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John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation

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.

$6.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
115
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$5.8MEnvironment$3.7MArts & Culture$3.6MHealth$2.2MHuman Services$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.3MAnimals$970kOther$0
02FY2025 · 115 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k74 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.1M
$30,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Polytechnic School$500,000
National Outdoor Leadership School$500,000
Arboretum Foundation$475,000
Huntington Library$400,000
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation$250,000
National Parks Conservation Association$175,000
Richmond SPCA$175,000
Natural History Museum$166,667
Los Angeles Regional Foodbank$150,000
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association$125,000
Frostig Center$125,000
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$115,230
Hillsides$100,000
Salvation Army - California South Division$100,000
Jay Nolan Community Services$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Little Hands Virginia: $10k → 9%Angel City Sports: $50k → 14%Angel City Sports: $50k → 14%Angel City Sports: $50k → 14%Angel City Sports: $25k → 14%Hillsides: $100k → 14%Hillsides: $15k → 14%Hillsides: $15k → 14%Hillsides: $15k → 14%Hillsides: $15k → 14%Wayfinder Family Services: $30k → 14%Wayfinder Family Services: $25k → 14%Wayfinder Family Services: $25k → 14%Wayfinder Family Services: $20k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $50k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $50k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $40k → 14%Shepherd's Door: $10k → 14%Jay Nolan Community Services: $100k → 14%Shepherd's Door: $10k → 14%Jay Nolan Community Services: $100k → 14%Good Shepherd Center: $35k → 14%Good Shepherd Center: $35k → 14%Good Shepherd Center: $35k → 14%Children's Institute: $10k → 14%Bandini Foundation: $25k → 14%People Concern: $50k → 14%People Concern: $50k → 14%People Concern: $40k → 14%St Joseph Center: $40k → 14%People Concern: $30k → 14%St Joseph Center: $40k → 14%St Joseph Center: $40k → 14%St Joseph Center: $35k → 14%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

VT
ID
WY
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
DC
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 100 repeat orgs$517k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

100 repeat relationships: 84 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
7

Total granted

$21M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+7%

Still filing today

78%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth 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

  • NO
    NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +14%
  • PS
    POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +39%
  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +7%
  • LC
    LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • FC
    Flintridge Centergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +82%
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
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
2
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
3
Crestview Preparatory School

We believe childhood is extraordinary. crestview culitivates academic excellence by nurturing individual potential, empowering students to learn joyfully and discover their unique talents within our caring community that fosters belonging.…

Education
4
The Buckley School

The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…

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5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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6
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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7
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
8
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
9
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
10
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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11
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
12
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy; the most unlike its peers is Cares Corp. 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

99 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. 99 of the 125 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/99
Grantees still filing
73/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arboretum Foundation: $775,000 · OtherArboretum FoundationLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $530,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKMAYFIELD SENIOR SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $460,000 · OtherMAYFIELD SENIOR SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHI…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $428,572 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $400,000 · OtherRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $810,000 · OtherRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF…WESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $260,000 · Other+58 more: $4,132,500 · Other+58 morePOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $1,740,000 · EducationPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOLMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY: $430,000 · EducationMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF…NEW ROADS SCHOOL: $323,333 · EducationNEW ROADS SCHOOLPARK CENTURY SCHOOL: $255,000 · EducationPARK CENTURY SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $250,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS: $230,000 · EducationVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $205,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $180,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $160,000 · Education+13 more: $712,000 · Education+13 moreHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $1,400,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTIN…LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $450,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PH…THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA: $413,334 · Arts & CultureTHE NATURAL HI…THE COLBURN SCHOOL: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLBURN SC…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $180,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIF…CARES CORP: $110,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $110,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $1,930,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTD…NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $820,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARK…+1 more: $40,000 · EnvironmentChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $666,238 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $463,333 · HealthGLOBAL MOBILITY: $160,000 · HealthHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES: $145,000 · HealthYOUNG & HEALTHY: $120,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $115,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthJAY NOLAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesAngel City Alliance: $175,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $170,000 · Human ServicesHILLSIDES: $160,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CENTER: $155,000 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $140,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services: $100,000 · Human Services+5 more: $95,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $1,125,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$7,796,072Education$4,735,333Arts & Culture$2,963,334Environment$2,790,000Health$1,744,571Human Services$1,500,000Recreation & Sports$1,130,000

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 budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $1,930,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $1,740,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $1,400,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $1,125,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $820,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $810,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $666,238 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $530,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $463,333 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $450,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY: $430,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $428,572 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA: $413,334 over 4y, 60% of budgetNEW ROADS SCHOOL: $323,333 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $260,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPARK CENTURY SCHOOL: $255,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $230,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $205,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJAY NOLAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $180,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $180,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAngel City Alliance: $175,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $170,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL MOBILITY: $160,000 over 4y, 71% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE: $160,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSIDES: $160,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $155,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES: $145,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $130,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSt Anne School: $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG & HEALTHY: $120,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetONE ARROYO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 3y, 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 NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds NEW ROADS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds PARK CENTURY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds JAY NOLAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds Angel City Alliance ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL MOBILITY ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
  • Who funds HILLSIDES ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗

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.

Pasadena Community FoundationCA54.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Patron Saints Foundation · Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc · Robert a Waller 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 John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Landmark College Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation 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 125 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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