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Lee Bank Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$209k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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 FY20212025.

Arts & Culture$191kFood & Nutrition$120kCommunity Improvement$117kHealth$83kHuman Services$74kHousing & Shelter$53kEducation$50kEmployment$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $169k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSTRUCT$10,000
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$10,000
ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER$10,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE- VIM BERKSHIRES$10,000
BERKSHIRE FILM & MEDIA COLLABORATIVE$7,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WESTERN MA$7,500
DOWNTOWN PITTSFIELD CULTURAL ASSOCIATION$7,500
ROOT RISING$7,500
BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES$7,500
SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES$7,500
BERKSHIRE GROWN$7,500
PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER$6,000
COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS$5,700
SONRISAS$5,000
BLACKSHIRES COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION$5,000
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, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HILLTOWN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH: $3k → 12%RIVERBROOK RESIDENCE: $2k → 12%BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT: $3k → 12%BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT: $3k → 12%BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT: $3k → 12%BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT: $1k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $13k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $6k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $4k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES: $1k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $5k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $5k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $4k → 12%BERKSHIRE COUNTY ARC: $2k → 12%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.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$726k · 48 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
37

Total granted

$726k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+20%

Still filing today

92%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • EF
    ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +43%
  • COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +143%
  • BC
    BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $37k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • PP
    PITTSFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CENTRAL BERKSHIREgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +55%
  • TB
    THE BERKSHIRE FAMILY YMCA
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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
Berkshire Education and Correction Services Inc
Crime & Legal
2
Berk County Regional Employment Board

To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.

Employment
3
1BERKSHIRE Strategic Alliance Inc

To strengthen and grow the berkshire economy using an innovative collaborative approach among the region's business, tourism, economic, and creative development efforts.

Community Improvement
4
Berks Arts Council

The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.

Arts & Culture
5
Berkshire Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Berkshire Carousel Inc

To own and operate a carousel for public use in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Arts & Culture
7
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
8
Berkshire Dance Theatre Inc

The organization is dedicated to providing the highest quality dance and performing arts education. the joy, confidence and mutual respect our students gain enhance their communities and continue to guide them throughout their lives.

Arts & Culture
9
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
10
IS183 Inc

IS183, Inc. (dba Berkshire Art Center) is a nonprofit community art school encouraging people of all ages, means and skill levels to enrich their lives through hands on experience in the visual arts.

Arts & Culture
11
Berkshire Opera Festival Inc

Entertain and enrich the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds throughout the berkshire region by providing accessible and affordable performances of a broad range of operas with the highest artistic standards.

Arts & Culture
12
Boston Library Consortium Inc

Boston library consortium, inc. (the organization or "blc") was incorporated in 1977 as amassachusetts not-for-profit corporation. blc is a library consortium serving public and privateuniversities, liberal arts colleges, state libraries,…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc and the most unlike its peers is Walking Our Talk. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr12%15%5–10yr17%18%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr15%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr12%14%5–10yr17%15%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr15%13%35–55yr15%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/73
the rest of the field
9%
96/1,075

