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Orange County's United Way

To improve lives in orange county by delivering measurable long-term solutions to complex issues in education, financial stability, and housing.

$20M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$712k
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$10MHealth$8.1MEducation$6.4MHousing & Shelter$4.6MYouth Development$1.2MFood & Nutrition$932kEmployment$719kReligion$621kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 35 grants below total $1,656,812, the rows itemized in this filing. The $20,234,972 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,578,160 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $493k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $414k
  • $250k+1 grant · $712k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ABRAZAR INC$711,500
WORKING WARDROBES FOR A NEW START$165,000
THE CHRYSALIS CENTER$106,000
GOOD HANDS FOUNDATION$88,000
ANAHEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT$55,450
SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS$34,065
ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES$34,000
ANAHEIM UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT$30,000
ONEOC$26,800
RADIANT FUTURES$25,000
ASIAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE$24,500
LAGUNA WOODS VILLAGE PC CLUB$24,000
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP$22,000
EVERFREE$20,000
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN CANCER FOUNDATION$20,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $8.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER: $200k → 10%Hope Through Housing Foundation: $362k → 14%THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $188k → 10%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $158k → 14%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $45k → 11%Haitian Bridge Alliance: $20k → 11%The Cambodian Family: $105k → 10%The Cambodian Family: $105k → 10%CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER: $75k → 10%United American Indian Involvement: $90k → 14%United American Indian Involvement: $90k → 14%Special Service for Groups Inc: $48k → 14%LATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $56k → 10%CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER: $50k → 10%SERVE THE PEOPLE INC: $25k → 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED (SPIN): $100k → 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED (SPIN): $75k → 10%SAAHAS FOR CAUSE: $37k → 14%Saahas for Cause: $25k → 14%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED (SPIN): $50k → 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED (SPIN): $50k → 10%SHARE OUR SELVES: $25k → 10%ILLUMINATION INSTITUTE: $180k → 10%Illumination Institute: $105k → 10%Illumination Institute: $105k → 10%GRACE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL SERVICES: $45k → 10%WISEPLACE: $30k → 10%ARAB AMERICAN CIVIC COUNCIL: $45k → 10%Arab American Civic Council: $25k → 10%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $55k → 10%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $55k → 10%MULTI-ETHNIC COLLABORATIVE OF COMMUNITY AGENCIES: $25k → 10%YMCA of Orange County: $362k → 10%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $150k → 10%SOULRAPHA: $45k → 10%SoulRapha aka Orange County Amazing Grace Minis: $25k → 10%ABRAZAR INC: $713k → 10%ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $194k → 10%ABRAZAR INC: $712k → 10%ABRAZAR INC: $703k → 10%ABRAZAR INC: $673k → 10%ABRAZAR INC: $514k → 10%ABRAZAR INC: $444k → 10%ABRAZAR INC: $429k → 10%ABRAZAR INC: $429k → 10%ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $34k → 10%ABRAZAR INC: $329k → 10%RADIANT FUTURES: $25k → 10%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 119 repeat orgs$41M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

119 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 93 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

119
72

Total granted

$32M
$41M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

81%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k 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 ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AI
    Abrazar Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +54%
  • MH
    MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +631%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $970k · revenue +101%

Funded once

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    OTHERS (PASS-THRU 501C(3) & LESS THAN 5000)
    one grant, 2021 · $40M
  • SP
    SACRED PATH INDIGENOUS WELLNESS CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $428k · revenue 0%
  • SS
    Special Service for Groups Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $48k · revenue +56%
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
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture Inc

Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc. is a family of community health centers whose mission is to be the medical home for our patients by providing personalized, quality health care services in a culturally accessible manner.

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2
Community Legal Aid Socal

Community legal aid socal provides compassionate, holistic, and impactful legal services to residents of los angeles and orange counties who need help with housing, family law, healthcare access and other areas of law.

Crime & Legal
3
Human Services Association

The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.

Human Services
4
Orange County Adult Achievement Center Dba My Day Counts

Our mission is to train people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities for success in life and work. We provide life empowering services to more than 450 adults with disabilities including employment, education, housing,…

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5
African Com Public Health Coalition

To improve personal and community health and wellness within the african community by increasing the availability of culturally relevant physical and mental health services.

Health
6
Open Paths Counseling Center

Open paths counseling center's mission is to meet the evolving mental health needs of the community through quality counseling for individuals and families at affordable fees; free therapy programs for at-risk children and youth in local…

Health
7
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.

Health
8
All Inclusive Community Health Cent

The organization provides health care and other related services to medically underserved populations in Los Angeles County.

Health
9
The Alliance for Community Wellness Dba La Familia Counseling Services

La Familia Counseling Service is an inclusive Latino community-based, multi-cultural organization committed to strengthening the emotional wellness of individuals and the preservation of families.

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10
Catholic Charities of Orange County Inc

The mission of catholic charities of orange county is to provide service to people in need, promote their voice in society, and to call the church and all people to do the same."

