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Fr Bigelow Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
218
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5.6MHuman Services$5.6MCommunity Improvement$3.6MCivil Rights$3.5MHousing & Shelter$3.2MHealth$3.1MPhilanthropy$3.1MYouth Development$2.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 218 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k188 grants · $5.3M
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$181M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COALITION OF ASIAN AMERICAN LEADERS$600,000
SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$500,000
SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$100,000
SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$100,000
TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC$75,000
FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY$75,000
SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$75,000
COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES$75,000
AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION$75,000
MONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED$75,000
REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$75,000
MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC$75,000
FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE$75,000
COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE$75,000
FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER$75,000
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 (FY20–24, $7.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CANVAS HEALTH INC: $40k → 6%VALLEY OUTREACH: $75k → 6%EVOLVE ADOPTION & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 6%VALLEY OUTREACH: $40k → 6%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $100k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $100k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $75k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $75k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $35k → 11%THINK SMALL: $40k → 14%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $35k → 14%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $40k → 14%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $40k → 14%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $40k → 14%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $75k → 14%LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC: $50k → 14%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $40k → 14%FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $40k → 14%LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC: $40k → 14%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF: $40k → 14%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%CHANGE INC: $40k → 14%CHANGE INC: $40k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOT: $75k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $75k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $50k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $100k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $100k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $100k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC: $65k → 14%MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC: $50k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%AIN DAH YUNG OUR HOME CENTER: $40k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $40k → 14%DAILY WORK: $40k → 14%IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
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 5% of Fr Bigelow Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 87%.

Fr Bigelow Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 306 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

306 repeat relationships: 151 still active in FY2024, 155 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

306
140

Total granted

$32M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+22%

Still filing today

92%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CO
    Coalition of Asian American Leaders
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +45%
  • AH
    AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $665k · revenue +40%
  • TT
    THE TIWAHE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $390k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • EC
    ELEMENT COMMUNITY HEALTH FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $85k · revenue -44%
  • FR
    FRAZIER RECOVERY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • E
    EQUASPACEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +534% · 35% 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.

1
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
4
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

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5
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
6
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
7
Mixed Blood Theatre Company

Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.

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8
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

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9
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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10
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
11
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
12
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoration for All Inc; the most unlike its peers is East African Healing Services. 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

437 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. 437 of the 497 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
115
Early backer (in before they grew)
425/437
Grantees still filing
294/437
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $665,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDAT…THE TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $390,000 · Human ServicesTHE TIWAHE FOUNDATIONNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $360,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT…PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $295,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $260,000 · Human Services+37 more: $4,396,500 · Human Services+37 moreCoalition of Asian American Leaders: $1,510,000 · Arts & CultureCoalition of Asian…SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $270,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGBOARD FOR TH…THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureVictoria Theater Arts Center dba 825 Arts: $230,000 · Arts & CultureRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $207,500 · Arts & Culture+22 more: $2,459,099 · Arts & Culture+22 moreLATINOLEAD INC: $380,000 · OtherHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION: $355,000 · Other+84 more: $9,122,023 · Other+84 moreSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL &…PROPEL NONPROFITS: $235,000 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NONPR…GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $115,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $344,035 · Philanthropy+4 moreLAND BANK TWIN CITIES INC: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterAEON: $170,000 · Housing & ShelterEMMA NORTON SERVICES: $165,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSINGLINK: $160,000 · Housing & ShelterLatino Economic Development Center: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY HOUSING FUND: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $141,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC: $133,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME LINE: $130,000 · Housing & ShelterWOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC: $120,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE RONDO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $105,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING JUSTICE CENTER: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM: $380,000 · EducationAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS: $345,000 · EducationMONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED: $145,000 · EducationEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER: $115,000 · EducationBreakthrough Twin Cities: $110,000 · EducationMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $105,000 · EducationOSIRIS ORGANIZATION: $105,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $85,000 · EducationTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationMITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW: $80,000 · EducationAMAZEWORKS: $80,000 · EducationYouthprise: $70,000 · EducationREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $280,000 · HealthOPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER INC: $155,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $135,000 · HealthTUBMAN: $130,000 · HealthRECLAIM: $130,000 · HealthHAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: $110,000 · HealthCULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER: $110,000 · HealthST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS: $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $85,000 · HealthPORTICO HEALTHNET: $80,000 · HealthUNITED FAMILY PRACTICE HEALTH CENTER: $80,000 · HealthRAINBOW HEALTH MINNESOTA: $76,550 · HealthDISCAPACITADOS ABRIENDOSE CAMINOS: $70,000 · Health
Human Services$6,366,500Arts & Culture$4,926,599Other$9,857,023Philanthropy$3,194,035Housing & Shelter$1,859,000Education$1,705,000Health$1,541,550

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCoalition of Asian American Leaders: $1,510,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $665,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $390,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetLATINOLEAD INC: $380,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM: $380,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $360,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION: $355,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS: $345,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $295,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $280,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $270,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $260,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC: $250,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLAND BANK TWIN CITIES INC: $250,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS: $235,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVictoria Theater Arts Center dba 825 Arts: $230,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetMODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC: $210,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $207,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $205,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY: $190,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $185,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $185,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC: $170,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAEON: $170,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHANGE INC: $170,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUJAMAA PLACE: $169,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetEMMA NORTON SERVICES: $165,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHIRED: $160,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES: $160,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetTHEATER MU INCORPORATED: $160,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetHOUSINGLINK: $160,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetLatino Economic Development Center: $155,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN ROOTS MN: $155,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetLOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT: $155,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLiving Well Disability Services: $155,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER INC: $155,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFILMNORTH: $150,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetFAMILY HOUSING FUND: $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDaily Work: $150,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetKeystone Community Services: $150,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Arts Partnership: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGoodwill Industries Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED: $145,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetValley Outreach: $145,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $141,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $140,000 over 4y, 2.0% 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mardag FoundationHardenbergh FoundationOtto Bremer TrustGreater Twin Cities U…The McKnight Foundati…Target FoundationPropel NonprofitsMortenson Family Foun…YouthpriseThe Minneapolis Found…Pohlad Family Foundat…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN247.6× affinity380 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The McKnight Foundation · Target Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · Mortenson Family Foundation · Youthprise · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad 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 Fr Bigelow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fr Bigelow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    92report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 497 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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