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Center for Community Change Action

The CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.(mission statement continued on schedule o)"community change action" works to dramatically improve material conditions for people struggling to…

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$980k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$11MCivil Rights$8.0MHuman Services$2.5MCommunity Improvement$712kEmployment$628kEducation$330kCrime & Legal$230kPublic Safety & Disaster$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $571k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$37,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY CHANGE VOTERS$980,000
ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT (FORMERLY AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION)$500,000
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION$270,000
INDIVISIBLE PROJECT$245,000
MOVEONORG CIVIC ACTION$187,000
UNITED WE DREAM ACTION$85,000
CLEAN WATER ACTION$53,750
TIDES ADVOCACY$37,500
VOTERS NOT POLITICIANS$37,500
NEW JERSEY COMMUNITIES UNITED$30,000
HOOSIER ACTION$25,000
TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT$25,000
MAKE THE ROAD ACTION$25,000
WEPOWER ACTION MISSOURI$25,000
STAND UP FOR OHIO (THE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN)$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $100k → 11%SIREN: $20k → 8%CHIRLA ACTION FUND: $196k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $25k → 14%ARKANSAS UNITED COMMUNITY COALITION: $23k → 14%FAMILY FORWARD OREGON: $80k → 12%COMUNIDADES UNIDAS: $5k → 8%GEORGIAINVESTOR ACTION FUND INC: $70k → 14%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $25k → 7%FAITH IN INDIANA INC: $15k → 16%CASA IN ACTION: $333k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $75k → 11%SIREN: $16k → 8%CHIRLA ACTION FUND: $135k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $20k → 14%ARKANSAS UNITED COMMUNITY COALITION: $11k → 14%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION: $110k → 17%IMMIGRANT WORKERS CITIZENSHIP PROJECT: $50k → 13%CASA IN ACTION: $290k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $40k → 11%SIREN: $5k → 8%CHIRLA ACTION FUND: $66k → 14%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION: $51k → 17%LATIN AMERICAN COALITION: $21k → 10%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $33k → 11%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $44k → 17%ACCE ACTION: $35k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $20k → 11%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $15k → 17%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND: $80k → 17%MAKE THE ROAD NY ACTION FUND: $21k → 20%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $15k → 14%MOMSRISING TOGETHER: $290k → 9%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND: $33k → 17%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS (NPNA): $20k → 14%MAKE THE ROAD NY ACTION FUND: $15k → 20%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $24k → 12%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER: $45k → 17%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

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CA
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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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 61 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
80

Total granted

$21M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
0%

Still filing today

84%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +42%
  • AV
    AMERICA'S VOICE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $933k · revenue +2% · 36% of their budget
  • TO
    THE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN
    8× · 2017–2025 · $833k · revenue ×14 · 93% of their budget

Funded once

  • MT
    MOMSRISING TOGETHER
    one grant, 2021 · $290k · revenue -52%
  • AW
    ARIZONA WINS
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • AB
    A BETTER BIG SKYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue ×19 · 38% of their budget
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.

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Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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2
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
3
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
4
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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5
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
9
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
10
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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11
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
12
Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights

VACIR is a multi-racial and multi-ethnic coalition of organizations that exists to win dignity, power and quality of life for all immigrant and refugee communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadmo Action; the most unlike its peers is Gamaliel Faith & Democracy Campaign. 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

