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Friends Fiduciary Corporation

Within the religious society of friends are many organizations requiring financial services to support their work.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$371k
Largest
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$1.3MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$417kCommunity Improvement$395kInternational$282kCivil Rights$279kHousing & Shelter$251kFood & Nutrition$245kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $1,109,942, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,209,007 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $99,065 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 $10k15 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $359k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $263k
  • $250k+1 grant · $371k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$743M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Realize Impact$370,500
Cheyney University$186,500
Friends Council on Education$76,715
Friends Committee on National Legislation Educatio$32,321
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting$29,811
Barclay Friends$25,000
Mercy Corps$25,000
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music$25,000
Filmmakers Collaborative SF$20,000
Lansdowne Friends School$18,845
Howard University$18,750
Waging Nonviolence$15,000
The Way Christian Center$15,000
Friends Select School$13,625
Crosswicks Monthly Meeting$13,290
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 8%FCNL EDUCATION FUND: $50k → 22%Quaker Voluntary Service: $8k → 16%Realize Impact: $371k → 10%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $95k → 12%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 8%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $13k → 6%Family Promise Montco: $8k → 7%Friends Committee on National Legislation Educatio: $32k → 22%FRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD: $28k → 22%WOMEN & FAMILIES CENTER: $50k → 12%FRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD: $25k → 22%WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER: $25k → 12%GPCA: $10k → 22%CHRYSALIS OF MERIDEN-WALLINGFORD INC: $25k → 12%WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD: $10k → 6%FRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD: $25k → 22%MERIDEN-WALLINGFORD CHRYSALIS INC: $25k → 12%DIVERSIFIED COMMUNITY SERVICESDIXON HOUSE: $8k → 22%WOMEN & FAMILIES CENTER: $25k → 12%FRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD: $24k → 22%WOMEN & FAMILIES CENTER: $20k → 12%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $9k → 22%FRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD: $23k → 22%Southwest Community Development: $9k → 22%MOTHERS IN CHARGE: $13k → 22%THE COVE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN INC: $25k → 12%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $8k → 22%THE COVE CENTER FOR GREIVING CHILDREN INC: $25k → 12%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF WALLINGFORD: $20k → 12%Phila Corp for Aging-EFC: $10k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $8k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $8k → 22%PHILA CORP FOR AGING-EFC: $7k → 22%Strawberry Mansion NAC Inc: $10k → 22%PHILA CORP FOR AGING-EFC: $7k → 22%GPASS: $10k → 22%GPASS: $8k → 22%GREATER PHILADELPHIA ASIAN SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER: $7k → 22%Mercy Neighborhood Ministries: $8k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES: $8k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES: $8k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES: $8k → 22%DAWN'S PLACE: $13k → 22%DAWN'S PLACE: $12k → 22%Face to Face: $9k → 22%GERMANTOWN LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER: $8k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $7k → 22%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
WA
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 53 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
27

Total granted

$4.3M
$538k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+17%

Still filing today

74%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $466k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationReligionHealthArts & 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

  • TC
    THE CHEYNEY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $631k · revenue +652% · 71% of their budget
  • FC
    FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +102% · 33% of their budget
  • FC
    FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $172k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INCgraduated
    2× · 2020–2021 · $105k · revenue +86%
  • CH
    COLUMBUS HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • CF
    CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCgraduated
    2× · 2020–2021 · $45k · revenue +97%
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
Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia

In order to promote social harmony and inter-religious understanding, Interfaith Philadelphia equips individuals and communities for interfaith engagement, builds collaborative relationships, and stands in solidarity with our diverse…

Religion
2
The Public Interest Law Center

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…

Crime & Legal
3
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
4
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
5
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
6
Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation

The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…

Community Improvement
7
Friends Center Corporation

Friends center corporation seeks to be a place that nurtures awareness of the presence of god, enlivens work for peace and justice, and invites the highest aspirations of the human spirit. as an expression of the beliefs and testimonies of…

Unclassified
8
Homeless Advocacy Project

To provide free civil legal services and advocacy to reduce the frequency and duration of homelessness in philadelphia.

