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Julie & Doug Baker Jr 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$192k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$4.7MArts & Culture$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.4MHuman Services$1.4MReligion$1.1MHealth$862kEnvironment$556kCrime & Legal$400kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $882k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$192,000
WAY TO GROW$170,000
GREAT MN SCHOOLS$150,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$140,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$80,000
EDALLIES$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$50,000
YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS$30,000
WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS$30,000
BABY'S SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW$30,000
BANYAN FOUNDATION$30,000
OASIS FOR YOUTH$15,000
MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART$15,000
EDINA GIVENGO$15,000
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 (FY17–24, $951k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 12%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $30k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $20k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $9k → 11%LIONS INK: $10k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%THINK SMALL: $30k → 14%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $5k → 11%THINK SMALL: $25k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $65k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $65k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $150k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $500 → 11%BABY'S SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $30k → 11%BABY'S SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $3k → 11%BABYS SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $2k → 11%BABY'S SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $2k → 11%BABYS SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $2k → 11%BABY'S SPACE: $2k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $1k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $170k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $118k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $80k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $54k → 11%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

ME
NH
MN
IL
WI
MA
OH
UT
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 57 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
37

Total granted

$11M
$946k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+18%

Still filing today

77%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    4× · 2017–2023 · $770k · revenue +44%
  • WT
    WAY TO GROW
    6× · 2017–2024 · $552k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +31%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +31%
  • N
    NEON
    one grant, 2022 · $100k

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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

4
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

5
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

6
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
7
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

8
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
9
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
10
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
11
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
12
Minnesota Comeback

Driven by an unwavering moral imperative that every child, regardless of its race, income or zip code, deserves the same high-quality education, mn comeback has become a growing movement of philanthropists, community leaders and education…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Roland Park Community 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.

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 backsteadyYouth & Community Music Pro…Independent SchoolsFaith-Based Youth Empowerme…Disability Services & Emplo…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Performing Arts O…Family FoundationsImmigrant and Ethnic Commun…Minnesota Community Foundat…
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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr20%20%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr20%22%20–35yr14%5%35–55yr13%59%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/82
the rest of the field
13%
2,893/21,928

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

79 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. 79 of the 103 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/79
Grantees still filing
51/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE -- — $1,235,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE --ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $1,014,000 · OtherST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCHTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $530,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCATHOLIC CHARITIES — $375,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESIndividual grant recipient — $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTwin Cities Rise — $260,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $250,000 · Other+44 more — $1,173,500 · Other+44 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY — $1,030,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $770,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF…GREAT MN SCHOOLS — $550,000 · EducationGREAT MN SCHOOLSUniversity of St Thomas — $320,000 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas+13 more — $389,500 · Education+13 moreMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $1,210,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA OR…THE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART — $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM O…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $63,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $600,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWI…THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $492,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAP…The Constellation Fund — $300,000 · PhilanthropyThe Constel…+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyWAY TO GROW — $551,900 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $150,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $64,000 · Human ServicesThink Small — $55,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $50,000 · Human ServicesBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW — $40,500 · Human Services+6 more — $39,500 · Human ServicesMAYO CLINIC — $800,000 · Health+7 more — $52,000 · HealthNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $400,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$5,138,000Education$3,059,500Arts & Culture$1,453,000Philanthropy$1,397,000Human Services$950,900Health$852,000Crime & Legal$400,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $1,210,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $1,030,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $800,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $770,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $600,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWAY TO GROW — $551,900 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS — $550,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $492,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $400,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $320,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Constellation Fund — $300,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTwin Cities Rise — $260,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $105,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART — $105,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCLOSE GAPS BY 5 — $100,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetUPTURNSHIPS INC — $90,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $78,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEd Allies — $72,500 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $64,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEDINA GIVE AND GO — $62,500 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThink Small — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW — $40,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation — $40,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH — $34,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENUMBRA THEATRE COMPANY INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKIPP Minnesota — $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROTEZ FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY CROSS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLion's Fire — $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% 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 MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY
  • Who funds WAY TO GROW
  • Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS
  • Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE
  • Who funds University of St Thomas
  • Who funds The Constellation Fund
  • Who funds Twin Cities Rise
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH
  • Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART
  • Who funds CLOSE GAPS BY 5
  • Who funds UPTURNSHIPS INC
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC
  • Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC
  • Who funds Ed Allies
  • Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS
  • Who funds EDINA GIVE AND GO
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Think Small
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON
  • Who funds BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW
  • Who funds The Banyan Foundation

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 Minneapolis FoundationMN61.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Wem Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Frey Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Julie & Doug Baker Jr 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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How do I get to Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Julie & Doug Baker Jr 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 103 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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