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Craftsmen Cares Foundation at a glance

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Craftsmen Cares Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$82k
Granted FY2024still arriving
78
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Human Services$101kFood & Nutrition$63kHealth$62kYouth Development$41kEducation$25kReligion$16kRecreation & Sports$9kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k77 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$521
Median grant
6
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELCOME NEIGHBOR STL$19,196
RANKEN JORDAN PEDIATRIC BRIDGE HOSPITAL$3,596
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI$2,500
SALVATION ARMY$2,237
YOUTHHOPE$2,000
FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER$1,907
COASTAL CARES FOUNDATION$1,900
BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$1,891
BELLA EASE$1,696
GRACE CHURCH$1,585
SALVATION ARMY$1,562
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH CO CARSON FAMILY$1,500
KENNY ROGERS CHILDREN'S CENTER$1,500
LINCOLN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE$1,500
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH IN NEED: $3k → 5%BUTTERFLY HAVEN: $3k → 11%TEAM LANDON CLAY FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%NIGHT OF ROCK STARS: $250 → 12%YOUTH IN NEED: $3k → 5%BUTTERFLY HAVEN: $1k → 11%TEAM LANDON CLAY FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%TEAM LANDON CLAY FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%RESTORE NETWORK: $200 → 12%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $3k → 15%YOUTH IN NEED: $2k → 5%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $666 → 11%THE RESTORE NETWORK: $150 → 12%BUTTERFLY HAVEN: $521 → 11%SUSANNA WESLEY FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $750 → 25%THE RESTORE NETWORK: $100 → 12%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $2k → 15%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $867 → 12%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $500 → 12%YOUTH IN NEED: $2k → 5%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $2k → 15%SUSANNA WESLEY FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $500 → 25%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $2k → 15%YOUTH IN NEED: $2k → 5%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $1k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $1k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $440 → 15%YOUTH IN NEED: $1k → 5%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $2k → 11%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $440 → 15%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $969 → 11%YOUTH IN NEED: $800 → 5%THE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 17%OUTREACH ASSISTANCE SERVING INDIVIDUALS IN ST CHARLES: $285 → 5%FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $300 → 21%FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $300 → 21%NO HUNGER HOLIDAY: $1k → 5%FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $500 → 21%LOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS: $3k → 11%FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $300 → 21%IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE WOMENS PROGRAM: $200 → 21%FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $300 → 21%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $250 → 11%WILLOWS WAY INC: $371 → 5%ANGELS' ARMS: $719 → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $300 → 11%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

IL
MI
NY
NV
IA
OH
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
TN
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$241k · 66 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

66 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
96

Total granted

$241k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+26%

Still filing today

47%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YI
    YOUTH IN NEED
    7× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +55%
  • BF
    BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +65%
  • SM
    SOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SH
    SSM HEALTH CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • HT
    HOGAN TRUCK LEASING INC
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • AE
    ALLIANT ENERGY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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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The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Outreach Inc

To provide nutritional support and enhance the quality of life of men, women, and children living with hiv/aids or cancer

Food & Nutrition
3
St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health
4
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
5
Family Advocacy and Community Training Inc

Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…

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6
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
7
Ability Kc

Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.

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8
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis

To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence. our values are dignity, hospitality, service, excellence, compassion, and joy.

Human Services
9
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
10
St Louis Arc Inc

To empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to lead better lives by providing a lifetime of high-quality services, family support and advocacy.

Human Services
11
Saint Louis Counseling Inc

The mission of saint louis counseling is to bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate caring presence. the purpose of saint louis counseling is "guided by the teachings of jesus christ, saint…

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12
Good Shepherd Children & Family Services

Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families; the most unlike its peers is Gateway Warrior Foundation. 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

86 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. 86 of the 207 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/86
Grantees still filing
50/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTHHOPE: $10,163 · OtherKUTO CORPORATION: $8,310 · OtherGRACE CHURCH: $7,564 · OtherST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 · Other+142 more: $164,816 · Other+142 moreYOUTH IN NEED: $13,475 · Human ServicesYOUTH IN NEEDBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $11,755 · Human ServicesBETHANY FOR CHI…BUTTERFLY HAVEN INC: $4,420 · Human ServicesBUTTERFLY HAVEN…FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $3,126 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF KIDS…LOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS INC: $3,035 · Human ServicesLOAVES AND FISH…FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $1,700 · Human Services+13 more: $9,444 · Human Services+13 moreWELCOME NEIGHBOR STL: $40,384 · PhilanthropyWELCOME NEIGHB…Coastal Cares Foundation: $1,900 · PhilanthropyKIDS AGAINST HUNGER - YOUR QUAD CITIES: $1,727 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC: $10,535 · Food & NutritionSOUTHEAST…RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $6,500 · Food & NutritionRIVER BEN…Caritas Connections Inc: $5,984 · Food & NutritionCaritas C…HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES: $3,000 · Food & NutritionHORIZONS …BREAD SHED INC: $1,222 · Food & NutritionNEBRASKA DIAPER BANK: $1,001 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $625 · Food & NutritionThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $5,297 · HealthTHE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTION: $2,996 · HealthKNOCKOUT ALD: $2,500 · HealthTATA SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION: $1,659 · HealthMERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH: $1,288 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE BEN KRUSE 18 FORE LIFE FOUNDATION: $700 · Health+10 more: $3,037 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $3,748 · Youth DevelopmentTHE 180 ZONE: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentUnbounded Inc: $1,298 · Youth Development+1 more: $185 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC: $2,600 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $1,150 · Crime & Legal
Other$198,353Human Services$46,955Philanthropy$45,011Food & Nutrition$28,867Health$18,477Youth Development$6,731Crime & Legal$3,750

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetWELCOME NEIGHBOR STL: $40,384 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetYOUTH IN NEED: $13,475 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $11,755 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC: $10,535 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHHOPE: $10,163 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKUTO CORPORATION: $8,310 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCaritas Connections Inc: $5,984 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $5,297 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENNY ROGERS CHILDRENS CENTER: $5,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUTTERFLY HAVEN INC: $4,420 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $3,748 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $3,126 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS INC: $3,035 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTION: $2,996 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $2,884 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC: $2,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKNOCKOUT ALD: $2,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY: $1,927 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Cares Foundation: $1,900 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetKIDS AGAINST HUNGER - YOUR QUAD CITIES: $1,727 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBELLA EASE: $1,696 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTATA SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION: $1,659 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE 180 ZONE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW KINGDOM TRAILRIDERS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $1,367 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $1,363 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH: $1,288 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUSANNA WESLEY FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAD SHED INC: $1,222 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTS JOACHIM AND ANN CARE SERVICE: $1,024 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA DIAPER BANK: $1,001 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR THE CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER AKA ASPIRE WOMEN'S CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBERAKA MINISTRIES: $900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS' ARMS: $719 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BEN KRUSE 18 FORE LIFE FOUNDATION: $700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $666 over 1y, 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 WELCOME NEIGHBOR STL ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH IN NEED ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHHOPE ↗
  • Who funds KUTO CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
  • Who funds Caritas Connections Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
  • Who funds KENNY ROGERS CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC ↗
  • Who funds BUTTERFLY HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC ↗
  • Who funds KNOCKOUT ALD ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Commerce Bancshares F…Employees Community F…Moneta Group Charitab…Edward Jones Foundati…United Way of Greater…Centene FoundationSt Louis Community Fo…TsfYouthbridge Community…Quad Cities Golf Clas…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO33.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Tsf · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable 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 Craftsmen Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Craftsmen Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Craftsmen Cares Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Craftsmen Cares Foundation 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 207 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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