Crime & Legal
9
Philadelphia Children's Alliance

Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…

Crime & Legal
10
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
11
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…

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12
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Waging Nonviolence 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

80 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. 80 of the 91 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/80
Grantees still filing
58/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS: $665,758 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDSAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $105,500 · OtherCABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: $100,830 · OtherFELLOWSHIP PLACE INC: $100,000 · OtherESCHATON FOUNDATION DBA RESOURCE CENTER: $85,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS: $79,150 · Other+37 more: $1,127,881 · Other+37 moreRealize Impact: $370,500 · Human ServicesRealize ImpactFRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD INC: $208,385 · Human ServicesFRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD …WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER: $120,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTERTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN …MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Cove Center for Grieving Children Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesMERIDEN-WALLINGFORD CHRYSALIS INC: $50,000 · Human Services+19 more: $329,755 · Human Services+19 moreTHE CHEYNEY FOUNDATION: $630,800 · EducationTHE CHEYNEY FOUNDAT…FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION: $172,445 · EducationFRIENDS COUNCIL ON …FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $81,472 · EducationFRIENDS SELECT SCHO…+3 more: $36,595 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $90,500 · InternationalMercy Corps: $80,000 · InternationalUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC: $35,000 · InternationalFUND FOR RECONCILIATION & DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 · InternationalWorld Beyond War: $24,300 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $20,000 · International+2 more: $15,000 · InternationalFILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE: $245,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $13,500 · Arts & CultureAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT: $120,000 · HealthBARCLAY FRIENDS: $25,000 · HealthTHE CONNECTION INC: $25,000 · HealthFCNL EDUCATION FUND: $150,570 · Public BenefitGreater Philadelphia Film Office: $15,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,264,119Human Services$1,283,640Education$921,312International$289,800Arts & Culture$258,500Health$170,000Public Benefit$165,570

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 budgetTHE CHEYNEY FOUNDATION: $630,800 over 7y, 71% of budgetRealize Impact: $370,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE: $245,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetFRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD INC: $208,385 over 8y, 85% of budgetFRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION: $172,445 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetFCNL EDUCATION FUND: $150,570 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT: $120,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetWOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER: $120,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $105,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: $100,830 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP PLACE INC: $100,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $90,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetESCHATON FOUNDATION DBA RESOURCE CENTER: $85,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $81,472 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $72,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew Kensington Community Development Corp: $54,400 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Cove Center for Grieving Children Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetMERIDEN-WALLINGFORD CHRYSALIS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWaging Nonviolence Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetFCL EDUCATION FUND: $40,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetCommunity Soup Kitchen Incorporated: $40,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetGREATER PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $37,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBEN LOMOND QUAKER CENTER ASSOCIATION: $36,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC: $32,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $26,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER PHILADELPHIA ASIAN SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER: $25,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDAWN'S PLACE: $25,185 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW BRITAIN: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBARCLAY FRIENDS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONNECTION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS PUBLISHING CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetENERGY COORDINATING AGENCY OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $24,440 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC: $21,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $18,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS IN CHARGE: $18,555 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA GREEN CAPITAL CORP: $18,300 over 2y, 0.3% 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 THE CHEYNEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Realize Impact ↗
  • Who funds FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ESCHATON FOUNDATION DBA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds New Kensington Community Development Corp ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Cove Center for Grieving Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds MERIDEN-WALLINGFORD CHRYSALIS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Waging Nonviolence Inc ↗
  • Who funds FCL EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Community Soup Kitchen Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BEN LOMOND QUAKER CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗

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 Philadelphia FoundationPA40.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Friends Foundation for the Aging · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Wsfs Cares 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 Friends Fiduciary Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends Fiduciary Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Columbus House Inc: 100% of income from government
  • The Connection Inc: 99% of income from government
  • Fellowship Place Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
  • Women and Families Center: 18% of income from government
  • Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Meriden-Wallingford Chrysalis Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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 91 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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