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Henderson Foundation

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.

$586k
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MHealth$706kArts & Culture$645kInternational$581kHuman Services$348kFood & Nutrition$241kPublic Benefit$196kCivil Rights$172kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k57 grants · $170k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $196k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $221k
$4,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIONHEART CLASSICAL ACADEMY$100,000
MT AUBURN HOSPITAL$70,000
SILENT BRIDGE$51,000
THE ASSOCIATION OF FOREIGN PRESS CORRESPONDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES$24,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$23,000
SD USA$23,000
SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$22,500
SALVATION ARMY$15,000
AMERICAN AGRI-WOMEN RESOURCE CENTER$15,000
SACO RIVER THEATRE$13,000
UNITED HELP UKRAINE$10,000
NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL$10,000
ACCURACY IN MEDIA$10,000
HALO TRUST$10,000
CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $453k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ANNIE CANNONS: $1k → 14%QUEST CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH: $26k → 12%CHILD LIBERATION FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%SILENT BRIDGE: $51k → 9%DIAKONIA INC: $5k → 8%ANNIE CANNONS: $1k → 14%QUEST CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH: $23k → 12%VISION HOUSE: $1k → 9%SILENT BRIDGE: $34k → 9%QUEST CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH: $23k → 12%VISION HOUSE: $1k → 9%SILENT BRIDGE: $24k → 9%QUEST CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH: $23k → 12%QUEST CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH: $23k → 12%PROJECT QUEST: $21k → 12%CARING UNLIMITED: $2k → 9%QUEST CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH: $20k → 12%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $10k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $2k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $2k → 7%NEADS: $8k → 11%STOW FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%NEADS: $6k → 11%STOW FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%NEADS: $5k → 11%STOW FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%NEADS: $5k → 11%STOW FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%NEADS: $5k → 11%STOW FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%NEADS: $5k → 11%NEADS: $5k → 11%NEADS: $5k → 11%ASIA INITIATIVES: $20k → 17%ASIA INITIATIVES: $4k → 17%SPRINGWELL: $1k → 8%FRIENDS OF SUDBURY SENIOR CITIZENS: $1k → 8%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE SUDBURY SENIOR CITIZENS: $1k → 8%EDINBURGH CENTRE: $1k → 8%EDINBURGH CENTRE: $1k → 8%EDINBURGH CENTRE: $1k → 8%EDINBURGH CENTRE: $1k → 8%EDINBURGH CENTRE: $1k → 8%EDINBURGH CENTRE: $1k → 8%VINFEN: $1k → 8%VINFEN: $1k → 8%VINFEN: $1k → 8%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 132 repeat orgs$585k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

132 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

132
80

Total granted

$3.8M
$476k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+16%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TS
    THE SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +607% · 52% of their budget
  • PQ
    PROJECT QUEST
    7× · 2017–2023 · $159k · revenue +78%
  • PV
    PROJECT VERITAS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • CL
    Child Liberation Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue ×13
  • PP
    POLARIS PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue -31%
  • NY
    NEW YORK FAMILY ENTERPRISE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
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
5
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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6
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
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
10
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
11
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
12
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Albert & Mary Lasker 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.
04the grantee network

