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Daffy Charitable Fund

To help people be more generous, more often.

$40M
Granted FY2024still arriving
809
Grants FY2024still arriving
47
States reached
$3.3M
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$13MEducation$7.3MPhilanthropy$5.9MInternational$5.4MHealth$3.7MEnvironment$1.7MHuman Services$1.5MScience & Tech$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 809 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 809 grants below total $35,129,437, the rows itemized in this filing. The $39,841,265 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,711,828 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k256 grants · $1.7M
  • $10k–50k443 grants · $8.1M
  • $50k–250k91 grants · $8.9M
  • $250k+19 grants · $16M
$11,560
Median grant
47
States reached
$334M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$3,345,997
Muslim Community of Folsom$3,192,800
Heroic Hearts Project$1,175,000
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints$1,011,917
The Earth Species Project$1,005,000
Silicon Valley Community Foundation$1,000,000
The Infinite Node Foundation$700,000
Central Fund of Israel$676,360
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University$586,081
University of California San Francisco Foundation$536,871
Make a Difference Ministries Inc$525,100
CenterPointe Church$406,000
The Good Food Institute$365,500
Wake Forest University$350,000
Oshman Family Jewish Community Center$345,857
02The need
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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 (FY22–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Wise Place: $10k → 10%The Village Durham: $16k → 13%Make a Difference Ministries Inc: $525k → 14%America's Kids Belong Inc: $9k → 11%AdoptTogether (Hoping Hearts Foundation): $10k → 6%A Lighthouse for Women: $35k → 8%Human Needs Project: $15k → 8%East Cooper Community Outreach: $10k → 12%Crossroads Rhode Island: $11k → 14%Make a Difference Ministries Inc: $100k → 14%Realize Impact: $31k → 10%Well Rooted: $33k → 10%A Lighthouse for Women: $20k → 8%Commit2Change (C2C): $10k → 9%Manifold for Charity: $220k → 10%Davis Memorial Fund Inc: $26k → 6%charity water: $39k → 4%Charlotte Family Housing Inc: $10k → 10%Friends of KDSP: $10k → 13%Israel Medical Fund Corp: $26k → 17%Prime Coalition Inc: $25k → 8%Youth Investment Foundation (Timber Bay): $19k → 11%The Citizens Foundation USA: $85k → 16%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $15k → 10%Community Resource Center: $9k → 11%Naloxone Project: $14k → 12%Latino Community Foundation: $110k → 10%American Red Cross: $35k → 14%Siddheswari Seva Inc: $10k → 13%Marys Place Seattle: $9k → 9%Tucklets: $26k → 11%Latino Community Foundation: $10k → 10%Westside Neighbors Network Shelter: $20k → 9%Our Place in New York Inc: $9k → 17%Larkin Street Youth Services: $20k → 10%The American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc: $36k → 17%Larkin Street Youth Services: $18k → 10%Avail Nyc: $10k → 17%GiveDirectly: $151k → 17%Give Directly Inc: $64k → 17%Give Directly Inc: $9k → 17%Rahima International Foundation: $11k → 8%Indian Muslim Relief & Charities: $12k → 8%City Hope San Francisco: $41k → 10%At The Crossroads: $10k → 10%The Brigid Alliance: $11k → 17%At The Crossroads: $10k → 10%Charity Water: $11k → 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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VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 99% of Daffy Charitable Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 34% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Daffy Charitable Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 188 repeat orgs$23M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

188 repeat relationships: 173 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 600 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

188
117

Total granted

$16M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+9%

Still filing today

71%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • HH
    HEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +200%
  • MA
    MAKE A DIFFERENCE MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $625k · revenue +72%
  • OF
    OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $384k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AH
    ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $700k · revenue 0%
  • RF
    REASON FOR HOPE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +8%
  • AI
    ATHLETES IN ACTION SPORTS COMPLEX AND RETREAT CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
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
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
2
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
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
8
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
9
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
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
12
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

