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Oristaglio Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$390k
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$75k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MPhilanthropy$441kRecreation & Sports$422kHealth$276kEducation$193kInternational$165kEnvironment$92kYouth Development$69kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $194k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALT LICK INCUBATOR$75,000
ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION$50,000
BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$29,300
ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION$29,000
ETRUSCAN PRESS$20,000
MEDIA MATTERS$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
VIA ART FUND INC$15,000
MASS MUSEUM OF CONTEMORARY ART$10,500
COMMUNITY SERVINGS$10,465
CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION$10,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$10,000
BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL - STEPPING STRONG$10,000
NASHOBA LEARNING CENTER$10,000
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$8,575
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 (FY17–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPRING LAKE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 6%ROOM TO GROW: $1k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $8k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $6k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $4k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $4k → 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

NH
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 69 repeat orgs$294k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
69

Total granted

$2.6M
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+11%

Still filing today

68%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $421k · revenue +582%
  • ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +56%
  • EP
    ETRUSCAN PRESS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +441% · 67% of their budget

Funded once

  • MF
    MUSICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +210%
  • IN
    INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -7%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
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
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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2
Boston Public Library Fund Inc

The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…

Education
3
Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston

The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…

Education
4
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
5
Boston Society of Architects

The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…

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6
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
7
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
8
Boston Ballet Inc

The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…

Arts & Culture
9
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
10
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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11
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
12
The Theatre At Boston Court

Boston court creates and nurtures innovative, boundary-pushing art that invokes the power of collective imagination to illuminate our common humanity.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is Historic Boston 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

93 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. 93 of the 160 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/93
Grantees still filing
59/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $420,895 · Arts & CultureESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INCASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $173,000 · Arts & CultureASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INCETRUSCAN PRESS INC: $172,500 · Arts & CultureETRUSCAN PRESS INCSALT LICK INCUBATOR INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSALT LICK INCUBATOR INCVIA ART FUND INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureVIA ART FUND INCMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDATION INCTHE BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA INC: $60,200 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $61,812 · Arts & CultureBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $159,250 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MU…BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $138,994 · EducationBOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL …Bucknell University: $115,000 · EducationBucknell UniversityBERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP: $93,750 · EducationBERKSHIRE INTERNATION…YEAR UP INC: $20,000 · Education+7 more: $43,632 · Education+7 moreIndividual grant recipient: $74,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…NASHOBA LEARNING CENTER: $60,000 · OtherNASHOBA LEARNING CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $43,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…YOUTH VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherTHE FRIENDS OF MOP FOUNDATION: $30,123 · OtherBRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL - STEPPING STRONG: $26,500 · OtherMEDIA MATTERS: $25,000 · OtherGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC: $50,000 · OtherGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT IN…COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $42,534 · OtherCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INCINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 · Other+87 more: $288,128 · Other+87 moreBoston Foundation Inc: $200,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: $7,800 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $7,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $6,845 · PhilanthropyCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $39,900 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,500 · HealthSIGHTSAVERS INC: $10,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $13,124 · HealthUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $85,400 · InternationalNEW INCENTIVES: $10,000 · International+2 more: $5,556 · InternationalTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $45,425 · EnvironmentCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $26,900 · EnvironmentNational Network of Abortion Funds: $5,000 · EnvironmentACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $5,000 · Environment+6 more: $4,818 · Environment
Arts & Culture$1,203,407Education$570,626Other$700,085Philanthropy$222,145Health$188,524International$100,956Environment$87,143

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 budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $420,895 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $173,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetETRUSCAN PRESS INC: $172,500 over 7y, 67% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $159,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSALT LICK INCUBATOR INC: $150,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetBOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $138,994 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetBucknell University: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetBERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP: $93,750 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetVIA ART FUND INC: $90,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $85,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA INC: $60,200 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $45,425 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $42,534 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $39,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF MOP FOUNDATION: $30,123 over 3y, 22% of budgetCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $26,900 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $17,724 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $17,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC: $17,100 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $13,665 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $13,490 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW INCENTIVES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGHTSAVERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: $7,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOCKBRIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $7,250 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $6,157 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $5,225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc: $5,104 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSylvia Rivera Law Project Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRIPLEX CINEMA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORY PROGRAMS INC: $4,124 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $3,800 over 3y, 0.0% 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 ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ETRUSCAN PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds SALT LICK INCUBATOR INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP ↗
  • Who funds VIA ART FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF MOP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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.

Boston Foundation IncMA35.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Malcolm Gibbs Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Barr Foundation · Shoval Foundation · Alchemy Foundation · Paul & Edith Babson Foundation 106846-000

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 Oristaglio Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oristaglio Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Victory Programs Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Railroad Street Youth Project Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Asbury Park Music Foundation Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Silk Road Project Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Family Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Berkshire Childrens Chorus Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Boston Book Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
10report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Oristaglio Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 160 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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