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Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$5.6M
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 2025.

Environment$55MHealth$32MEducation$14MPhilanthropy$9.6MInternational$5.6MArts & Culture$3.7MRecreation & Sports$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.9MOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $325k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+7 grants · $10.0M
$15,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GROWALD CLIMATE FUND$5,593,975
EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION$1,666,667
BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL$1,000,000
SHATTERPROOF$650,000
ROOT CAPITAL INC$500,000
YALE UNITVERSITY-VECTOR BORNE DISEASES$300,000
CALDER PHILLY CP2023--NEBAUER$250,000
IFB SOLUTIONS$200,000
ATHLETES FOR HOPE$200,000
CENTER FOR MIND BODY MEDICINE$150,000
RD MEETING INC$150,000
IMAGINE WORLDWIDE$150,000
FDR MEMORIAL LEGACY COMMITTEENATIONAL COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT LIVING$125,000
WILLIAM RICE UNIVERSITY$100,000
STRIVE$100,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FULFILL: $2k → 6%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $10k → 6%FULFILL: $1k → 6%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $10k → 6%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $10k → 6%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $10k → 6%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $1.0M → 7%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $3k → 6%ANCHOR HOUSE FOUNDATION: $521 → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $391k → 7%Anchor House Foundation: $500 → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $260k → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $110k → 7%PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENER: $250k → 11%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $3k → 6%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $1k → 6%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 7%Challenge Aspen: $1k → 6%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $1k → 6%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICES: $5k → 11%YWCA PRINCETON: $3k → 11%Princeton Senior Resource Center: $2k → 11%ON THE RISE: $10k → 8%ON THE RISE: $10k → 8%ON THE RISE: $10k → 8%PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $415 → 11%ON THE RISE: $10k → 8%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ON THE RISE: $1k → 8%On the Rise: $1k → 8%CENTER 353: $40k → 11%COMMUNITY JUSTICE CENTER: $15k → 11%THE MAKER'S PLACE: $1k → 11%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $2k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $1k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $1k → 17%National Urban League: $1k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 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

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VT
NH
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$121M · 143 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

143 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 90 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

143
114

Total granted

$121M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+22%

Still filing today

65%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $795k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $15M · revenue +49%
  • GROTON SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +21%
  • SA
    SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +243%

Funded once

  • A
    ACRONYM
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • GW
    GREATER WASGINGTON EDUCATION FDN
    one grant, 2021 · $487k
  • JL
    JACKSON LAB
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
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
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
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
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. 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

141 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. 141 of the 275 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
138/141
Grantees still filing
98/141
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GROWALD CLIMATE FUND: $31,791,011 · OtherGROWALD CLIMATE FUNDEUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION: $10,000,001 · OtherEUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATIONMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $5,033,333 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC: $4,053,000 · OtherTHE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INCUniversity of Vermont: $3,000,220 · Other+121 more: $18,561,129 · Other+121 moreTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $14,574,555 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGH…SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,850,000 · HealthSHATTERPROOF A NONP…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $2,260,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INCTHE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE: $1,555,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR MIND…+12 more: $1,119,000 · HealthGROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC: $10,593,975 · PhilanthropyGROWALD C…+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGROTON SCHOOL: $5,072,500 · EducationHOMEFRONT INC: $1,800,000 · EducationYale University: $950,000 · Education+16 more: $1,636,100 · EducationMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $5,700,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $895,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS: $310,000 · Environment+6 more: $444,999 · EnvironmentROOT CAPITAL INC: $2,300,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $90,000 · International+2 more: $76,500 · InternationalMuseum of Modern Art: $383,333 · Arts & CultureGREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $309,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $280,000 · Arts & CultureGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $276,000 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES OF CALDER GARDENS: $250,536 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $210,000 · Arts & CultureFUTURE VISION FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 · Arts & CultureEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC: $92,500 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $415,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$72,438,694Health$22,358,555Philanthropy$10,613,975Education$9,458,600Environment$7,349,999International$2,466,500Arts & Culture$2,386,369

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 budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $14,574,555 over 6y, 19% of budgetGROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC: $10,593,975 over 2y, 13% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $5,700,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $5,072,500 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetTHE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC: $4,053,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,850,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetROOT CAPITAL INC: $2,300,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $2,260,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $1,800,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,773,500 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE: $1,555,000 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetATHLETES FOR HOPE: $1,123,543 over 9y, 15% of budgetYale University: $950,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $895,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetACRONYM: $500,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $422,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPRESIDIO GRADUATE SCHOOL: $414,290 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetMIRACLEFEET: $400,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $383,333 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $310,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $309,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRD MEETING INC: $300,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $280,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $276,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetPRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON: $251,500 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CALDER GARDENS: $250,536 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $225,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRESEARCHAMERICA: $220,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $210,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetROOTED ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $199,999 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWILDAID INC: $165,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAchilles International Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $150,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMERON AND HAYDEN LORD FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetADVANCED MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCD/B/A NILE ALBRIGHT RESEARCH FDN: $100,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC: $92,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD: $90,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC: $70,800 over 2y, 2.4% 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 FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ROOT CAPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds ATHLETES FOR HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACRONYM ↗
  • Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDIO GRADUATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLEFEET ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
  • Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds RD MEETING INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE 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.

Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ34.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Gordon & Llura Gund 1993 Charitable Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Tenacre Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The J Robert & Barbara A Hillier Foundation Inc · Twin Chimney Inc · The Snyder Family Fund

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 Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Institute for Nursing Inc: 73% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Community Justice Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • Grounds for Sculpture Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Artists Association of Nantucket Inc: 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
25get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation 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 275 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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