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East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$97k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$174kEducation$161kHousing & Shelter$105kFood & Nutrition$57kCommunity Improvement$31kEnvironment$25kYouth Development$22kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,750
Median grant
5
States reached
$112k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES$10,000
CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION$7,500
CAMBRIDGE YMCA - YOUTH AT RISK FITNESS PROGRAM$7,500
MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS$5,000
ARLINGTON EATS$5,000
MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC$5,000
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR BELMONT EDUCATION$5,000
YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON NORTH SUBURBANYMCA$5,000
GREENROOTS INC$5,000
CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER$2,500
EAST END HOUSE$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - BOSTO$2,000
BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY - FATO$2,000
MASS-ASSITED LIVING ASSOCIATION$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $4k → 10%THE MASACCHUSETTES COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 10%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES: $5k → 8%LA COLOBORATIVA INC: $5k → 16%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $5k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES: $5k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES: $5k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES: $5k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES: $5k → 8%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $2k → 16%HOUSING FAMILIES: $3k → 8%HOUSING FAMILIES: $3k → 8%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS: $5k → 8%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 8%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 8%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES: $10k → 8%BRIDGES HOMEWARD: $3k → 8%SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $3k → 8%EAST END HOUSE: $3k → 8%CAMBRIDGE FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 8%CAMBRIDGE FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 8%SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $1k → 8%SOMERVILLE YMCA: $3k → 8%SECOND CHANCES INC: $1k → 8%SECOND CHANCES: $1k → 8%SECOND CHANCES INC: $1k → 8%SOMERVILLE YMCA: $1k → 8%SECOND CHANCES: $1k → 8%SOMERVILLE YMCA: $1k → 8%SECOND CHANCES: $200 → 8%SOLUTION AT WORK INC: $1k → 8%SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $1k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $3k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $3k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $3k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $3k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $3k → 8%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

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
NC
DC
LA
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$412k · 42 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
67

Total granted

$412k
$261k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+11%

Still filing today

79%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MV
    MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +79%
  • HR
    HOMEOWNER'S REHAB INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +6%
  • CY
    CAMBRIDGE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $123k
  • MV
    MYSTIC VALLEY YMCA - MALDEN
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • NS
    NORTH SUBURBAN YMCA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
4
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
5
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
9
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Lexington Interfaith Outreach Food Pantry Inc. 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

58 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. 58 of the 136 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
43/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $122,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAMBRIDGE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · OtherCAMBRIDGE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION+91 more: $281,350 · Other+91 moreMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesMYSTIC VALLEY AG…CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesCAMBRIDGE COMMUN…The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $12,500 · Human ServicesThe Childrens Ro…ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesADOLESCENT CONSU…LA COLABORATIVA INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA …BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGES HOMEWARD…MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS CO…SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SO: $4,500 · Human ServicesSecond Chances Inc: $4,200 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesHOMEOWNER'S REHAB INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMEOWNER'S…CHELSEA RESTORATION: $21,500 · Housing & ShelterCHELSEA RES…THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC: $14,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEIGHBO…CAMBRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD APARTMENT HOUSING SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCAMBRIDGE N…HOUSING CORPORATION OF ARLINGTON: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $6,500 · EducationBELMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationMCPHS UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $2,000 · EducationFISHER COLLEGE: $1,500 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,500 · EducationArlington Education Foundation: $1,500 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · Education+10 more: $10,000 · EducationARLINGTON EATS INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY COOKS INC: $6,500 · Food & NutritionLEXINGTON INTERFAITH OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionGREENROOTS INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentBREAD OF LIFE INC: $25,000 · Religion
Other$433,850Human Services$110,700Housing & Shelter$79,000Education$44,500Food & Nutrition$31,500Environment$25,000Religion$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEOWNER'S REHAB INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAMBRIDGE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREENROOTS INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHELSEA RESTORATION: $21,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetARLINGTON EATS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRIANGLE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAMBRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD APARTMENT HOUSING SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetSOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ASSISTED LIVING ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COOKS INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGES HOMEWARD INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $5,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUST-A-START CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEXINGTON INTERFAITH OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SO: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Chances Inc: $4,200 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSING CORPORATION OF ARLINGTON: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWATCH Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST END HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPIRIT OF ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #227: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCPHS UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArlington Education Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 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.

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.

Cambridge Savings Cha…Eastern Bank Foundati…United Way Of Massach…Boston Foundation IncCambridge Community F…Cummings Foundation G…Massachusetts Bankers…Eastern Cambridge Fou…Rockland Trust Charit…Bushrod H Campbell & …Leader Bank Charitabl…Philanthropy Massachu…
Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA62.7× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Leader Bank Charitable Foundation Corporation · Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc

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 East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Triangle Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Bridges Homeward Inc: 77% of income from government
  • Community Action Agency of Somerville: 49% of income from government
  • Chelsea Restoration: 44% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Solutions at Work Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation: 16% of income from government
  • Cambridge Camping Association Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Housing Families Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Watch Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Bread of Life Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Arlington Eats Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc: 4% of income from government
  • East End House Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Neighborhood Developers Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Fisher College: 2% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mcphs University: 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
  • The Somerville Community Corporation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lesley University: 1% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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

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Find your warmest path to East Cambridge Savings Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 136 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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