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NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc

The naacp legal defense & educ.

$4.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Crime & Legal$1.0MCivil Rights$829kCommunity Improvement$575kEducation$330kPhilanthropy$310kHuman Services$300kPublic Benefit$205kReligion$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $141,850 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,782,416 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,640,566 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$434M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUSTICE UNITY & SOCIAL$55,000
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION$30,000
CHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE MINISTRIES MINISTRIES$20,000
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI$7,500
DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM$6,850
TULANE LAW SCHOOL$6,750
FAULKNER UNIVERSITY$5,750
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 (FY22–25, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%JUSTICE UNITY & SOCIAL: $60k → 14%EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $35k → 14%Baltimore Action Legal Team: $50k → 19%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $25k → 20%JUSTICE UNITY & SOCIAL: $60k → 14%JUSTICE UNITY & SOCIAL: $55k → 14%SNCC LEGACY: $40k → 14%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

ND
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 49% of NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 11 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
36

Total granted

$1.4M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther

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

  • SC
    Southern Center for Human Rights
    2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +35%
  • RH
    RED HOOK INITIATIVE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +25%
  • GE
    GEORGIA EDUCATORS FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE INCORPORATED
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +278% · 72% of their budget

Funded once

  • LO
    LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF FLORIDA EDUCAT
    one grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue -98%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +102%
  • TL
    THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -61%

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
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
2
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
3
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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4
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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5
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
6
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

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9
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
10
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
11
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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12
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pure Justice. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%9%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,506

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.

05the grantee network

54 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 59 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
24/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $265,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INCCHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE MINISTRY — $185,000 · Community ImprovementCHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE M…KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC — $135,000 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT…Texas Appleseed — $90,000 · Community ImprovementTexas AppleseedTOGETHER SC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementTOGETHER SCCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION+3 more — $75,000 · Community Improvement+3 moreLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF FLORIDA EDUCAT — $120,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTER…Southern Center for Human Rights — $120,000 · Civil RightsSouthern Center for H…FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $105,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETH…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERT…JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsJUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD…NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Civil RightsNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERT…KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC — $40,000 · Civil RightsKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCA…+4 more — $38,000 · Civil Rights+4 moreTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERE…NORTH STAR FUND INC — $100,000 · OtherNORTH STAR FUND INCAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $81,250 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTI…JACKSONVILLE COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC — $50,000 · OtherJACKSONVILLE COMMUNITY…NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherNEW PROSPECT BAPTIST C…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $40,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFO…National Center for Youth Law — $40,000 · OtherNational Center for Yo…ORGANIZING BLACK INC — $130,000 · OtherORGANIZING BLACK INCNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT — $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR…SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE — $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $31,692 · OtherHOUSING JUSTICE LEAGUE INC — $25,000 · Other+4 more — $26,350 · OtherLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF…LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $90,000 · Crime & LegalLOUISIANA CE…Advocates for Children of New York — $75,000 · Crime & LegalAdvocates fo…PUBLIC COUNSEL — $75,000 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC COUNS…LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER — $75,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID JU…JUSTICE UNITY & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION — $175,000 · Human ServicesJUSTICE UNI…RED HOOK INITIATIVE — $75,000 · Human ServicesRED HOOK IN…Baltimore Action Legal Team Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesBaltimore A…SNCC LEGACY PROJECT — $40,000 · Human ServicesSNCC LEGACY…EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION — $35,000 · Human ServicesEQUITY AND …TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMM…TIDES FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUN…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUN…PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PH…Education Law Center - PA — $75,000 · EducationGEORGIA EDUCATORS FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE INCORPORATED — $60,000 · EducationE3 EDUCATE EMPOWER ELEVATE — $50,000 · EducationCOALITION OF CONCERNED MOTHERS — $50,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $25,000 · EducationTHE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · Education+3 more — $20,000 · Education
Community Improvement$850,000Civil Rights$698,000Other$749,292Crime & Legal$415,000Human Services$375,000Philanthropy$360,000Education$292,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $265,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE MINISTRY — $185,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetJUSTICE UNITY & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION — $175,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC — $135,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetORGANIZING BLACK INC — $130,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF FLORIDA EDUCAT — $120,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSouthern Center for Human Rights — $120,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $90,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTexas Appleseed — $90,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $81,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAdvocates for Children of New York — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE — $75,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL — $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGEORGIA EDUCATORS FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE INCORPORATED — $60,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetTOGETHER SC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBaltimore Action Legal Team Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT — $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetE3 EDUCATE EMPOWER ELEVATE — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOALITION OF CONCERNED MOTHERS — $50,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law — $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSNCC LEGACY PROJECT — $40,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetEQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION — $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $31,692 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO FAMILIES UNITE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY — $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING JUSTICE LEAGUE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetPure Justice — $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOVE NOT BLOOD CAMPAIGN — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VOTES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOLD TRAINING INSTITUTE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC — $6,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $6,750 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Common Counsel Founda…The Ford FoundationNew Venture FundBorealis PhilanthropyNEO Philanthropy IncSolidaire Network IncAnnie E Casey Foundat…Equal Justice WorksProteus Fund IncTides FoundationThe Skadden Foundation
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC33.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · The Ford Foundation · New Venture Fund · Borealis Philanthropy · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Equal Justice Works · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · The Skadden 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 NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 59 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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