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

67 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. 67 of the 95 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
48/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC — $42,500 · OtherELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INCBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $36,800 · OtherBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC18 DEGREES INC — $31,500 · Other18 DEGREES INCMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS — $20,000 · OtherPITTSFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $16,000 · OtherFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 · OtherBERKSHIRE SOUTH REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $30,000 · OtherBERKSHIRE SOUTH REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER INC+50 more — $271,550 · Other+50 moreROOTS RISING INC — $32,500 · Food & NutritionROOTS RISING I…BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRES BOU…GREENAGERS INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionGREENAGERS INCBERKSHIRE GROWN INC — $22,500 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE GROW…BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC — $12,500 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE AGRI…+1 more — $2,000 · Food & NutritionTRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM — $21,000 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES O…THE DOWNTOWN PITTSFIELD CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DOWNTO…MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $13,500 · Arts & CultureMAHAIWE PE…Sonrisas Inc — $9,100 · Arts & CultureSonrisas I…MUSIC IN COMMON INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC IN C…BERKSHIRE CHILDRENS CHORUS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE …BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $4,000 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE PULSE INC — $3,500 · Arts & CultureWAM THEATRE INC — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $8,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC — $38,200 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesBERKSHIRE…Berkshire Community Diaper Project — $8,500 · Human ServicesBerkshire…NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesNONPROFIT…BERKSHIRE COUNTY ARC INC — $3,250 · Human ServicesKRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH — $2,500 · Human ServicesHILLTOWN VILLAGE — $2,500 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC — $35,000 · HealthVOLUNTEER…BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC — $15,000 · HealthBERKSHIRE…THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES — $10,000 · HealthTHE BRIEN…PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $6,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC…BERKSHIRE COALITION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION INC — $5,000 · HealthBERKSHIRE…+1 more — $2,000 · HealthCONSTRUCT INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CENTRAL BERKSHIRE — $12,500 · Housing & ShelterBERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER INC — $30,000 · EmploymentEXTRASPECIALTEAS INC — $8,000 · Employment
Other$473,350Food & Nutrition$119,500Arts & Culture$87,600Human Services$74,950Health$73,000Housing & Shelter$42,500Employment$38,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC — $42,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC — $38,200 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $36,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetROOTS RISING INC — $32,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budget18 DEGREES INC — $31,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER INC — $30,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCONSTRUCT INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBERKSHIRE SOUTH REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC — $25,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGREENAGERS INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE GROWN INC — $22,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM — $21,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN PITTSFIELD CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetRAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC — $14,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $13,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $13,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CENTRAL BERKSHIRE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLATINAS413 INC — $12,300 over 2y, 14% of budgetBERKSHIRE CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $11,500 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetLiteracy Network of South Berkshire Inc — $11,250 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SOUTH BERKSHIRE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSonrisas Inc — $9,100 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBerkshire Community Diaper Project — $8,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetEXTRASPECIALTEAS INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBECKET ATHENAEUM INC — $6,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBERKSHIRE BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC IN COMMON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBERKSHIRE CHILDRENS CHORUS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE BERKSHIRES AND SOUTHERN VERMONT INC — $4,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC — $4,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBERKSHIRE PULSE INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTY ARC INC — $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAM THEATRE INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 4.6% 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.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA112.4× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Gilson Family Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation · The Buchwald Family 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 Lee Bank Foundation Inc 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 · 110%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Berkshire County Arc Inc90% of income from government
  • Extraspecialteas Inc83% of income from government
  • Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc76% of income from government
  • Riverbrook Residence Inc76% of income from government
  • 18 Degrees Inc60% of income from government
  • Child Care of the Berkshires Inc59% of income from government
  • Railroad Street Youth Project Inc45% of income from government
  • Pediatric Development Center Inc37% of income from government
  • Second Street Second Chances Inc33% of income from government
  • Berkshire Grown Inc28% of income from government
  • Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc18% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc10% of income from government
  • Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc9% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc7% of income from government
  • Hilltown Village7% of income from government
  • Flying Cloud Institute Inc6% of income from government
  • Roots Rising Inc6% of income from government
  • Berkshire Innovation Center Inc5% of income from government
  • Wam Theatre Inc4% of income from government
  • Construct Inc4% of income from government
  • Roots Teen Center Inc3% of income from government
  • Berkshire Childrens Chorus Inc3% of income from government
  • Community Access to the Arts Inc2% of income from government
  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc2% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc2% of income from government
  • Sonrisas Inc1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Pulse Inc1% of income from government
  • Shakespeare & Company Inc1% of income from government
  • Becket Athenaeum Inc1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Theatre Group Inc1% of income from government
  • Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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.

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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lee Bank Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lee Bank Foundation Inc 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 95 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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