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Hfo 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.

$9.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
90
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Health$4.0MEducation$2.5MInternational$2.4MFood & Nutrition$2.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.6MHuman Services$1.5MEnvironment$1.1MRecreation & Sports$545kOther$0
02FY2025 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $293k
  • $50k–250k68 grants · $6.3M
  • $250k+9 grants · $2.5M
$100,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$141M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$500,000
HOME FOR OUR TROOPS$251,650
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ$250,000
GLOBAL GIVING$250,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$250,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ$250,000
HURRICANE MELISSA RELIEF FUND$250,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ$250,000
BABY QUEST FOUNDATION$250,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION NEW JERSEY$200,000
YORK STREET PROJECT$200,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$200,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$200,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$200,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY FOR GLOBAL GHOST GEAR$200,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 10%SECOND HELPINGS: $200k → 10%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $25k → 17%SECOND HELPINGS: $100k → 10%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 12%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $25k → 17%SECOND HELPINGS: $50k → 10%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 12%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $25k → 17%SECOND HELPINGS: $43k → 10%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 12%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $25k → 17%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 12%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $20k → 17%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $100k → 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $100k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
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CA
VA
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TN
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HI
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 41 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
22

Total granted

$14M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-13%

Still filing today

66%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +26%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +167%
  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $850k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISASTER RELIEF
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • LV
    LEHIGH VALLEY ATHLETIC CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
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
9
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.

10
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
11
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
12
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc and the most unlike its peers is Independence Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,506

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 97 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
30/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIDGE TO TURKIYE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM — $1,435,900 · OtherBRIDGE TO TURKIYE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC — $490,000 · OtherAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INCLEHIGH VALLEY WRESTLING CLUB — $445,000 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY WRESTLING CLUBOCEAN CONSERVANCY FOR GLOBAL GHOST GEAR — $300,000 · OtherYORK STREET PROJECT — $300,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · Other+55 more — $4,699,650 · Other+55 moreGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,100,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATIO…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN …DIRECT RELIEF — $725,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFSave The Children Federation Inc — $350,000 · InternationalSave The Children Fede…RAINFOREST TRUST — $250,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUST+2 more — $160,000 · InternationalMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC — $700,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH …Baby Quest Foundation Inc — $575,000 · HealthBaby Quest F…ADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION — $150,000 · HealthADULT CONGEN…CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · HealthCHRISTOPHER …THE SHARING NETWORK FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthLewy Body Dementia Association Inc — $100,000 · HealthMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Health+2 more — $100,000 · HealthLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $850,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNI…INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION — $350,000 · EducationINDEPENDEN…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $250,000 · EducationTRUSTEES O…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA …+2 more — $100,000 · Education+2 moreCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $1,352,925 · Food & NutritionCommunity…SECOND HELPINGS INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HE…TABLE TO TABLE INC — $79,760 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $50,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HELPINGS — $393,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES — $300,000 · Human ServicesALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO — $200,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $120,000 · Human Services+1 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $175,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $75,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $75,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · Environment
Other$7,970,550International$3,585,000Health$1,975,000Education$1,700,000Food & Nutrition$1,582,685Human Services$1,038,000Environment$425,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $1,352,925 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $850,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $725,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC — $700,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetBaby Quest Foundation Inc — $575,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC — $490,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS — $393,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $350,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES — $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYORK STREET PROJECT — $300,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $251,650 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOGS FOR LIFE INC — $175,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION — $150,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $120,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC — $103,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWE MAKE AUTISM AT WORK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ATHLETIC CLUB — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNAMI NEW JERSEY — $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNEW JERSEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE INC — $79,760 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONMOUTH COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHomeWorks Trenton — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetI AM ALS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEA TURTLE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC
  • Who funds Baby Quest Foundation Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC
  • Who funds SECOND HELPINGS
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc
  • Who funds INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds YORK STREET PROJECT
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST
  • Who funds ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds DOGS FOR LIFE INC
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC
  • Who funds THE WATER PROJECT INC
  • Who funds COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC
  • Who funds THE SHARING NETWORK FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationNJ20.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Columbia Bank Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Hfo Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Center for Family Services73% of income from government
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation49% of income from government
  • York Street Project32% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc9% of income from government
  • HomeWorks Trenton6% of income from government
  • We Make Autism at Work Inc2% of income from government
  • Count Basie Theatre Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
12report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hfo Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hfo 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 97 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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