VALLEY COLLEGE…ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationROCKFORD UNIVERSITYROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $210,000 · EducationROCKFORD RESCUE MIS…AUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $202,500 · EducationAUGUSTANA COLLEGEALIGNMENT ROCKFORD: $45,000 · Education+2 more: $15,000 · EducationMIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER: $490,000 · Arts & CultureMIDWAY VILLAGE …ROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureROCKFORD SYMPHO…FRIENDS OF THE CORONADO: $63,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE …DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CENTE…ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $37,500 · Arts & CultureROCKFORD DANCE COMPANY: $34,000 · Arts & CultureROCKFORD ART MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $8,500 · Arts & CultureYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $305,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF ROCK …CARPENTER'S PLACE INC: $98,000 · Human ServicesCARPENTER'S P…LAURENT HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLAURENT HOUSE…BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $47,500 · Human ServicesBARBARA OLSON…MILESTONE INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesMILESTONE INCFAMILY PEACE CENTER: $42,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PEACE …CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $33,000 · Human ServicesWINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA: $32,500 · Human Services+3 more: $39,500 · Human Services+3 moreMOSAIC: $350,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES: $28,500 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR SIGHT & HEARING: $70,000 · HealthREMEDIES RENEWING LIVES: $60,000 · HealthOSF Healthcare System: $27,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $24,116 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $22,500 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $21,000 · HealthROCKFORD ALLIANCE AGAINST SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: $15,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $8,000 · HealthROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $82,500 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of Northern IL: $58,000 · PhilanthropyCRUSADERS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyNikolas Ritschel Foundation: $12,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$2,505,766Education$1,027,500Arts & Culture$808,000Human Services$693,000Housing & Shelter$390,500Health$257,616Philanthropy$205,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER: $490,000 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetMOSAIC: $350,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $305,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $305,000 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetROCKFORD UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $210,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $202,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $126,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTRANSFORM ROCKFORD: $100,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetCARPENTER'S PLACE INC: $98,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSwedishAmerican Health Foundation: $97,500 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetZION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $90,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $90,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $82,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetREGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC: $77,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR SIGHT & HEARING: $70,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetKIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC: $67,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CORONADO: $63,000 over 9y, 9.9% of budgetREMEDIES RENEWING LIVES: $60,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $60,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northern IL: $58,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC: $55,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetYESHUA CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSTATELINE YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCRUSADERS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetLAURENT HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetBARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $47,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMILESTONE INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS GROWTH ENTERPRISES: $45,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetALIGNMENT ROCKFORD: $45,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetFAMILY PEACE CENTER: $42,500 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetSouth Pointe Youth for Christ: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetANDERSON GARDENS: $40,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $37,500 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetROCKFORD DANCE COMPANY: $34,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $33,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA: $32,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetKFACT INC KEEPING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $30,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetROCKFORD ART MUSEUM: $30,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES: $28,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetOSF Healthcare System: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROY GAYLE PONY BASEBALL SOFTBALL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetROCKFORD WOMAN'S CLUB: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $24,116 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES: $22,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $22,000 over 5y, 0.6% 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 MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MOSAIC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING ↗
  • Who funds TRANSFORM ROCKFORD ↗
  • Who funds CARPENTER'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds SwedishAmerican Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ZION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR SIGHT & HEARING ↗
  • Who funds KIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CORONADO ↗
  • Who funds REMEDIES RENEWING LIVES ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Northern IL ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHUA CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds STATELINE YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds CRUSADERS HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAURENT HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MILESTONE INC ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS GROWTH ENTERPRISES ↗

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.

Community Foundation of Northern ILIL97.5× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · Blazer Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · Guy Reno Family Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · Rydell Family Foundation

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 Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 106 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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