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$5.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$563k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$6.7MScience & Tech$6.7MHealth$2.0MCommunity Improvement$370kEnvironment$362kRecreation & Sports$80kYouth Development$54kPhilanthropy$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 50 grants below total $1,872,748, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,691,603 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,818,855 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $280k
  • $250k+1 grant · $563k
$29,600
Median grant
25
States reached
$89M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
2TWELVE90 LLC$562,500
Washington - Seattle Campus University of$65,000
Johns Hopkins University$65,000
Arizona State University$50,000
Agpreneur Inc$50,000
Pennsylvania State University$50,000
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$48,000
Yale University$42,500
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey$40,000
Elizabeth City State University$35,000
California San Diego University of$35,000
North Carolina A&T State University$33,510
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University$30,000
Lorain County Community College$30,000
HBCU Founders Initiative$30,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DELAWARE UNIVERSITY OF: $95k → 10%INFINITE COOLING INC: $50k → 16%Pennsylvania State University: $50k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $58k → 22%CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO: $90k → 12%University of California Davis: $57k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NY: $52k → 17%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY OSU GRANTS: $52k → 19%2TWELVE90 LLC: $563k → 12%MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR UNIVERSITY OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $50k → 14%BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM UNIVERSITY OF WISCO: $44k → 10%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $44k → 13%Northwestern University: $82k → 14%VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY OF: $60k → 8%Tulane University Administrators of The Tulane Educational Fund: $45k → 23%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $50k → 10%Massachusetts Amherst University of: $55k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY BERKS: $44k → 16%CALIFORNIA DAVIS UNIVERSITY OF: $43k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $44k → 14%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 18%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $44k → 16%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $63k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $65k → 14%MINNESOTA UNIVERSITY OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $42k → 11%CALIFORNIA BERKELEY UNIVERSITY OF: $62k → 10%Northwestern University: $65k → 14%Pennsylvania University of The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania: $60k → 22%North Carolina State University at Raleigh: $77k → 8%Georgia Tech Research Corporation: $48k → 13%Washington - Seattle Campus University of: $65k → 9%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $160k → 19%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $67k → 8%Agpreneur Inc: $50k → 10%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $118k → 19%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $45k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $55k → 8%HOUSTON UNIVERSITY OF: $46k → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $88k → 19%Johns Hopkins University: $85k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $84k → 19%Johns Hopkins University: $70k → 19%ETC SOLAR: $50k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $48k → 17%Johns Hopkins University: $65k → 19%CAIFORNIA SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY OF: $61k → 11%University of California San Diego: $50k → 11%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

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NH
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MN
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MI
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MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
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RI
CA
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KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
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TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.7M · 125 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

125 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 96 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

125
231

Total granted

$9.7M
$4.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+27%

Still filing today

40%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $972k 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
EducationScience & TechHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $705k · revenue +64%
  • Northwestern University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $334k · revenue +41%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $224k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • SO
    STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2020 · $54k
  • ES
    ETC SOLAR
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • IC
    INFINITE COOLING INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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8
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
9
University of Denver

The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…

Education
10
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Salle University; the most unlike its peers is A Global Voice for Autism Inc. 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

138 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. 138 of the 384 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/138
Grantees still filing
108/138
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

2TWELVE90 LLC: $562,500 · Other2TWELVE90 LLCUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $268,500 · Other+136 more: $7,206,204 · Other+136 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $705,150 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $248,950 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVA…ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $214,125 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $211,750 · EducationCAL POLY CORPORATION: $175,000 · EducationVanderbilt University: $164,073 · Education+48 more: $2,890,827 · Education+48 moreNorthwestern University: $334,113 · Recreation & SportsUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $54,358 · PhilanthropyCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $29,600 · PhilanthropyGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $73,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc: $25,000 · HealthANGEL CAPITAL ASSOCIATION: $66,000 · Community ImprovementHBCU FOUNDERS INITIATIVE: $30,000 · Community Improvement
Other$8,037,204Education$4,609,875Recreation & Sports$334,113Philanthropy$113,958Health$98,000Community Improvement$96,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $705,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $334,113 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $248,950 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $223,995 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $214,125 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $211,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION: $175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $164,073 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $148,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $141,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $128,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $124,999 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $121,031 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $119,574 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $111,669 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $106,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $91,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $81,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $80,000 over 6y, 50% of budgetYale University: $77,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $73,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $69,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $68,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL CAPITAL ASSOCIATION: $66,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $62,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING INC: $59,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $58,740 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $58,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $55,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $54,358 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY: $53,711 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $49,999 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarding University Inc: $49,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $43,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC AND LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $39,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY MANAGERS INC: $36,350 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $33,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHBCU FOUNDERS INITIATIVE: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CAL POLY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗

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.

American Chemical Soc…National Collegiate A…Emory UniversityFolds of Honor Founda…World Learning IncTrustees of Boston Un…American Council of L…Howard Hughes Medical…Northeastern Universi…Johns Hopkins Univers…Strada Education Foun…Yale University
American Chemical SocietyDC66.8× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Emory University · Folds of Honor Foundation · World Learning Inc · Trustees of Boston University · American Council of Learned Societies · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Northeastern University · Johns Hopkins University · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Yale University

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 National Collegiate Investors & Innovators Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Collegiate Investors & Innovators Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Jacksonville University: 3% of income from government
  • Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 384 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $42M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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