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Maryland Family Network Inc

Maryland family network (mfn) ensures that young child have strong families, quality learning environments, and a champion for their interests.

$26M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2.2M
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 2025.

Human Services$80MEducation$73MEmployment$9.6MCommunity Improvement$3.2MHealth$1.0MPhilanthropy$511kCrime & Legal$3k
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $875k
  • $250k+32 grants · $26M
$545,147
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC$2,247,222
MARYLAND RURAL DEVELOPMENT CORP$1,980,446
PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER INC$1,515,623
BON SECOURS OF MD FNDN$1,513,783
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE$1,329,316
KENNEDY KRIEGER$1,328,091
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY$1,041,736
SHORE UP INC$1,002,008
TALBOT COUNTY HEALTH DEPT$990,655
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COMM ACTION AGENCY$893,519
THE FAMILY TREE$879,615
ABILITIES NETWORK$851,698
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE HOWARD COUNTY$804,620
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC OF FREDERICK COUNTY$739,587
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE - CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE CHANGE$720,523
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 (FY17–25, $37.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $438k → 8%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1.5M → 11%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $400k → 8%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1.4M → 11%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1.2M → 11%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER INC: $638k → 11%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $332k → 8%Prince George's Child Resource Center Inc: $625k → 11%Prince George's Child Resource Center Inc: $614k → 11%CUMBERLAND YMCA: $462k → 18%Prince George's Child Resource Center Inc: $565k → 11%CUMBERLAND YMCA: $372k → 18%Prince George's Child Resource Center Inc: $555k → 11%Cumberland YMCA Family Support center: $359k → 18%Prince George's Child Resource Center Inc: $527k → 11%Cumberland YMCA Family Support center: $344k → 18%Family and Children's Services: $655k → 11%Cumberland YMCA Family Support center: $315k → 18%Cumberland YMCA: $305k → 18%BON SECOURS OF MD FNDN: $1.5M → 19%CUMBERLAND YMCA: $298k → 18%MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEPT OF FINANCE (FAMILY DISCOVERY CENTER): $542k → 8%CUMBERLAND YMCA: $288k → 18%MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEPT OF FINANCE (FAMILY DISCOVERY CENTER): $401k → 8%Cumberland YMCA: $277k → 18%MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEPT OF FINANCE (FAMILY DISCOVERY CENTER): $349k → 8%BON SECOURS OF MD FNDN: $1.1M → 19%BON SECOURS OF MD FNDN: $1.1M → 19%BON SECOURS OF MD FNDN: $1.0M → 19%KINGDOM KARE: $545k → 6%Dayspring Programs: $421k → 19%KINGDOM KARE: $410k → 6%KINGDOM KARE: $367k → 6%Dayspring Programs: $258k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $2.2M → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $2.2M → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $2.1M → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $1.4M → 19%St Vincent de Paul: $1.2M → 19%St Vincent de Paul: $1.2M → 19%St Vincent de Paul: $674k → 19%St Vincent de Paul: $654k → 19%DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE CHILD CARE: $550k → 19%DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE CHILD CARE: $538k → 19%Downtown Baltimore Child Care Center: $500k → 19%DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE CHILD CARE: $475k → 19%DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE CHILD CARE: $474k → 19%Downtown Baltimore Child Care Center: $448k → 19%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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 15% of Maryland Family Network Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 85%.

Maryland Family Network Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.2% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$166M · 47 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
6

Total granted

$166M
$933k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+31%

Still filing today

62%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +51%
  • KK
    KENNEDY KRIEGER EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.7M · revenue +36%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.6M · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • FA
    FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $655k · revenue +31%
  • CC
    Cecil College
    one grant, 2017 · $234k
  • LF
    LUNA FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
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
Concern - Professional Services for Children Youth and Families

Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.

Human Services
2
Center for Social Change Inc

Our mission is to provide services of the highest quality for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities and related disorders including autism that optimize each individual's independence and capabilities, ensure…

International
3
Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive array of critical human services.

Human Services
4
Coordinating Center for Home and Community Care Inc

The mission of The Coordinating Center is to partner with people of all ages and abilities and those who support them in the community to achieve their aspirations for independence, health, and a meaningful community life.

Human Services
5
Family Services Inc

To strengthen the well-being and development of families and individuals through professional human services programs, including therapy, counseling, education, special assistance, and advocacy.

Human Services
6
Progress Unlimited Inc

To empower individuals to lead fulfilling and productive lives at home and in the community.

Human Services
7
Washington County Family Center

Building resourceful families and healthy children to create a strong community.

Education
8
Progressive Life Center Inc

Social services and mental health

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9
Spectrum Support Inc

To form relationships which support people to achieve their life goals in the areas of residential, employment, meaningful community engagement and personal services.

Employment
10
Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

—
11
Collaborative Solutions for Communities

To be the leading solution-focused resource in building strong, sustainable families and communities through family support services, innovative training, community capacity building, economic development and social enterprise.

