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Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$406k
Granted FY2024still arriving
87
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$521kHealth$518kHuman Services$363kArts & Culture$161kYouth Development$139kReligion$133kAnimals$121kPublic Safety & Disaster$118kOther$0
02FY2024 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k77 grants · $257k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $149k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT ANDREW'S SEWANEE SCHOOL$25,000
MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITA$25,000
Individual grant recipient$18,500
BELMONT UNIVERSITY$15,000
WALDEN'S PUDDLE$15,000
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HARPETH HALL SCHOOL$10,000
CROSSROADS CAMPUS$10,000
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION$10,000
YWCA OF MIDDLE TN$8,000
GILDA'S CLUB NASHVILLE$7,500
BEERSHEBA SPRINGS MEDICAL CLINIC$7,500
FIFTY FORWARD$5,000
NASHVILLE ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING CO$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FREEDOM REIGN RANCH: $3k → 10%FREEDOM REIGN RANCH: $3k → 10%MY BAG MY STORY: $3k → 4%MY BAG MY STORY: $3k → 4%MY BAG MY STORY: $3k → 4%PROJECT REDESIGN: $3k → 14%SENIOR RIDE NASHVILLE: $3k → 14%SENIOR RIDE NASHVILLE: $3k → 14%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $3k → 14%PROGRESS INC: $3k → 14%PROGRESS INC: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $10k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $3k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $3k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $3k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 14%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $5k → 14%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $5k → 14%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $5k → 14%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $5k → 14%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $3k → 14%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $3k → 14%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $3k → 14%ANCORA TN: $5k → 14%ANCORA TN: $5k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $10k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $10k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $10k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $10k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $6k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $5k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $5k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $5k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $5k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $5k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $5k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $3k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $3k → 14%END SLAVERY TENNESSEE: $5k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $3k → 14%END SLAVERY TENNESSEE: $3k → 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

WI
CO
VA
AR
TN
AL
GA
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 108 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

108 repeat relationships: 65 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
26

Total granted

$2.5M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+77%

Still filing today

70%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SA
    ST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $233k · revenue +72%
  • CH
    CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +62%
  • EC
    Eckerd College
    7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +178%
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LIFE CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • VI
    VANDERBILT INGRAM GREATEST NEEDS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health
3
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…

Human Services
4
Nashville Public Media Inc

Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…

Arts & Culture
5
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
6
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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7
Tennessee Justice Center Inc

The tennessee justice center (tjc) advocates on behalf of low-income tennesseans in areas of public policy having the greatest impact on their health and welfare.

Crime & Legal
8
Nashville Inner City Ministry Inc

Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.

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9
Hope House of Tennessee Inc

By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.

Housing & Shelter
10
The Village At Glencliff

The village at glencliff's mission is to provide a healing community for medically vulnerable, unhoused nashvillians to safely recover, stabilize their lives, and imagine their futures.

Housing & Shelter
11
Needlink Nashville

Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.

—
12
Michael Dunn Center

To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together Nashville Inc; the most unlike its peers is Early Literacy Ambassadors. 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

102 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. 102 of the 154 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)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/102
Grantees still filing
80/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL: $232,500 · OtherST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOLEAST HICKMAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $95,000 · OtherEAST HICKMAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATIONTHE HERMI: $72,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $62,000 · OtherDAWSON MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH: $55,000 · OtherMONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITA: $50,000 · OtherDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $55,000 · Other+83 more: $852,850 · Other+83 moreCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 · HealthCUMBERLAND HEIGHT…INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $45,000 · HealthINTERFAITH DENTAL…BEERSHEBA SPRINGS MEDICAL CLINIC: $43,500 · HealthBEERSHEBA SPRINGS…HOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN: $36,000 · HealthHOPE CLINIC FOR W…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $35,000 · HealthVanderbilt Univer…SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $31,000 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT CE…HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION: $17,500 · HealthMENDING HEARTS INC: $15,300 · Health+6 more: $30,000 · Health+6 moreEckerd College: $104,500 · EducationEckerd Co…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE UNIVE…AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationAUBURN UN…Belmont University: $15,000 · EducationBelmont U…CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY: $11,000 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationDAYBREAK ARTS: $10,000 · EducationSamford University: $10,000 · Education+8 more: $27,500 · Education+8 moreALIVE HOSPICE INC: $41,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $37,500 · Human ServicesPASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN: $27,500 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $19,500 · Human ServicesANCORATN FKA END SLAVERY TENNESSEE INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesMy Bag My Story: $7,500 · Human Services+11 more: $33,000 · Human ServicesMEN OF VALOR: $87,500 · Crime & LegalNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $25,000 · Crime & LegalTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $16,000 · Crime & LegalTENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $7,500 · Crime & LegalCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $94,000 · Arts & CultureANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $15,500 · Arts & CultureTRAVELLERS REST HISTORIC HOUSE MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $6,500 · Arts & CultureWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO: $81,000 · AnimalsSHELTER FRIENDS OF HICKMAN COUNTY: $20,000 · AnimalsNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $5,000 · AnimalsPET COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,000 · AnimalsNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 · Animals+1 more: $3,500 · Animals
Other$1,474,850Health$408,300Education$228,000Human Services$203,500Crime & Legal$136,000Arts & Culture$121,000Animals$119,000

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 budgetST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL: $232,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEckerd College: $104,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $94,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMEN OF VALOR: $87,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO: $81,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $55,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $45,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBEERSHEBA SPRINGS MEDICAL CLINIC: $43,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $37,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN: $36,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOUR KIDS INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $32,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $31,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN: $27,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC: $25,350 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER FRIENDS OF HICKMAN COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $19,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetANCORATN FKA END SLAVERY TENNESSEE INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMENDING HEARTS INC: $15,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCURREY INGRAM ACADEMY: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CENTER INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAYBREAK ARTS: $10,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSamford University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBEGIN ANEW: $8,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSMALL WORLD YOGA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% 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 ST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Eckerd College ↗
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
  • Who funds WALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO ↗
  • Who funds DOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds BEERSHEBA SPRINGS MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds NURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER FRIENDS OF HICKMAN COUNTY ↗

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.

Hca Healthcare FoundationTN109.4× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Ebs 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 Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Eckerd College: 0% of 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 154 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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