143 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. 143 of the 232 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
135/143
Grantees still filing
100/143
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $296,000 · OtherMT AUBURN HOSPITALLIONHEART CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $209,000 · OtherLIONHEART CLASSICAL ACADEMYPROJECT VERITAS: $135,000 · OtherPROJECT VERITASSALVATION ARMY: $120,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAMERICAN AGRI-WOMEN RESOURCE CENTER: $75,000 · Other+114 more: $1,376,200 · Other+114 moreTHE SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $171,500 · EducationTHE SALISBURY SCHOOL…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $125,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmout…ITHACA COLLEGE: $47,000 · EducationITHACA COLLEGETHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $42,500 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $42,500 · EducationWellesley College: $42,000 · EducationBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $35,000 · EducationWELLS COLLEGE: $35,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $33,000 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $28,000 · EducationBowdoin College: $27,500 · Education+17 more: $195,000 · Education+17 morePROJECT QUEST: $159,400 · Human ServicesPROJECT QUE…SILENTBRIDGE: $108,500 · Human ServicesSILENTBRIDG…Child Liberation Foundation Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesChild Liber…NEADS INC: $43,500 · Human ServicesNEADS INCAsia Initiatives: $24,000 · Human Services+10 more: $51,000 · Human Services+10 moreCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $235,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR …AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL: $72,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FO…POLARIS PROJECT: $44,000 · InternationalPOLARIS PRO…International Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 · InternationalInternation…THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $25,000 · InternationalTHE INSTITU…+7 more: $52,000 · International+7 moreTHE BOSTON WOODWIND SOCIETY INC: $78,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BOSTO…The Saco River Theatre: $69,000 · Arts & CultureThe Saco …ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $55,400 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOU…OpenStage Theatre and Co Inc: $42,500 · Arts & CultureOpenStage…ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC: $34,000 · Arts & CultureACCURACY …OPERA FORT COLLINS INC: $30,500 · Arts & CultureOPERA FOR…Public Radio for the Front Range: $28,500 · Arts & CulturePublic Ra…+8 more: $53,500 · Arts & Culture+8 moreFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $90,000 · Food & NutritionWESTFORD FOOD INC CO WESTFORD FOOD PANTRY: $9,000 · Food & NutritionThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $3,500 · Food & NutritionMonadnock Community Hospital: $32,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $20,500 · HealthOLD FRIENDS CLUB: $18,000 · HealthRECOVERY WITHOUT WALLS INC: $18,000 · HealthCheshire Health Foundation: $11,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · Health
Other$2,211,200Education$824,000Human Services$461,400International$453,000Arts & Culture$391,400Food & Nutrition$112,500Health$101,500

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 budgetCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $235,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $171,500 over 8y, 52% of budgetPROJECT QUEST: $159,400 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $135,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $125,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSILENTBRIDGE: $108,500 over 3y, 29% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOSTON WOODWIND SOCIETY INC: $78,000 over 6y, 68% of budgetAMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL: $72,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Saco River Theatre: $69,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $55,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $47,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT: $44,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEADS INC: $43,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOpenStage Theatre and Co Inc: $42,500 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $42,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $42,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $42,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetACCURACY IN MEDIA INC: $34,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMonadnock Community Hospital: $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA FORT COLLINS INC: $30,500 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetPublic Radio for the Front Range: $28,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $28,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBowdoin College: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN GEE CHIN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONC/O CALVIN CHIN TRUSTEE: $27,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BOSTON INC: $25,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThe Versailles Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF FOREIGN PRESS CORRESP IN THE USA (AFPC-USA): $24,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAsia Initiatives: $24,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON EDUCATION & SQUASH ACADEMY FORMERLY SEATTLE URBAN SQUASH: $19,400 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOLD FRIENDS CLUB: $18,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetRECOVERY WITHOUT WALLS INC: $18,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROSALIND FRANKLIN SOCIETY INC: $15,500 over 3y, 12% 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 CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT QUEST ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds SILENTBRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds THE BOSTON WOODWIND SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Child Liberation Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds The Saco River Theatre ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds NEADS INC ↗
  • Who funds OpenStage Theatre and Co Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Monadnock Community Hospital ↗
  • Who funds OPERA FORT COLLINS INC ↗
  • Who funds Public Radio for the Front Range ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Boston Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · The William H Donner Foundation Inc · William D Lynch Foundation For Children · The Jebediah Foundation 7563-Xxxxxx00129 · Eric Javits 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 Henderson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henderson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Vinfen Corporation: 83% of income from government
  • The Edinburg Center Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Minuteman Senior Services Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Springwell Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Diakonia Inc: 51% of income from government
  • The Parents' Place of Maryland Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Walden Woods Project: 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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 232 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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