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Goodnation Foundation Inc

Goodnation Foundation's mission is to help address our country and communities' toughest challenges by bringing new philanthropic support to high performing nonprofits.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$805k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$8.3MCivil Rights$4.3MPhilanthropy$2.2MEducation$2.2MHealth$1.7MInternational$1.1MHuman Services$833kCrime & Legal$730kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 52 grants below total $9,429,161, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,029,520 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,600,359 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

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $249k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+13 grants · $6.0M
$100,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Together Wisconsin Acts$805,000
Make North Carolina First$750,000
PA Alliance Foundation$680,000
Freedom Black Led Organizing$625,000
Michigan Civic Education Fund$500,000
A Better Big Sky$485,000
Center for Technology and$453,500
Black Male Initiative Fund$322,500
Rural Arizona Engagement$300,000
Michigan Civic Action Fund$290,000
PushBlack$289,500
Georgia Alliance Education$280,000
Our Voice Our Vote Arizona$250,000
New Venture Funds$200,161
Hopewell Fund$200,000
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 (FY18–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Winchester A Better Chance: $20k → 8%Windrush Farm: $15k → 10%CityKids Foundation: $100k → 20%Harambee House: $15k → 16%Martha's Kitchen: $21k → 12%Touching Heart: $25k → 6%Home Base: $50k → 10%Winchester A Better Chance: $10k → 8%Recovery Cafe San Jose: $21k → 8%AFYA Foundation: $50k → 9%Voces de la Frontera: $100k → 17%All Hands and Hearts: $8k → 8%Friends of the Winchester Public Library: $10k → 8%Tides Center: $120k → 10%AFYA Foundation: $15k → 9%The Alex House Project: $30k → 20%Cradles to Crayons: $55k → 8%Emma's Torch: $10k → 20%SisterSong: $19k → 13%Red Hook Initiative: $6k → 20%SisterSong: $10k → 13%Georgia Investor Action Fund: $50k → 14%Cradles to Crayons: $25k → 8%Winchester A Better Chance: $10k → 8%Cradles to Crayons: $10k → 8%Possibility Labs: $75k → 10%Ayni Institute: $150k → 16%Possibility Labs: $75k → 10%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $210k → 8%Plan C: $6k → 14%Women's Community Justice Association: $100k → 20%Horizons for Homeless Children: $13k → 16%Room to Grow: $48k → 17%Room to Grow: $20k → 17%New Women New Yorkers: $6k → 17%Together & Free: $134k → 17%SOS Children's Village: $15k → 14%International Refugee Assistance Project: $10k → 17%The TEAK Fellowship: $254k → 17%Girls Who Code: $30k → 17%The TEAK Fellowship: $13k → 17%The TEAK Fellowship: $10k → 17%The TEAK Fellowship: $10k → 17%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

VT
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IL
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MA
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NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
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NC
DC
HI
AL
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.
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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 67% of Goodnation Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 2%.

Goodnation Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 57 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
168

Total granted

$7.5M
$8.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+3%

Still filing today

98%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.6M 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
Civil RightsHuman ServicesEducationInternationalPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $355k · revenue +21%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $330k · revenue +26%
  • SI
    STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $330k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • RF
    RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -62%
  • BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2020 · $210k · revenue -69%
  • TT
    THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $210k · revenue -24%
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
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
7
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
8
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
9
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

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10
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
11
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
12
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mark & Kathryn Ford Family Foundation Inc. 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

258 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. 258 of the 280 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)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
255/258
Grantees still filing
132/258
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PA Alliance Foundation: $1,030,000 · Civil RightsPA Alliance FoundationMICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUNDTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $377,210 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTE…BLACK MALE INITIATIVE FUND INC: $322,500 · Civil RightsRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT: $300,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $290,000 · Civil RightsPUSHBLACK: $289,500 · Civil RightsOUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA: $250,000 · Civil Rights+31 more: $3,223,885 · Civil Rights+31 moreMake North Carolina First: $750,000 · OtherMake North Carolina FirstFreedom Black Led Organizing: $625,000 · OtherFreedom Black Led OrganizingCenter for Technology and: $453,500 · OtherRUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND: $500,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $355,157 · OtherA BETTER BIG SKY: $485,000 · Other+91 more: $6,833,202 · Other+91 moreGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $322,300 · EducationGEORGIA AL…NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC: $300,000 · EducationNEW CLASSR…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $232,000 · EducationWILLIAM J …BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $210,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT …CIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $210,000 · EducationCIVIC NEWS…YEAR UP INC: $115,000 · EducationUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $109,750 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · Education+11 more: $563,997 · Education+11 moreTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $285,813 · Human ServicesTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $210,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY LABS: $150,000 · Human ServicesAYNI INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER & FREE INC: $133,750 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $120,000 · Human ServicesVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesCITYKIDS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesWomens Community Justice Association Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $67,500 · Human ServicesTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $65,050 · Human Services+10 more: $330,200 · Human ServicesTIDES FOUNDATION: $593,445 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $400,000 · PhilanthropyPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $221,200 · PhilanthropyRISE EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $65,480 · Philanthropy+3 more: $100,771 · PhilanthropyTOGETHER WISCONSIN ACTS INC: $805,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $330,000 · HealthGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $110,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $75,000 · HealthROOT WELNESS CENTER: $65,000 · HealthCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $27,500 · HealthNEW VENTURE FUND: $955,161 · EnvironmentSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $145,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND: $100,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $79,800 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $75,000 · Environment+2 more: $53,850 · Environment
Civil Rights$6,583,095Other$10,001,859Education$2,263,047Human Services$1,902,313Philanthropy$1,480,896Health$1,462,500Environment$1,408,811

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 budgetPA Alliance Foundation: $1,030,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $955,161 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER WISCONSIN ACTS INC: $805,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMake North Carolina First: $750,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $593,445 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetA BETTER BIG SKY: $485,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $400,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $377,210 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $355,157 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $330,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $329,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetBLACK MALE INITIATIVE FUND INC: $322,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $322,300 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT: $300,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $290,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPUSHBLACK: $289,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $285,813 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA: $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $232,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACRONYM INC: $225,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $221,200 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $210,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $210,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $210,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc: $201,667 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFWDUS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPROGRESS NOW INC: $200,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $200,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNEVADA ALLIANCE: $195,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFair Elections Center: $176,210 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $170,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED: $165,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $145,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $131,667 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $126,700 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $125,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $119,625 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc: $116,750 over 2y, 1.7% 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.

New Venture FundTides FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides AdvocacyAll Hands on Deck Net…Hopewell FundSixteen Thirty FundWay to Win Action Fun…The Ford FoundationPark Foundation IncWellspring Philanthro…
New Venture FundDC58.3× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Hopewell Fund · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · Park Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund 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 Goodnation Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goodnation Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Family Connections Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Global Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Community Service Care Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
51report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Goodnation Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Goodnation 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 280 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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