131 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. 131 of the 148 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.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/131
Grantees still filing
75/131
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY CHANGE VOTERS PAC: $3,069,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHANGE VOTERS PACWIN JUSTICE: $2,698,500 · OtherWIN JUSTICETIDES ADVOCACY: $686,500 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYUNITED WE DREAM ACTION: $490,000 · Other+54 more: $3,931,084 · Other+54 moreWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $1,210,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INCAMERICA'S VOICE: $933,114 · Civil RightsAMERICA'S VOICETHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $832,904 · Civil RightsTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGNFLORIDA RISING INC: $619,600 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INCFAITH IN MINNESOTA: $525,000 · Civil RightsFAITH IN MINNESOTAMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $500,000 · Civil RightsMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INCMichigan Peoples Campaign: $464,310 · Civil RightsMichigan Peoples CampaignINDIVISIBLE PROJECT: $455,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE PROJECTPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA ACTION: $308,245 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA VOTA: $270,000 · Civil Rights+30 more: $1,841,678 · Civil Rights+30 moreCASA IN ACTION INC: $753,000 · Human ServicesCASA IN ACT…Californians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund: $397,199 · Human ServicesCalifornian…MOMSRISING TOGETHER: $290,000 · Human ServicesMOMSRISING …LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $248,000 · Human ServicesLIVING UNIT…VOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $219,000 · Human ServicesVOCES DE LA…NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED: $148,500 · Human ServicesNEW YORK ST…DOWN HOME NC: $109,500 · Human Services+17 more: $585,150 · Human Services+17 moreORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: $710,000 · Community ImprovementORGANIZER…MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $612,500 · Community ImprovementMAINE PEO…FAMILY FORWARD ACTION: $300,000 · Community ImprovementFAMILY FO…A BETTER BIG SKY: $150,000 · Community ImprovementA BETTER …CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $100,000 · Community Improvement+9 more: $352,000 · Community Improvement+9 moreMoveOnorg Civic Action: $607,000 · EducationParent Voices Action: $185,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $30,000 · EducationMICHIGAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH ACTION: $308,620 · Public BenefitONEAMERICA: $277,500 · Public BenefitCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $75,000 · Public BenefitBEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $45,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $45,000 · Public BenefitAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $500,000 · Philanthropy
Other$10,875,084Civil Rights$7,959,851Human Services$2,750,349Community Improvement$2,224,500Education$872,000Public Benefit$801,120Philanthropy$500,000

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 budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $1,210,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICA'S VOICE: $933,114 over 5y, 36% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $832,904 over 8y, 93% of budgetCASA IN ACTION INC: $753,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: $710,000 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $686,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $619,600 over 5y, 15% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $612,500 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetMoveOnorg Civic Action: $607,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetFAITH IN MINNESOTA: $525,000 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $500,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM ACTION: $490,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetMichigan Peoples Campaign: $464,310 over 6y, 33% of budgetINDIVISIBLE PROJECT: $455,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCalifornians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund: $397,199 over 3y, 43% of budgetPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA ACTION: $308,245 over 6y, 11% of budgetFAMILY FORWARD ACTION: $300,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetMOMSRISING TOGETHER: $290,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCIRC ACTION FUND: $282,650 over 4y, 42% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND: $280,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetONEAMERICA: $277,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMI FAMILIA VOTA: $270,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $258,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $248,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetILLINOIS IMMIGRANT ACTION INC: $242,178 over 5y, 27% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $219,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetOUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA: $200,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetCare in Action Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetParent Voices Action: $185,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $170,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUnited for Respect: $168,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetFLIC VOTES INC: $167,260 over 4y, 11% of budgetA BETTER BIG SKY: $150,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetNEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED: $148,500 over 3y, 41% of budgetNEW JERSEY ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $140,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetFAMILY VALUES WORK ACTION INC: $110,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDOWN HOME NC: $109,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $100,900 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION GROUP: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetGrassroots Illinois Action: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPennsylvania United: $100,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPODER NC ACTION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN: $95,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetACTION TOGETHER NEPA: $80,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC: $80,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFAMILY FORWARD OREGON: $80,000 over 1y, 6.5% 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 WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA'S VOICE ↗
  • Who funds THE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN ↗
  • Who funds CASA IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT ↗
  • Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MoveOnorg Civic Action ↗
  • Who funds FAITH IN MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WE DREAM ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Michigan Peoples Campaign ↗
  • Who funds INDIVISIBLE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Californians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA ACTION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY FORWARD ACTION ↗
  • Who funds MOMSRISING TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds CIRC ACTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds ONEAMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MI FAMILIA VOTA ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS IMMIGRANT ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds VOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds Care in Action Inc ↗
  • Who funds Parent Voices Action ↗
  • Who funds COLOROFCHANGEORG ↗
  • Who funds United for Respect ↗
  • Who funds FLIC VOTES INC ↗
  • Who funds A BETTER BIG SKY ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC115.9× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Center for Community Change · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · Tides Foundation · Working Families Organization Inc · Pro-Democracy Campaign

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 Center for Community Change Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Community Change Action. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 148 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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