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Norfolk & Dedham Foundation Inc

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.

$695k
Granted FY2025still arriving
134
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$304kHousing & Shelter$296kHuman Services$171kCommunity Improvement$166kHealth$102kFood & Nutrition$59kPhilanthropy$54kYouth Development$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 134 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k115 grants · $319k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $276k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON$50,000
PINE STREET INN$50,000
CRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL$38,000
DEDHAM SQUARE CIRCLE$27,500
KELLY BRUSH FOUNDATION$25,000
DEDHAM FOOD PANTRY$25,000
DEDHAM COMMUNITY HOUSE$25,000
CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NE$25,000
PINE STREET INN$10,000
CROSSROADS$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
IN CONTROL FAMILY FOUNDATION LLC$10,000
SARGENT FAMILY COMMUNITY FUND$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $277k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $50k → 16%FLEMINGTON AREA FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 4%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 16%NEWBRIDGES IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 11%WATERBURY AREA SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 16%NEWBRIDGES IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 11%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 16%NEW CREATIONS VA: $1k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 16%NEEDHAM EXCHANGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%OLD COLONY YMCA: $5k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $5k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $1k → 8%TOMMYS PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 7%TOMMYS PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 7%TOMMYS PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 7%TOMMYS PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $50k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%NEXT STEP FUND INC: $10k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%HUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $3k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%MICHAEL C MCHUGH MEMORIAL FUND INC: $4k → 7%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%JULIES FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $5k → 16%JULIES FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $5k → 16%JULIES FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $5k → 16%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

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 62 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 72 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
69

Total granted

$1.9M
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+7%

Still filing today

65%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • DS
    Dedham Square Circle
    8× · 2018–2025 · $185k · revenue +46% · 41% of their budget
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +43%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEXT STEP FUND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +24%
  • TN
    THE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • TO
    TOWN OF DEDHAM
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
4
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
5
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
6
Northeast Arc Inc

Helping adults and children with disabilities, (incl asd), become full participants in the community.

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7
Umass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent)

Umass memorial health care, inc. is committed to improving the health of the people of central new england through excellence in clinical care, services, teaching, and research.

Health
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
The Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
10
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
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
12
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is One Little World Fka Petrova's Promise Incorporated. 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

120 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. 120 of the 204 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/120
Grantees still filing
63/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $299,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDEDHAM COMMUNITY HOUSE: $263,500 · OtherDEDHAM COMMUNITY HOUSECRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $258,000 · OtherCRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INCDedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust: $75,000 · OtherCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NE: $65,000 · Other+133 more: $584,150 · Other+133 morePINE STREET INN INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHR…SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS H…Tommy's Place Foundation Inc: $15,500 · Human ServicesJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 · Human Services+16 more: $65,250 · Human Services+16 moreDedham Square Circle: $185,000 · Community ImprovementDedham Sq…CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $36,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsSCORE HOCKEY INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsRIPPLES OF HOPE INC: $26,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $21,000 · PhilanthropySARGENT FAMILY COMMUNITY FUND: $15,000 · PhilanthropyST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Philanthropy+6 more: $7,750 · PhilanthropyPIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $26,250 · EducationLEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC: $14,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $7,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,500 · EducationNAMIC MUTUAL INSURANCE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationHusson University: $3,000 · EducationDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Education+3 more: $3,282 · EducationAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $15,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $9,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 · HealthMATT BROWN FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,500 · HealthAMEGOINC: $5,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 · Health+5 more: $5,500 · Health
Other$1,545,050Human Services$309,250Community Improvement$185,000Recreation & Sports$78,500Philanthropy$77,250Education$67,532Health$62,000

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDedham Square Circle: $185,000 over 8y, 41% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust: $75,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $42,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC: $40,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $36,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $26,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRIPPLES OF HOPE INC: $26,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIn Control Family Foundation Inc: $19,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetINSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON: $17,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTommy's Place Foundation Inc: $15,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSARGENT FAMILY COMMUNITY FUND: $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER BROOK ARTS AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDedham Historical Society: $7,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMATT BROWN FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMEGOINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS INN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Homeless Interim Program Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMichael C McHugh Memorial Fund: $3,500 over 1y, 2.7% 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 Dedham Square Circle ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Dedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds RIPPLES OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
  • Who funds WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds In Control Family Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds INSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON ↗
  • Who funds Tommy's Place Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds SARGENT FAMILY COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds Julies Family Learning Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEXT STEP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NEEDHAM EXCHANGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA28.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Norfolk & Dedham Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norfolk & Dedham Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc: 62% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Jewish Healthcare Center Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Next Step Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Hudson Community Food Pantry Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The New England Center for Children Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Worcester State Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Linden Ponds Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Insurance Library Association of Boston: 0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 204 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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