652 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. 652 of the 948 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)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
641/652
Grantees still filing
344/652
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $1,524,002 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAIN…THE EARTH SPECIES PROJECT: $1,005,000 · OtherTHE EARTH SPECIES PROJECTADVENTIST HEALTHCARE INC: $700,000 · OtherMAKE A DIFFERENCE MINISTRIES INC: $625,350 · OtherTHE INFINITE NODE FOUNDATION: $700,000 · Other+100 more: $9,660,615 · Other+100 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $746,891 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUS…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $536,871 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CAL…LOWELL SCHOOL: $362,770 · EducationLOWELL SCHOOLWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $350,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVE…Vanderbilt University: $317,900 · EducationVanderbilt Univer…THE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL: $254,000 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $232,002 · EducationTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $200,000 · Education+29 more: $2,475,215 · Education+29 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $3,934,067 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INV…MUSLIM COMMUNITY OF FOLSOM: $3,192,800 · ReligionMUSLIM COMMU…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $205,653 · Religion+10 more: $491,173 · Religion+10 moreHEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC: $1,275,000 · InternationalHEROIC HEAR…Central Fund of Israel: $676,360 · InternationalCentral Fun…International Rescue Committee INC: $343,264 · InternationalInternation…Global Distribution Fund Inc D-Prize: $275,000 · InternationalGlobal Dist…WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $145,065 · InternationalTHE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE: $134,000 · International+10 more: $724,316 · International+10 moreSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropySilicon V…GIVING WHAT WE CAN USA INC: $331,838 · PhilanthropyGIVING WH…THE CLEAR FUND: $306,855 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR…HORIZON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE: $300,000 · PhilanthropyHORIZON I…AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $205,200 · PhilanthropyAMERICA I…LOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $204,931 · PhilanthropyLOS ALTOS…+10 more: $716,462 · Philanthropy+10 moreVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $276,500 · HealthREASON FOR HOPE INC: $250,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $250,000 · HealthMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $176,078 · HealthWilliam G Nash Foundation: $125,000 · HealthLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD: $111,300 · HealthPSFC: $100,140 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $61,464 · HealthHeal Traumas International Inc: $60,000 · Health+4 more: $188,713 · Health
Other$14,214,967Education$5,475,649Community Improvement$3,934,067Religion$3,889,626International$3,573,005Philanthropy$3,065,286Health$1,599,195

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $3,934,067 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC: $1,275,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE EARTH SPECIES PROJECT: $1,005,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $746,891 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTIST HEALTHCARE INC: $700,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $676,360 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE A DIFFERENCE MINISTRIES INC: $625,350 over 2y, 24% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $536,871 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $383,637 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $365,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLOWELL SCHOOL: $362,770 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $343,264 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING WHAT WE CAN USA INC: $331,838 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVanderbilt University: $317,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $306,855 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE: $300,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $276,500 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetGlobal Distribution Fund Inc D-Prize: $275,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetTHE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL: $254,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE INTERMARIUM FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetREASON FOR HOPE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $232,002 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $224,312 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetManifold for Charity Inc: $220,030 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetOPEN LUNAR FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $205,653 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $205,200 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $204,931 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetHealing Advocacy Fund: $200,200 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $192,711 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISHMAN HILLS CONSERVANCY: $185,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $176,078 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $166,212 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $150,083 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $145,065 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN FRANCISCO: $143,996 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE: $134,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetTHE KEHILLAH SCHOOL: $133,180 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC: $131,300 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $131,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $130,240 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $130,010 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER CAT RESCUE: $127,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Joe & Sandy Sambe…Bright Funds Foundati…Jewish Community Fede…The Intuit FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Founders Pledge IncWalter and Elise Haas…American Muslim Commu…The David and Lucile …Dare FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Sobrato Family Fo…
The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation IncNY29.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · Bright Funds Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Intuit Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Founders Pledge Inc · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · American Muslim Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Dare Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Sobrato 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 Daffy Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daffy Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Adventist Healthcare Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Day Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Daffy Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Daffy Charitable Fund 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 948 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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