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Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$641k
Granted FY2024still arriving
123
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.5MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$826kHuman Services$426kPhilanthropy$148kRecreation & Sports$146kYouth Development$136kHousing & Shelter$121kOther$0
02FY2024 · 123 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k110 grants · $211k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$1,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO$100,000
HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL$100,000
KIDSPACE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$50,000
PATHWAY TO KINSHIP$50,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$30,000
LAURA JEAN MUSIC SCHOOL$20,000
MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION$20,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY & GARDENS$10,000
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
NEW ROADS SCHOOL$10,000
FEEDING AMERICA$10,000
SAINT MATTHEWS PARISH SCHOOL$10,000
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY SOCIETY OF FELLOWS$6,000
MAGICAL STRINGS OF YOUTH$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $511k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOY'S TOWN: $1k → 12%URYADI'S VILLAGE: $1k → 12%MENLO CHARITY HORSE SHOW: $5k → 7%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $2k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 16%SOLES4SOULS: $3k → 14%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%BOY'S TOWN: $1k → 12%URYADI'S VILLAGE: $1k → 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $1k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%SOLES4SOULS: $3k → 14%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%SOLES4SOULS: $3k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $5k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $5k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $5k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $101k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $10k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $4k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $4k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $4k → 14%PATHWAY TO KINSHIP: $50k → 14%PATHWAY TO KINSHIP: $50k → 14%PATHWAY TO KINSHIP: $50k → 14%PATHWAY TO KINSHIP: $50k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%THE SYCAMORES: $2k → 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

ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
DC
OK
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 179 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

179 repeat relationships: 115 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

179
48

Total granted

$4.7M
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+27%

Still filing today

58%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • KA
    KIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $507k · revenue +46%
  • MC
    MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +175%
  • PT
    PATHWAY TO KINSHIP INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • TK
    THE KINSHIP PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • RC
    RODIGER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • BH
    BETTY HAAG ACADEMY OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
2
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
6
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
7
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
12
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy; the most unlike its peers is Rachel Barton Pine Foundation. 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

134 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. 134 of the 238 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/134
Grantees still filing
104/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL: $510,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON HOSPITALUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: $400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICOUSC- MARSHALL SCHOOL: $155,500 · OtherUSC- MARSHALL SCHOOLSAINT MATTHEWS PARISH SCHOOL: $130,000 · OtherMAGICAL STRINGS OF YOUTH: $95,000 · Other+113 more: $1,301,700 · Other+113 moreKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM: $507,000 · Arts & CultureKIDSPACE A PAR…THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA: $26,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $24,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $41,160 · Arts & Culture+7 moreMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthMOBILE CARE F…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $43,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $38,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS…VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH S…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $21,000 · Health+17 more: $149,500 · Health+17 morePATHWAY TO KINSHIP INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAY TO K…ABILITYFIRST: $123,000 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRSTUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $39,000 · Human ServicesUNION STATIO…UNION RESCUE MISSION: $37,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $18,000 · Human Services+15 more: $110,250 · Human Services+15 morePOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $180,000 · EducationPOLYTECHNI…UCLA FOUNDATION: $65,250 · EducationUCLA FOUND…San Marino Schools Foundation: $36,000 · EducationSan Marino…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $34,000 · EducationUniversity…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $26,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN…INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $25,000 · EducationINSTITUTE …BRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $21,000 · EducationART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $18,000 · EducationFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $16,000 · Education+6 more: $29,000 · Education+6 moreSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $26,000 · Recreation & SportsUSHJA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $13,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $13,000 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $7,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $6,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $6,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $5,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $4,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $3,000 · International
Other$2,592,200Arts & Culture$623,660Health$586,500Human Services$527,250Education$450,250Recreation & Sports$105,000International$81,000

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 budgetKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM: $507,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetPATHWAY TO KINSHIP INC: $200,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $123,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $65,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $44,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $43,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $38,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSan Marino Schools Foundation: $36,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $34,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA: $26,500 over 8y, 17% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE: $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $26,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $26,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $24,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PASADENA INC: $15,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUSHJA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG & HEALTHY: $14,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE RESCUE: $13,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ROADS SCHOOL: $10,000 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.

  • Who funds KIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAY TO KINSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds San Marino Schools Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗

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 Rose Hills FoundationCA49.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Western Asset Management Company Charitable Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts · The Green Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · The Patron Saints 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 Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 238 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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