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Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
166
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$394k
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 FY20202024.

Education$10MCommunity Improvement$9.6MYouth Development$3.5MArts & Culture$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.1MInternational$1.1MScience & Tech$1.0MPublic Benefit$981kOther$0
02FY2024 · 166 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $200k
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $728k
$20,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$203M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOUNCE INNOVATION HUB$393,500
JUMPSTART INC$334,000
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$212,500
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$204,000
WESTERN RESERVE COMMUNITY FUND$200,000
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$180,750
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$180,000
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC$171,600
FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO$170,000
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$157,500
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$151,500
JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY$145,000
BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY$140,000
PRESIDENTS' COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC$135,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO$135,000
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 (FY20–24, $520k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AVIVA (SARASOTA-MANATEE JEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL): $1k → 9%The Relatives: $5k → 10%The Night Ministry: $10k → 14%Rebuilding Together Northeast Ohio: $14k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $2k → 16%SEALKIDS: $50k → 15%SEALKIDS: $10k → 15%Healthnetwork Foundation: $25k → 17%Healthnetwork Foundation: $10k → 17%Healthnetwork Foundation: $10k → 17%Family & Community Services Inc: $31k → 12%Family & Community Services Inc: $23k → 12%Family & Community Services Inc: $20k → 12%Renaissance Family Center of Windham Ohio: $10k → 12%FARE-CLE COMMUNITY FUND INC: $300 → 17%Senior Transportation Connection of Cuyahoga County: $5k → 17%Building for Tomorrow: $20k → 13%Asian Services in Action Inc: $20k → 13%Akron Urban League: $20k → 13%Akron Urban League: $1k → 13%Akron Urban League: $1k → 13%Project Ujima: $20k → 13%PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 17%GENDERSPHERE: $13k → 17%Project Ujima: $1k → 13%International Institute of Akron: $30k → 13%CHAIR-ITY INC: $13k → 17%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $25k → 13%International Institute of Akron: $100 → 13%GENDERSPHERE: $1k → 17%GENDERSPHERE: $700 → 17%Battered Women's Shelter: $200 → 13%Victim Assistance Program: $20k → 13%Victim Assistance Program: $20k → 13%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%Akron Area YMCA: $10k → 13%Hudson Community First: $6k → 13%Hudson Community First: $6k → 13%HUDSON COMMUNITY FIRST: $6k → 13%HUDSON COMMUNITY FIRST: $6k → 13%Hudson Community First: $6k → 13%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $25k → 17%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $500 → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $500 → 17%South Street Ministries: $2k → 13%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

NH
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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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$29M · 162 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

162 repeat relationships — 110 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

162
142

Total granted

$29M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+16%

Still filing today

83%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

  • JI
    JUMPSTART INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +38%
  • US
    UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +26%
  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • GO
    GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +17% · 50% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +47%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA
    one grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue -17%

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
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

2
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
3
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

4
Ohio Chamber of Commerce

As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.

5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
7
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
8
Jobsohio

To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.

Employment
9
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
10
Ohio Association of Community Colleges

Oacc is dedicated to the advancement and implementation of sound policy and initiatives that work to ensure the success of the more than 300,000 community college students in ohio. rooted in the belief that every person should have access…

Education
11
Greater Akron Chamber

To promote business in the tri-county area

12
Ohio Bankers League

Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Peninsula Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%10%5–10yr21%20%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr20%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr12%12%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr20%32%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.3%1/305
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,001

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

280 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. 280 of the 343 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
61
Early backer (in before they grew)
275/280
Grantees still filing
185/280
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY SCHOOL — $2,384,930 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOLKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,854,757 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF AKRON RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,069,450 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF AKRON RESEARCH FOUNDATIONJohn Carroll University — $786,097 · EducationJohn Carroll UniversityLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $698,774 · EducationLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $698,143 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYBaldwin Wallace University — $671,674 · EducationBaldwin Wallace UniversityTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION — $479,180 · Education+36 more — $3,321,722 · Education+36 moreJUMPSTART INC — $2,697,000 · Community ImprovementJUMPSTART INCBOUNCE INNOVATION HUB — $1,779,000 · Community ImprovementBOUNCE INNOVATION HUBFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $831,000 · Community ImprovementFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTUR…WESTERN RESERVE COMMUNITY FUND INC — $600,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN RESERVE COMMUNITY F…GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC — $500,000 · Community ImprovementGROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS…VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC — $387,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $278,000 · Community Improvement+6 more — $481,500 · Community Improvement+6 moreGREATER AKRON CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $471,752 · OtherGREATER AKRON CHAMBER …ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $279,169 · OtherLAWRENCE SCHOOL — $252,000 · OtherWoodridge Local School System — $220,000 · OtherIDEASTREAM — $299,500 · OtherGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) — $406,650 · OtherGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE …+95 more — $4,243,225 · Other+95 moreNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC — $871,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $560,386 · Arts & CultureHUDSON LIBRARY & HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $231,900 · Arts & CultureTHE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC — $125,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $400,392 · Arts & CultureNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation — $337,353 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $306,500 · PhilanthropyOTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY OHIO — $130,980 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA — $120,000 · PhilanthropyAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $65,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO — $60,000 · PhilanthropyCANDID — $54,250 · Philanthropy+6 more — $153,870 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $746,000 · InternationalRAZOM INC — $125,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY — $110,000 · InternationalCENTRAL AMERICAN MEDICAL OUTREACH INC — $50,000 · International+6 more — $105,000 · InternationalPRESIDENTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC — $525,000 · EmploymentMortar Cincinnati — $320,000 · EmploymentEconomic Growth Foundation — $235,000 · Employment
Education$11,964,727Community Improvement$7,553,500Other$6,172,296Arts & Culture$2,188,678Philanthropy$1,368,203International$1,136,000Employment$1,080,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetJUMPSTART INC — $2,697,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL — $2,384,930 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,854,757 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetBOUNCE INNOVATION HUB — $1,779,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF AKRON RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,069,450 over 5y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC — $871,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $831,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetJohn Carroll University — $786,097 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $746,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $698,774 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $698,143 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University — $671,674 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE COMMUNITY FUND INC — $600,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $560,386 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPRESIDENTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC — $525,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetGROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC — $500,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION — $479,180 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER AKRON CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $471,752 over 4y, 41% of budgetGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) — $406,650 over 4y, 24% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC — $387,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $378,178 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $360,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation — $337,353 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMortar Cincinnati — $320,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $306,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $300,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetIDEASTREAM — $299,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $289,750 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $279,169 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $278,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL — $252,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEconomic Growth Foundation — $235,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHUDSON LIBRARY & HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $231,900 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC — $220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — $200,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetMAHONING COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL — $200,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $188,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $161,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENTREPRENEURS EDGE — $145,600 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetOTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetNOTRE DAME COLLEGE — $139,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIRAM COLLEGE — $137,479 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY OHIO — $130,980 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRAZOM INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC — $125,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA — $120,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Akron Community FoundationOH118.7× affinity78 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Gar Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Swagelok Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Hudson Community Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt 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 Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc38% of income from government
  • Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc0% of income from government
  • Williams College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
58report 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, 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.

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How do I get to Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Burton D Morgan 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 343 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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