Crime & Legal
12
Linwood Center Inc

Linwood creates the possibility of extraordinary lives for children and adults living with autism and related developmental disabilities by providing education, vocational training, residential support, and employment opportunities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Human Services Programs of Carroll County 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

35 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. 35 of the 54 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Caroline County Board of Education: $12,084,505 · OtherCaroline County Board of EducationGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $9,600,270 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INCHOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $9,184,918 · OtherHOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITYTALBOT COUNTY HEALTH DEPT: $6,490,090 · OtherTALBOT COUNTY HEALTH DEPTUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $5,545,434 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $3,739,182 · OtherShore Up Inc: $3,625,569 · OtherANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY DSS: $3,487,896 · OtherTREASURER OF FREDERICK COUNTY: $3,095,150 · OtherCOUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF KENT COUNTY: $3,090,709 · OtherQUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $3,083,539 · OtherPROMISE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $3,001,745 · OtherDIRECTOR OF FINANCE HOWARD COUNTY: $2,970,478 · OtherSHORE UP INC P O BOX 430: $2,903,193 · Other+14 more: $11,655,936 · Other+14 moreST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $11,625,208 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BAL…PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC: $7,667,664 · Human ServicesPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RES…Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: $4,721,250 · Human ServicesBon Secours Baltimore Com…YMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC: $3,019,916 · Human ServicesYMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLA…DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE CHILD CARE INC: $2,984,111 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN BALTIMORE CHILD …FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,737,726 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES INCKingdom Kare Inc: $1,322,358 · Human Services+6 more: $3,096,764 · Human Services+6 moreKENNEDY KRIEGER EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $9,694,059 · Community ImprovementKENNEDY KRIEGER E…MARYLAND RURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $8,288,639 · Community ImprovementMARYLAND RURAL DE…Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc: $6,731,381 · Community ImprovementAnne Arundel Coun…FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $934,204 · Community ImprovementABILITIES NETWORK INC: $5,125,601 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $3,700,995 · HealthGRACE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $3,488,722 · Health+2 more: $700,866 · HealthHUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS OF CARROLL COUNTY INC: $3,080,657 · Housing & ShelterLIFE AND DISCOVERY INC: $1,371,201 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,206,003 · EducationTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $1,687,042 · Philanthropy
Other$83,558,614Human Services$37,174,997Community Improvement$25,648,283Health$13,016,184Housing & Shelter$3,080,657Education$2,577,204Philanthropy$1,687,042

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $11,625,208 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $9,694,059 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $9,600,270 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetMARYLAND RURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $8,288,639 over 9y, 14% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC: $7,667,664 over 9y, 35% of budgetAnne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc: $6,731,381 over 9y, 21% of budgetABILITIES NETWORK INC: $5,125,601 over 9y, 11% of budgetBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: $4,721,250 over 4y, 26% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $3,739,182 over 6y, 18% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $3,700,995 over 9y, 14% of budgetGRACE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $3,488,722 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS OF CARROLL COUNTY INC: $3,080,657 over 9y, 9.8% of budgetYMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC: $3,019,916 over 9y, 14% of budgetPROMISE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $3,001,745 over 9y, 63% of budgetDOWNTOWN BALTIMORE CHILD CARE INC: $2,984,111 over 6y, 33% of budgetSHORE UP INC P O BOX 430: $2,903,193 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,737,726 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPACT HELPING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $2,001,728 over 7y, 15% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INCORPORATED: $1,701,752 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $1,687,042 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetLIFE AND DISCOVERY INC: $1,371,201 over 3y, 15% of budgetKingdom Kare Inc: $1,322,358 over 3y, 20% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,206,003 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAPPLES FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,069,682 over 6y, 48% of budgetARUNDEL CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC: $1,045,032 over 6y, 52% of budgetDAYSPRING PROGRAMS INC: $1,015,293 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $934,204 over 3y, 16% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRA: $655,180 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $376,895 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND INC: $323,971 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC: $187,205 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $139,404 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUNA FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 8.8% 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 VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND RURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC ↗
  • Who funds Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc ↗
  • Who funds ABILITIES NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS OF CARROLL COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE CHILD CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHORE UP INC P O BOX 430 ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds PACT HELPING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE AND DISCOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds Kingdom Kare Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds APPLES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds ARUNDEL CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds DAYSPRING PROGRAMS INC ↗

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.

The United Way of Central Maryland IncMD34× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Sharebaby Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Nora Roberts Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable

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 Maryland Family Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maryland Family Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Life and Discovery Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Maryland Rural Development Corporation: 62% of income from government
  • Apples for Children Inc: 57% of income from government
  • Shore Up Inc P O Box 430: 56% of income from government
  • St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc: 17% of income from government
  • Pact Helping Children With Special Needs Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Human Services Programs of Carroll County Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Family and Children's Services of Centra: 10% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Abilities Network Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Kingdom Kare Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Dayspring Programs Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Kennedy Krieger Education and Community Services Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

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 54 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 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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