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Main Street Group Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$333k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$146kHousing & Shelter$124kArts & Culture$80kHuman Services$71kYouth Development$64kHealth$60kPhilanthropy$40kCommunity Improvement$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $133k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$50,000
NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES$20,000
MASSACHUSETTS MORTGAGE BANKERS FOUNDATION$15,000
NEWVUE COMMUNITIES$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METROWEST$10,000
NEWVUE COMMUNITIES$10,000
GROTON HILL MUSIC$10,000
RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
BETTER DAY ADULT SOCIAL DAY PROGRAM$10,000
GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES WORCESTER COUNTY$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$10,000
BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY$9,225
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 (FY21–25, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COOPERATIVE PRODUCTION (CO-OP): $10k → 11%LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 8%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE (INP): $5k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE (INP): $5k → 16%MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT: $10k → 11%CHRISTOPHER'S HAVEN: $2k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $5k → 16%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $3k → 8%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%RISE ABOVE: $5k → 11%BRIDGES HOMEWARD: $5k → 8%BETTER DAY ADULT SOCIAL DAY PROGRAM: $10k → 8%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 11%GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $10k → 11%KITS FOR KIDS: $6k → 8%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 11%KITS FOR KIDS: $5k → 8%GINNY'S HELPING HAND: $4k → 11%KITS FOR KIDS: $5k → 8%BETTER DAY ADULT SOCIAL DAY PROGRAM: $3k → 8%METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND: $5k → 8%METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND: $5k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $3k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $2k → 8%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Main Street Group Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 96%.

Main Street Group Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$574k · 25 repeat orgs$386k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
36

Total granted

$574k
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+28%

Still filing today

80%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NS
    NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +131%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +94%
  • BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • MP
    MARLBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $27k
  • 4C
    495METROWEST CORRIDOR PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • CP
    COOPERATIVE PRODUCTION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +18%
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
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
2
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
4
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
5
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
6
Tenants Development Corporation

The promotion, maintenance and management of housing in the south end of boston, massachusetts, to low and moderate-income families of every race, religion, and nationality.

Housing & Shelter
7
Medway Village Food Pantry Inc

The medway village food pantry is a 100% choice pantry serving over 2,500 children, adults, and seniors in metrowest ma. each week clients may choose from a wide variety of items including fresh produce, eggs, cheese, shelf-stable foods,…

Food & Nutrition
8
Neighborhood Housing Services of the South Shore Inc

Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts

Housing & Shelter
9
New Bedford Women's Center Inc

To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.

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10
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
11
Main South Community Development Corp

To participate in the promotion and development of affordable housing and economic development in the main south area of worcester, massachusetts.

Community Improvement
12
Newvue Affordable Housing Corporation

Newvue affordable housing corporation is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides affordable housing to low and moderate income households in north central massachusetts.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hudson Cultural Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 88 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
31/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $51,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $41,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETT…MARLBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $27,000 · OtherMARLBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARYMETROWEST BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $20,000 · Other495METROWEST CORRIDOR PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST: $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $14,225 · OtherAddiction Referral Center Inc: $20,750 · OtherTHE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC: $15,000 · OtherMETROWEST NONPROFIT NETWORK INC: $17,500 · Other+39 more: $196,789 · Other+39 moreNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVIC…RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION IN…KITS FOR KIDS INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesKITS FOR KIDS INCGINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesGINNY'S HELPING HAND INCBETTER DAY ADULT SOCIAL DAY PROGRAM INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesBETTER DAY ADULT SOCIAL …COOPERATIVE PRODUCTION INC: $10,293 · Human ServicesMETROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $10,000 · Human Services+6 more: $23,500 · Human Services+6 moreGROTON HILL MUSIC INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureGROTON HILL …BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS …LEADERSHIP METROWEST INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMETRO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMARLBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $81,220 · EducationMARLBOROU…Ayer Shirley Education Foundation Inc: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $1,610 · EducationCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMASSACHUSETTS MORTGAGE BANKERS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE REUBEN HOAR LIBRARY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPROVISION MINISTRY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $18,140 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FITCHBURG AND LEOMINSTER - A NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN WORCESTER COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUR BRIGHT FUTURE INC: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CLUB LUNENBURG TEEN CENTER INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterWORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC: $4,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$418,264Human Services$216,793Arts & Culture$106,000Education$85,830Philanthropy$70,000Youth Development$53,640Housing & Shelter$49,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $85,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetMARLBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $81,220 over 2y, 28% of budgetGROTON HILL MUSIC INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $41,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAddiction Referral Center Inc: $20,750 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $18,140 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMETROWEST NONPROFIT NETWORK INC: $17,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetKITS FOR KIDS INC: $16,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MORTGAGE BANKERS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FITCHBURG AND LEOMINSTER - A NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $14,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBETTER DAY ADULT SOCIAL DAY PROGRAM INC: $13,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCOOPERATIVE PRODUCTION INC: $10,293 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE REUBEN HOAR LIBRARY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMETROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN WORCESTER COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVISION MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,114 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SECOND STEP INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR BRIGHT FUTURE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBERNARDIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHudson Cultural Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBRIDGES HOMEWARD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSMILE MASS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIPER OUTREACH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CLUB LUNENBURG TEEN CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSPRINGWELL INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FITZPATRICK COLLABORATIVE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUp With Books Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

Avidia Charitable Foundation IncMA51.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · George R Wallace Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Madigan Family Foundation Inc

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 Main Street Group Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Main Street Group Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Cooperative Production Inc: 93% of income from government
  • Springwell Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc: 62% of income from government
  • Newvue Communities Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Making Opportunity Count Inc: 28% of income from government
  • The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
  • South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
  • North Star Family Services Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Metro Community Development Corporation: 5% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Worcester Common Ground Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Better Day Adult Social Day Program Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Groton Hill Music Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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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How do I get to Main Street Group Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Main Street Group 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 88 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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