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Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$903k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.9MFood & Nutrition$510kEducation$405kHealth$341kAnimals$315kHuman Services$288kPhilanthropy$200kEmployment$174kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $455k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE$250,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$50,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE$50,000
MILWAUKEE PBS$40,000
ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC$35,000
CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC - MILWAUKEE$30,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$30,000
HALES CORNERS LIBRARY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
HALES CORNERS FIRE DEPARTMENT$20,000
MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$20,000
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER$20,000
VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION$20,000
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE$20,000
TEENS GROW GREENS INC$15,000
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 (FY20–25, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%CHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN: $5k → 5%CHOSEN INC: $5k → 5%CHOSEN INC: $5k → 5%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER INC: $5k → 10%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 5%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 5%ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC: $35k → 5%ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC: $35k → 5%ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC: $35k → 5%ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC: $30k → 5%ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC: $25k → 5%ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC: $25k → 5%MUSKEGO SENIOR TAXI SERVICE: $10k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 17%WALKER'S POINT YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER INC: $5k → 17%WALKER'S POINT YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER INC: $5k → 17%KIDS MATTER INC: $5k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $8k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $5k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 17%TOSA CARES INC: $4k → 17%SECURE FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%SECURE FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%SECURE FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%SECURE FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%TOSA CARES INC: $4k → 17%KIDS MATTER INC: $5k → 17%KIDS MATTER INC: $5k → 17%DOWN SYNDROM ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $5k → 17%DOWN SYNDROM ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $5k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN INC: $3k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN INC: $3k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 73 repeat orgs$403k to everyone else

73 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
22

Total granted

$4.6M
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+30%

Still filing today

81%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • HH
    Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $875k · revenue +301%
  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +24%
  • ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $295k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • BB
    BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $77k · revenue +6%
  • WA
    WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE AND TRUCK DEALERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • SS
    SPECIAL SPACES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment
2
Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment
3
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.

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4
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
5
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
6
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
7
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
8
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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9
Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.

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10
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
11
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
12
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ms - Just Keep Moving 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

79 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. 79 of the 110 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/79
Grantees still filing
57/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $340,000 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE INCMILWAUKEE PBS: $200,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE PBSEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $145,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONVILLAGE OF HALES CORNERS: $104,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILW INC: $100,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF HALES CORNERS-POLICE DEPARTMENT: $82,285 · OtherTEENS GROW GREENS INC: $83,000 · OtherSafe & Sound Inc: $75,000 · Other+58 more: $994,236 · Other+58 moreHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $875,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee IncMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $450,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INCFRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDEN…BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $76,770 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $101,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC: $185,000 · Human ServicesZACHARIAH'…UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COM…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $34,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAM…MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesKIDS MATTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN: $15,000 · Human Services+9 more: $66,000 · Human Services+9 moreZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY: $295,000 · AnimalsTHE FOUNDATION OF THE WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE & TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION: $120,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · EducationWISCONSIN MASONIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $17,500 · EducationMALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $15,000 · EducationDISCOVERY WORLD LTD: $11,000 · Education+2 more: $12,500 · EducationCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $42,500 · HealthPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC: $25,000 · HealthHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $10,000 · HealthMS - JUST KEEP MOVING INC: $5,600 · HealthVIVENT HEALTH INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$2,124,021Arts & Culture$1,597,770Human Services$447,500Animals$295,000Education$261,000Philanthropy$200,000Health$113,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $875,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $450,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $340,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY: $295,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $200,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC: $185,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE & TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION: $120,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $95,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetTEENS GROW GREENS INC: $83,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $76,770 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHope Center Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $42,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKINSHIP MKE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN MASONIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCITY ON A HILL INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC: $20,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetProject Concern of Cudahy-St Francis Inc: $18,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS MATTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE AND TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN: $15,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTBEY ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPrevent Blindness Wisconsin: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWALKER'S POINT YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSKEGO SENIOR TAXI SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 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 Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE & TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN MASONIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY ON A HILL INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS 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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI103.3× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · The Ros Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation 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 Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 110 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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