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Dan Ryan Builders Charitable Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$337k
Granted FY2019
58
Grants FY2019
14
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

Housing & Shelter$466kHealth$110kHuman Services$70kEducation$19kRecreation & Sports$11kYouth Development$11kPhilanthropy$10kArts & Culture$9kOther$0
02FY2019 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k50 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$2,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION$120,000
INTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC$40,000
YMCA$16,000
CASA$12,500
MERITUS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$10,784
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$10,200
ADAPTIVE LIVING INCORPORATED$10,000
MARY'S HOME MARYLAND$10,000
HOMEAID NORTHERN VIRGINIA$6,100
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PITTSBURG AND MORGANTOWN$5,000
KIDS AND PROS INC$5,000
MARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION$5,000
JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION$5,000
LOW COUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON CO$4,000
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 (FY17–19, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HARBOR INC: $1k → 10%HOMEAID NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $6k → 6%MARY'S HOME MARYLAND: $10k → 6%YMCA: $16k → 6%OPERATION HOME inc: $6k → 12%RALEIGH DREAM CENTER: $500 → 8%CHARLESTON ORPHAN HOUSE: $6k → 12%YMCA: $11k → 6%A DOOR WAY TO HOPE: $1k → 8%YMCA: $10k → 6%CHARLESTON ORPHAN HOUSE: $3k → 12%MISSION OF MERCY: $4k → 6%READ AND FEED: $500 → 8%MISSION OF MERCY: $4k → 6%STAR COMMUNITY INC: $500 → 12%MISSION OF MERCY: $4k → 6%ASPIRING TO SERVE INC: $400 → 12%ASPIRING TO SERVE INC: $400 → 12%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

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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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$532k · 31 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2019, 10 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
58

Total granted

$532k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+29%

Still filing today

77%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • FR
    FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $195k · revenue +76%
  • IH
    INTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $146k · revenue +14%
  • YO
    YMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $37k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CC
    CARROLL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • AH
    AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION-MIDATLANTIC AFFILIATE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +135%

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
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
2
Hh Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
3
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
4
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
5
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Charlottesville Inc

The ronald mcdonald house charities of charlottesville, inc is organized to maintain and operate one or more facilities in the area of charlottesville, virginia to provide temporary housing for seriously ill children and their families…

Health
6
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
7
Health Care for the Homeless Inc

Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.

8
CalvertHealth Medical Center Inc

Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…

Health
9
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
10
St Marys Hospital for Children Inc

St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…

Health
11
Medstar Health Visiting Nurse Association Inc

See schedule oas a proud member of medstar health, the medstar visiting nurse association provides personalized home health care for homebound patients in maryland, northern virginia, and the district of columbia. its mission is to make a…

12
The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc

Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read and Feed and the most unlike its peers is Riverside High School Athletic Booster Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHomeless Services & ShelterChild and Family ServicesDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Food Pantries & AssistanceDevelopmental Disabilities …Public School District Foun…Veteran Support ServicesCommunity Arts OrganizationsAffordable Housing Developm…School Parent OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionElementary Literacy TutoringHospice Care ServicesVolunteer Fire DepartmentsUnited Way FederationsClassical Music EnsemblesChristian Missionary Organi…Ymca Community CentersCancer Support OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…Community Health CentersYouth Development Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr16%4%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr16%44%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/88
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,761

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

84 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. 84 of the 126 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
67/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC — $195,000 · Housing & ShelterFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INCINTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC — $146,000 · Housing & ShelterINTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INCCASA — $22,500 · Housing & ShelterCASA+2 more — $4,000 · Housing & ShelterCARROLL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $20,000 · OtherCARROLL COUNTY HABITAT FOR …HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CHARLESTON — $11,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CHA…AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION-MIDATLANTIC AFFILIATE — $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION-…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE CO — $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAK…ADAPTIVE LIVING INCORPORATED — $10,000 · OtherADAPTIVE LIVING INCORPORATE…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON CO — $7,250 · Other+69 more — $112,944 · Other+69 moreYMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC — $37,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF CUMBE…MISSION OF MERCY INC — $10,500 · Human ServicesMISSION OF ME…MARY'S HOME MARYLAND INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S HOME M…Landmarks for Families Inc — $8,000 · Human ServicesLandmarks for…Housing Trust Fund of Northern Virginia (dba Homeaid Northern Virginia) — $6,100 · Human ServicesHousing Trust…OPERATION HOME INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION HOM…LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF — $5,000 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY OR…+7 more — $5,300 · Human Services+7 moreMERITUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $16,734 · HealthMERITUS H…American Heart Association Inc — $10,200 · HealthAmerican …CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $7,500 · HealthCHILDREN'…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 · HealthALZHEIMER…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH AND MORGANTOWN INC — $5,000 · HealthRONALD MC…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $4,250 · HealthAMERICAN …RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $3,000 · Health+11 more — $9,975 · Health+11 moreWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,700 · EducationSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · EducationEXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR PGCPS INC — $3,000 · EducationRIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB — $2,500 · EducationGREENVILLE RENEWABLE ENERGY EDUCATION NETWORK — $1,500 · EducationKAY YOW CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $250 · EducationMARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · PhilanthropyWE CARE WSMGA — $2,700 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE — $1,500 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC — $4,750 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital — $4,600 · Youth Development
Housing & Shelter$367,500Other$181,194Human Services$87,400Health$63,659Education$15,950Philanthropy$12,200Youth Development$9,350

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 budgetFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC — $195,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetINTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC — $146,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetYMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC — $37,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCASA — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC — $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADAPTIVE LIVING INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHousing Trust Fund of Northern Virginia (dba Homeaid Northern Virginia) — $6,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION HOME INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKIDS & PROS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH AND MORGANTOWN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC — $4,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGirl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital — $4,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PANHANDLE INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR PGCPS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen Giving Back Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHENANDOAH WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB — $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE HOME BUILDERS CARE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOne-Eighty Place — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE FREDERICK ARTS COUNCIL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SPARTANBURG I — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Premier Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $1,625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA CHILDREN'S CHARITY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCarpenters Table Community Outreach Center — $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGREENVILLE RENEWABLE ENERGY EDUCATION NETWORK — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALLIE HILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY F/K/A HALLIE HILL INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHENANDOAH APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL INCORPORATED — $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Eastern West Virginia Community FoundationWV21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · United Way of the Eastern Panhandle · The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Ausherman Family Foundation · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc

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 Dan Ryan Builders Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 24%
  • Meritus Health Foundation Inc94% of income from government
  • Interfaith Housing Alliance Inc27% of income from government
  • The Frederick Arts Council Inc24% of income from government
  • Joshua M Freeman Foundation20% of income from government
  • Star Community Inc2% of income from government
  • Frederick Health Hospital Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Dan Ryan Builders Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dan Ryan Builders Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 126 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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