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Nimick Forbesway Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.4MEducation$1.9MEnvironment$1.4MHealth$670kAnimals$618kReligion$600kPhilanthropy$460kScience & Tech$332kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $311k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $957k
$35,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$200,000
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$116,667
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
MADISON CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC$75,000
ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC$65,000
UPSTREAM POLICY INSTITUTE INC$50,000
ST PAULS SCHOOL$50,000
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH$50,000
MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
FORWARD THEATER COMPANY$50,000
LITERACY NETWORK INC$50,000
ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC$50,000
ROCK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC$50,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$35,000
GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC$31,000
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 (FY17–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DON'T STOP DREAMIN': $10k → 9%MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS: $50k → 10%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%FAMILYLINKS: $40k → 11%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $50k → 10%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

ME
NH
WI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX

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 8% of Nimick Forbesway Foundation’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, 43% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Nimick Forbesway Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.8% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.8M · 64 repeat orgs$975k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

64 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
28

Total granted

$9.8M
$740k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+8%

Still filing today

77%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +57%
  • INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $608k · revenue +2%
  • HS
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
    5× · 2019–2023 · $600k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -21%
  • CH
    CENTRO HISPANO INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%

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
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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2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
7
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
8
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
9
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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10
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
11
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aldo Leopold Nature Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Paine Historical Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsElementary Literacy TutoringIndependent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesImmigrant Worker SupportEquine Therapy ProgramsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Local Food System Organizat…Policy Research and AdvocacySchool District FoundationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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%0/77
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,488

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

73 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. 73 of the 99 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
53/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $714,647 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTEHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $600,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSY…ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC — $359,974 · Arts & CultureARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INCTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — $355,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION…FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION — $250,000 · Arts & CultureFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATIONMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $225,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCTHOMAS PAINE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $160,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $155,000 · Arts & CultureALLEGHENY CEMETERY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $150,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $125,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $410,000 · Arts & Culture+6 morePROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C — $300,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDA…SHELDON CALVARY CAMP — $300,000 · OtherSHELDON CALVARY CAMPTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE — $280,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTETRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY — $233,334 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $175,000 · Other+53 more — $2,272,100 · Other+53 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $400,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNI…ST PAUL'S SCHOOL — $250,000 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHO…THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $205,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S…MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · EducationMADISON PUBLIC…THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $110,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHO…MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 · EducationMADISON PUBLIC…LITERACY NETWORK INC — $100,000 · EducationLITERACY NETWO…+3 more — $67,500 · EducationCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATIO…GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $163,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDSWELL…Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — $150,000 · EnvironmentRock Creek …LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $145,000 · EnvironmentLOYALHANNA …PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentPENNSYLVANI…THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $95,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMON…WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY — $70,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN PEN…Upstream Policy Institute Inc — $50,000 · EnvironmentALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $608,000 · Animals+1 more — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $400,000 · PhilanthropySHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $150,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $100,000 · HealthRISE WISCONSIN INC — $50,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$3,504,621Other$3,560,434Education$1,362,500Environment$1,073,000Animals$618,000Philanthropy$400,000Health$300,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $714,647 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $608,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $600,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC — $359,974 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — $355,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL — $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION — $250,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $225,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $205,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $163,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTHOMAS PAINE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $160,000 over 4y, 58% of budgetMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $155,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetALLEGHENY CEMETERY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $150,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetLOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $145,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC — $115,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetALLEGHENY CEMETERY — $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL LINKS — $93,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPittsburgh Botanic Garden — $80,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC — $75,600 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMONROE STREET ARTS CENTER — $75,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetST EDMUND'S ACADEMY — $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC — $55,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM PITTSBURGH — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpstream Policy Institute Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMadison Area Food Pantry Gardens — $50,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetSOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetFORWARD THEATER COMPANY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRISE WISCONSIN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Madison Community Fou…The Evjue Foundation …Madison Gas and Elect…Endres Manufacturing …Hillman Family Founda…The Pittsburgh Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Richard King Mellon F…Alliant Energy Founda…Trustage Foundation I…Ascendium Education S…The Oscar Rennebohm F…
Madison Community FoundationWI52.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc

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 Nimick Forbesway Foundation 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 · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 60%
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Nimick Forbesway Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nimick Forbesway Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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