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Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
155
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$46MHealth$19MYouth Development$9.2MArts & Culture$9.0MCommunity Improvement$7.9MEnvironment$3.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.2MPhilanthropy$2.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 155 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k86 grants · $186k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $542k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+12 grants · $10M
$5,647
Median grant
16
States reached
$387M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Foundation Inc$2,000,000
The Mind Trust$1,350,000
WFYI$1,060,000
Newfields$1,000,000
Marian University$1,000,000
Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc$1,000,000
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Foundation$952,950
Aspire Indiana Health Inc$500,000
Dove Recovery House for Women Inc$500,000
Indiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation$387,000
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Foundation Inc$333,334
EdChoice$250,000
MSD of Warren Township$187,500
Victory College Prep$173,942
MSD of Wayne Township$171,566
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, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Leelanau County Cancer Foundation: $2k → 7%Damar Services Inc: $2k → 9%LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%DAMAR SERVICES INC: $1k → 9%ShareCare of Leelanau Inc: $750 → 7%ShareCare of Leelanau Inc: $750 → 7%The PourHouse Inc: $25k → 16%Damar Foundation: $1k → 16%Early Learning Indiana: $320k → 16%Early Learning Indiana: $230k → 16%Indianapolis Urban League: $100k → 16%Indianapolis Urban League: $100k → 16%Early Learning Indiana: $50k → 16%Early Learning Indiana: $19k → 16%Indianapolis Urban League: $6k → 16%Indianapolis Urban League: $5k → 16%Indianapolis Urban League: $5k → 16%Indianapolis Urban League: $5k → 16%Warm Heart Warm Home Foundation: $3k → 16%Trinity Haven: $25k → 16%Indianapolis Urban League: $600 → 16%Indiana Diaper Bank: $6k → 16%Indiana Diaper Bank: $3k → 16%Joy's House: $5k → 16%Joy's House: $3k → 16%Joy's House: $3k → 16%Joy's House: $2k → 16%Indiana Diaper Bank: $622 → 16%Domestic Violence Network: $25k → 16%The Damien Center: $250k → 16%The Damien Center: $250k → 16%Early Learning Indiana: $50k → 16%Shepherd Community: $42k → 16%Shepherd Community: $28k → 16%Outreach Inc: $25k → 16%Westminster Neighborhood Services: $25k → 16%Shepherd Community Center Inc: $5k → 16%Shepherd Community Center Inc: $5k → 16%Shepherd Community Center Inc: $5k → 16%Early Learning Indiana: $750 → 16%LYN HOUSE INC: $710 → 16%Lyn House Inc: $600 → 16%Early Learning Indiana: $20k → 16%Wheeler Mission Ministries: $635 → 16%Indiana Diaper Bank: $3k → 16%Martin Luther King Community Center: $25k → 16%Indiana Youth Group: $25k → 16%You Yes You Project: $25k → 16%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

NH
WA
IL
MI
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MA
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IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
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TX
FL

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$99M · 179 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

179 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 104 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

179
163

Total granted

$99M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+29%

Still filing today

68%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $839k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TM
    THE MIND TRUST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +853%
  • BU
    Butler University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.5M · revenue +39%
  • MU
    Marian University
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • IU
    INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2018 · $844k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $296k
  • HH
    HEALTH & HOSPITAL CORPORATION FOR MARION COUNTY
    one grant, 2018 · $285k

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
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
2
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
3
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
4
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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5
Indiana University Alumni Association Inc

The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…

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6
Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.

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7
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
8
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
9
Cicp Foundation Inc

Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…

Community Improvement
10
International School of Indiana Inc

The mission of the international school of indiana is to provide our students with a world-class education that prepares them to be responsible citizens and effective leaders in a rapidly globalizing and interdependent world.

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11
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Indiana University Health Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Primary Health Care Assoc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%8%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr14%26%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr23%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr23%43%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%4/286
the rest of the field
10%
4,321/41,709

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.

