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John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundation at a glance

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John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.0MArts & Culture$900kHuman Services$890kYouth Development$784kHealth$675kHousing & Shelter$480kPhilanthropy$365kCrime & Legal$340kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k38 grants · $975k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO ATLANTA$75,000
OPEN HAND$50,000
COOL GIRLS$35,000
ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION$35,000
FAMILIES FIRST$30,000
TREES ATLANTA$25,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER$25,000
CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS$25,000
CORNERS OUTREACH$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
KIDZ2LEADERS$25,000
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$25,000
LEAP YEAR$25,000
BEARINGS BIKE WORKS$25,000
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 (FY19–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILIES FIRST: $20k → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $25k → 13%FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA: $20k → 14%ATLANTA MISSION: $25k → 14%QUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 13%REIMAGINE ATL: $40k → 13%KATE'S CLUB: $35k → 13%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER: $30k → 13%MULTI-AGENCY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $30k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST: $30k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $29k → 13%KATE'S CLUB: $25k → 13%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 13%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $25k → 13%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $25k → 13%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER: $25k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $25k → 13%REIMAGINE ATL: $25k → 13%CARINGWORKS INC: $25k → 13%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $25k → 13%AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER: $25k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $25k → 13%QUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 13%BEARINGS BIKE WORKS: $25k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $25k → 13%FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA: $25k → 13%CHRIS 180: $25k → 13%FRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHILDREN: $25k → 13%AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER: $25k → 13%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $25k → 13%CARINGWORKS INC: $25k → 13%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER: $25k → 13%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $25k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $25k → 13%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $25k → 13%AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER: $25k → 13%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 13%FRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHILDREN: $25k → 13%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $25k → 13%CARINGWORKS INC: $25k → 13%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 70 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
29

Total granted

$5.2M
$840k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+14%

Still filing today

81%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)
    4× · 2019–2023 · $125k · revenue +8%
  • OH
    OUR HOUSE INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $120k · revenue +120%
  • CC
    Crossroads Community Ministries Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +200%

Funded once

  • AS
    Atlanta Speech School Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • AB
    ATLANTA BALLET INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +12%
  • TS
    THE SHELTERING ARMS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +11%
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
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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2
Leadership Atlanta Inc

It is the mission of leadership atlanta to build a better community for everyone in the atlanta region through education about the key issues facing the region and inspiring members and others to take on and exercise real leadership…

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3
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
4
Elevate Atlanta Inc

Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.

Education
5
The Atlanta Academy Inc

Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.

Education
6
Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services
7
Hope Atlanta Inc

Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.

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8
Breakthrough Atlanta

Breakthrough atlanta pursues a dual mission: to increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved students and get them into college ready to succeed; and inspire and develop the next generation of teachers and educational…

Education
9
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
10
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
11
Atlanta Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Atlanta Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc.'s mission: To educate the community and to recruit, train and supervise court appointed volunteers to advocate for the best interest, safety and permanent placement of abused and neglected…

Civil Rights
12
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Community Advanced Practice Nursesinc. 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

89 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. 89 of the 108 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/89
Grantees still filing
58/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $300,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTAALLIANCE THEATRE COMPANY: $300,000 · OtherALLIANCE THEATRE COMPANYOUR HOUSE INC: $120,000 · OtherANDREW P STEWART CENTEER: $105,000 · Other+50 more: $2,305,000 · Other+50 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $125,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…Crossroads Community Ministries Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads Community …MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CE…MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $78,500 · Human ServicesMOVING IN THE SPIRIT …WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND …QUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesQUALITY CARE FOR CHIL…CaringWorks Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesCaringWorks IncAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING C…REIMAGINE ATL: $65,000 · Human ServicesREIMAGINE ATLKATE'S CLUB INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesBEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHILDREN TOO INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $45,000 · Human Services+2 more: $55,000 · Human ServicesBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girl…HORIZONS ATLANTA INC: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS AT…EAST ATLANTA KIDS CLUB INC: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentEAST ATLANT…CORNERS OUTREACH LLC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCORNERS OUT…COOL GIRLS INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOOL GIRLS …LOS NIOS PRIMERO INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOS NIOS PR…LaAmistad Inc: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentLaAmistad I…NEXT GENERATION MEN & WOMEN INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEXT GENERA…CAMP KUDZU INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W …ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA M…WYLDE CENTER INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureWYLDE CEN…ATLANTA BALLET INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA B…THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILD…OUT OF HAND THEATER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureOUT OF HA…TRUE COLORS THEATRE COMPANY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTRUE COLO…DANCE CANVAS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE CAN…CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAtlanta Speech School Inc: $100,000 · EducationTHE ELAINE CLARK CENTER INC: $50,000 · EducationLEAP YEAR INC: $50,000 · EducationODYSSEY INC: $50,000 · EducationCOLLEGE AIM INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $25,000 · EducationThe Kindezi School Inc: $20,000 · EducationRAISING EXPECTATIONS INC: $15,000 · EducationGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $95,000 · Crime & LegalATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN RECIPE INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,130,000Human Services$1,208,500Youth Development$670,000Arts & Culture$515,000Education$360,000Crime & Legal$305,000Food & Nutrition$235,000

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 budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCrossroads Community Ministries Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $95,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetHORIZONS ATLANTA INC: $95,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSCOTTDALE EARLY LEARNING INC: $90,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEAST ATLANTA KIDS CLUB INC: $90,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $80,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $78,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNOBIS WORKS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC: $75,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLEKOTEK OF GEORGIA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetFUGEES FAMILY INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetQUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCaringWorks Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $75,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCORNERS OUTREACH LLC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAgape Community Center: $70,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREIMAGINE ATL: $65,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetEARLY LEARNING PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC: $65,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWYLDE CENTER INC: $65,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetURBAN RECIPE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetATLANTA BALLET INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN MOVING ON INC WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER TO END DV: $60,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKATE'S CLUB INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOOL GIRLS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE STUDY HALL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOUT OF HAND THEATER: $50,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ELAINE CLARK CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEAP YEAR INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetLOS NIOS PRIMERO INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetODYSSEY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLaAmistad Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 1.5% 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.

The Imlay Foundation …The Community Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainUnited Way of Greater…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Waterfall Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…Tull Charitable Found…AEC TrustThe Sartain Lanier Fa…The Richard C Munroe …Tw Marian W Ottley At…
The Imlay Foundation IncGA122.3× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main

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 John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    0get no government money at all
    41report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable 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 108 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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