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Boger Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
86
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$392k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.9MEducation$1.7MArts & Culture$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.4MScience & Tech$1.2MCivil Rights$947kEnvironment$768kYouth Development$628kOther$0
02FY2025 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k56 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
$25,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$392,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$310,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$260,000
POSSIBLE ZONE$250,000
X-PRIZE FOUNDATION$215,000
OUR GENERATION SPEAKSBRANDEIS U$200,000
YOUNG ACHIEVERS FOUNDATION GHANA INC$180,000
ACLU FOUNDATION MA$160,000
GMHC$102,000
JALSA$85,000
BEYOND CELIAC$80,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC$75,000
LONGY SCHOOL OF MUSIC$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
MASSCHALLENGE$60,000
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 (FY20–25, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $5k → 16%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $10k → 7%REFORMED CHURCH OF HIGHLAND PARK AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION: $20k → 8%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE: $10k → 20%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $25k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $10k → 7%REFORMED CHURCH OF HIGHLAND PARK AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION: $10k → 8%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $5k → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $5k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT: $25k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT: $25k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT: $25k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT: $25k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT: $25k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT: $25k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MA: $10k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MA: $10k → 16%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

NH
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 117 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

117 repeat relationships: 75 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
36

Total granted

$18M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
EnvironmentEducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +36%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +13%
  • GM
    GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $572k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue +31%
  • JS
    J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +24%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · 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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
3
Boston Architectural College

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

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4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International
8
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
9
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
10
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
11
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
12
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sentencing Project; the most unlike its peers is Fort Point Arts Community Inc. 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

130 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. 130 of the 166 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/130
Grantees still filing
85/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,808,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACLU FOUNDATION MA: $840,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION MAOUR GENERATION SPEAKSBRANDEIS U: $750,000 · OtherOUR GENERATION SPEAKSBRANDEIS UHASTINGS CENTER FOR BIOETHICS: $663,000 · OtherHASTINGS CENTER FOR BIOETHICS+94 more: $6,568,150 · Other+94 moreMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $1,120,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENC…THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $750,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA…BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $565,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACAD…FORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY INC: $120,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $277,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1,545,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIV…THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC: $345,000 · EducationTHE POSSIBLE …VOTER CHOICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $150,000 · EducationVOTER CHOICE …RANK THE VOTE INC: $100,000 · Education+9 more: $297,500 · Education+9 moreGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $572,000 · HealthBEYOND CELIAC: $190,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $125,000 · HealthFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $110,000 · HealthLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $58,100 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $45,650 · Health+6 more: $150,000 · HealthEARTHJUSTICE: $175,000 · EnvironmentCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $105,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $100,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $65,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Environment350ORG: $50,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc: $45,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $45,000 · Environment+5 more: $52,500 · EnvironmentMASSCHALLENGE INC: $450,000 · Community ImprovementIDEAS IN ACTION INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $120,000 · InternationalPATH: $90,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $80,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $60,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $37,500 · InternationalPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $30,000 · InternationalASHOKA: $30,000 · InternationalRELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · International+5 more: $47,500 · International
Other$11,629,150Arts & Culture$2,832,000Education$2,437,500Health$1,250,750Environment$732,500Community Improvement$515,000International$515,000

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 budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1,545,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $1,120,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $572,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $565,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetMASSCHALLENGE INC: $450,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC: $345,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC: $265,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $210,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND CELIAC: $190,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR BUSINESS LEADERSHIP INC: $185,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVOTER CHOICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $150,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $150,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $130,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJustice For Our Neighbors of The Delaware Valley Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetFORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY INC: $120,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE: $108,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $100,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetRANK THE VOTE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPATH: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRUB STREET INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM INC: $77,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ABLEGAMERS FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $65,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEHI INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGovernment Accountability Project: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMuseum of African American History Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $58,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 5y, 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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSCHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND CELIAC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR BUSINESS LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds VOTER CHOICE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Justice For Our Neighbors of The Delaware Valley Inc ↗
  • Who funds FORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA39× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · The Klarman Family Foundation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Barr 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 Boger Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boger Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Museum of African American History Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated: 22% of income from government
  • Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated: 16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Masschallenge Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Montgomery: 3% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mudflat Pottery School Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Possible Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
19report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Boger Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 166 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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