04the grantee network

248 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. 248 of the 382 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
237/248
Grantees still filing
170/248
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Foundation Inc — $17,098,265 · OtherCentral Indiana Corporate Partnership Foundati…WFYI — $3,754,660 · OtherWFYIINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $2,399,604 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLSMSD OF WAYNE TOWNSHIP — $1,694,005 · Other+111 more — $18,142,375 · Other+111 moreTHE MIND TRUST INC — $10,702,000 · EducationTHE MIND TRUST INCButler University — $9,528,275 · EducationButler UniversityMarian University — $5,427,250 · EducationMarian UniversityTeach for America Inc — $3,020,500 · EducationTeach for America IncPURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $2,750,000 · EducationPURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA…INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC — $1,660,000 · EducationEdChoice Inc — $1,500,000 · Education+31 more — $3,858,515 · Education+31 moreNewfields Inc — $7,106,500 · Arts & CultureIndiana Latino Institute Inc — $310,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $416,137 · Arts & CultureEskenazi Health Foundation Inc — $2,392,165 · HealthCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS — $1,940,000 · HealthIndiana University Health Foundation Inc — $987,635 · HealthDOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC — $800,100 · HealthAspire Indiana Health Inc — $500,000 · HealthST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · Health+5 more — $140,450 · HealthGreater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc — $2,188,000 · Community Improvement16 TECH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $2,005,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE — $541,400 · Community ImprovementTHE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 · Community ImprovementEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC — $689,293 · Human ServicesTHE DAMIEN CENTER — $500,000 · Human ServicesINDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC — $222,100 · Human ServicesShepherd Community Inc — $83,876 · Human Services+10 more — $227,131 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $1,298,754 · PhilanthropyIndiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc — $155,650 · Philanthropy+6 more — $183,480 · Philanthropy
Other$43,088,909Education$38,446,540Arts & Culture$7,832,637Health$7,010,350Community Improvement$5,234,400Human Services$1,722,400Philanthropy$1,637,884

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE MIND TRUST INC — $10,702,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetButler University — $9,528,275 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetNewfields Inc — $7,106,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetMarian University — $5,427,250 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $3,020,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $2,750,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc — $2,392,165 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetGreater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc — $2,188,000 over 5y, 31% of budget16 TECH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $2,005,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS — $1,940,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC — $1,660,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetEdChoice Inc — $1,500,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $1,298,754 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetIndiana University Health Foundation Inc — $987,635 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER — $960,870 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC — $800,100 over 4y, 16% of budgetEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC — $689,293 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE — $541,400 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetIndiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc — $520,500 over 3y, 59% of budgetTHE DAMIEN CENTER — $500,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAspire Indiana Health Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc — $404,035 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetKipp Indianapolis Inc — $374,982 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetVICTORY COLLEGE PREP INC — $373,301 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetIndiana Latino Institute Inc — $310,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetURBAN ACT ACADEMY INC — $279,715 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC — $257,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINDIANA MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $230,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetCENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC — $230,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCOLD SPRING SCHOOL INC — $228,853 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC — $222,100 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES — $210,343 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetIndiana Black Expo Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCrown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc — $200,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetETH ZURICH FOUNDATION (USA) INC — $186,959 over 1y, 12% of budgetTEACH INDY INC — $175,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetIndiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc — $155,650 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetNETWORK FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC — $154,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetHERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC — $151,039 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $150,637 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGOODWILL LEGACY GROUP FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetChristel House Academy Inc — $140,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNOBLESVILLE YOUTH BASEBALL INCORPORATED — $131,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetVolunteers of America of Indiana Inc — $130,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $129,382 over 2y, 2.4% 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.

  • Who funds THE MIND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Butler University ↗
  • Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
  • Who funds Marian University ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds PURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
  • Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds 16 TECH COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds Indiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DAMIEN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Aspire Indiana Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds Kipp Indianapolis Inc ↗

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.

The Indianapolis Foun…Lilly Endowment IncNicholas H Noyes Jr M…United Way of Central…Central Indiana Commu…Lumina Foundation for…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…The Brave Heart Found…Maurer Family Foundat…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Allen Whitehill Clowe…Christel DeHaan Famil…
The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN154.1× affinity100 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family 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 Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc 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 · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
56report 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

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.

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 382 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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