Human Services
11
Western Youth Services

Western Youth Services (WYS) is a community-based nonprofit organization providing prevention and mental health treatment services for youth experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges, as well as their families. Services are…

Human Services
12
Grandma's House of Hope

Grandma's house of hope empowers the invisible populations of orange county by providing emergency, bridge and transitional housing with trauma-informed supportive services to single individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Sonrise Community Christian Ch. 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

170 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. 170 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/170
Grantees still filing
101/170
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTHERS (PASS-THRU 501C(3) & LESS THAN 5000): $39,564,023 · OtherOTHERS (PASS-THRU 501C(3) & LESS THAN 5000)+91 more: $14,736,521 · Other+91 moreAbrazar Inc: $4,944,412 · Human ServicesAbrazar IncHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $519,500 · Human ServicesHOPE THROUGH …YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $512,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S C…THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $397,500 · Human ServicesIllumination Institute: $390,000 · Human ServicesCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $325,000 · Human Services+43 more: $1,942,081 · Human Services+43 moreVITAL ACCESS CARE FOUNDATION: $539,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $539,143 · HealthMOMS ORANGE COUNTY: $519,500 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT: $507,000 · HealthMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $465,250 · HealthSACRED PATH INDIGENOUS WELLNESS CENTER: $427,637 · HealthSHANTI ORANGE COUNTY: $397,500 · HealthCOALITION OF OC COMMUNITY CLINICS: $390,000 · HealthPACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $377,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY: $320,550 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH INITIATIVE OF OC: $173,677 · Health+13 more: $520,166 · HealthMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $1,112,690 · Housing & ShelterTHE KENNEDY COMMISSION: $507,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $122,151 · Housing & Shelter+4 more: $81,630 · Housing & ShelterONEOC: $918,223 · PhilanthropyCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $569,500 · PhilanthropyFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $152,618 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $69,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $33,500 · PhilanthropyProject Hope Alliance: $390,000 · EducationSANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT PUBLIC FACILITIES CORPORATION: $380,050 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $144,750 · EducationMARSHALLESE YOUTH OF ORANGE COUNTY: $62,000 · EducationCoastline Community College Foundation: $58,189 · EducationLAGUNA WOODS VILLAGE PC CLUB: $46,000 · EducationCSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION: $40,000 · Education+7 more: $72,500 · EducationORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $527,000 · Community ImprovementCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $289,500 · Community ImprovementVITAL LINK EDUCATION- BUSINESS CONSORTIUM: $121,457 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $40,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $22,500 · Community Improvement
Other$54,300,544Human Services$9,030,493Health$5,177,423Housing & Shelter$1,823,471Philanthropy$1,743,341Education$1,193,489Community Improvement$1,000,457

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 budgetAbrazar Inc: $4,944,412 over 9y, 8.0% of budgetPeople For Irvine Community Health: $1,511,754 over 7y, 26% of budgetMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $1,112,690 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY: $970,101 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetONEOC: $918,223 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST: $688,750 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $647,247 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $569,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetVITAL ACCESS CARE FOUNDATION: $539,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $539,143 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $527,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $519,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMOMS ORANGE COUNTY: $519,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $512,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE KENNEDY COMMISSION: $507,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT: $507,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $465,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED PATH INDIGENOUS WELLNESS CENTER: $427,637 over 1y, 21% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $406,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $397,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetSHANTI ORANGE COUNTY: $397,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCOALITION OF OC COMMUNITY CLINICS: $390,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetProject Hope Alliance: $390,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetIllumination Institute: $390,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetSANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT PUBLIC FACILITIES CORPORATION: $380,050 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $377,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetGOOD HANDS FOUNDATION: $361,000 over 9y, 86% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $325,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY: $320,550 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER: $306,516 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $289,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetALIANZA TRANSLATINX: $282,500 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetServing People In Need Inc: $275,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetABOUND FOOD CARE: $250,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $245,166 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY: $238,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetSERVING KIDS HOPE: $236,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $188,344 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetUNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT INC: $187,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH INITIATIVE OF OC: $173,677 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $152,618 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetROADTRIP NATION LTD: $146,715 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $144,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $143,268 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $140,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $134,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPure Game: $123,400 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $122,151 over 6y, 0.6% 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 Abrazar Inc ↗
  • Who funds People For Irvine Community Health ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ONEOC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VITAL ACCESS CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOMS ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE KENNEDY COMMISSION ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SACRED PATH INDIGENOUS WELLNESS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY ↗
  • Who funds SHANTI ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COALITION OF OC COMMUNITY CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Illumination Institute ↗
  • Who funds SANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT PUBLIC FACILITIES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds GOOD HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ALIANZA TRANSLATINX ↗

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA115.7× affinity88 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · O L Halsell Foundation · Charitable Ventures of Orange County · Oneoc · St Joseph Health System Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

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 Orange County's United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orange County's United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    64report 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 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 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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