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Rockwell Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$235k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$3.9MHealth$3.7MHousing & Shelter$3.5MYouth Development$2.6MHuman Services$1.9MCrime & Legal$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.0MReligion$700kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k47 grants · $4.0M
$70,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$91M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON$235,000
TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES$125,000
UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER$125,000
AGAPE DEVELOPMENT MINISTRIES$125,000
EARL CARL INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL$125,000
CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY PRIORITIES$125,000
HOUSTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC$125,000
HYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC$125,000
FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT$125,000
HOUSTON REVISION$120,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER$115,000
PAIR$115,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON FOUNDATION$100,000
HEALTHY FUTURES OF TEXAS$100,000
BREAKTHROUGH HOUSTON$100,000
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 (FY20–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHANGE HAPPENS: $25k → 16%YMCA OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $33k → 16%YMCA OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $25k → 16%YMCA OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $20k → 16%WOMEN'S HOUSE: $150k → 16%WOMEN'S HOUSE: $100k → 16%WOMEN'S HOME: $100k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $100k → 16%WOMEN'S HOME: $90k → 16%MONTROSE GRACE PLACE: $25k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $125k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $116k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 16%BOAT PEOPLE SOS HOUSTON: $60k → 16%BOAT PEOPLE SOS HOUSTON: $50k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $34k → 16%BOAT PEOPLE SOS HOUSTON: $10k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $100k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $75k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $58k → 16%HARRIS COUNTY DRUG COURT FDN: $50k → 16%THE CENTER FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION: $100k → 16%THE CENTER FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION: $75k → 16%YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACTION INC: $50k → 16%CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $150k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $50k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $25k → 16%NETWORK OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $50k → 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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 51 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

51 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
39

Total granted

$18M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+32%

Still filing today

75%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $875k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • HR
    HOUSTON REVISION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $890k · revenue +86%
  • TF
    Teen & Family Services
    5× · 2020–2024 · $625k · revenue +146%
  • HF
    HYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $575k · revenue +257% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • AO
    ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2022 · $275k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $160k
  • I
    iEDUCATE
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +18%

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
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
2
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
3
South Central Houston Action Council Inc

The organization provides medical services in the form of primary and preventive care to underserved and underinsured residents of harris county.

4
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

5
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
6
Houston in Action Network

To promote civic engagement through education, development, outreach and grant-making.

Civil Rights
7
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
8
Coalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County

The coalition for the homeless of houston/harris county acts as a catalyst, uniting partners and maximizing resources to move people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing with supportive services.

Housing & Shelter
9
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

10
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
11
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

12
Houston Hispanic Forum

Empower and inspire the success of the large and fast-growing hispanic community in the greater houston area thereby strengthening the entire community.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Avow Foundation for Abortion Access. 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 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%4%<5yr17%13%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr8%25%35–55yr8%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%2%<5yr17%9%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr8%26%35–55yr8%15%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/77
the rest of the field
19%
3,801/20,364

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

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 106 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/75
Grantees still filing
52/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER — $1,150,000 · OtherUNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERALLIANCE OF COMM ASST MINISTRIES — $800,000 · OtherALLIANCE OF COMM ASST MINISTRIESSEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES — $540,000 · OtherSEARCH HOMELESS SERVICESHARRIS COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $535,000 · OtherHARRIS COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCEHARMONY HOUSE INC — $502,415 · OtherHARMONY HOUSE INCALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES — $495,000 · OtherEARL CARL INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL & — $450,000 · OtherThe Montrose Center — $325,000 · OtherFIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $375,000 · OtherCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $475,000 · Other+47 more — $3,671,182 · Other+47 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $1,040,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF …HYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC — $575,000 · EducationHYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INCSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC — $520,000 · EducationSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW…THE URBAN ENRICHMENT INSTITUTE — $415,000 · EducationTHE URBAN ENRICHMENT INSTI…Breakthrough Houston — $400,000 · EducationBreakthrough HoustonWilliam Marsh Rice University — $389,840 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice Univers…Agape Development Ministries — $375,000 · EducationAgape Development Ministri…University of Houston Foundation — $295,000 · EducationUniversity of Houston Foun…Teach for America Inc — $250,000 · EducationCOMP-U-DOPT INC — $215,000 · Education+5 more — $382,500 · Education+5 moreTeen & Family Services — $625,000 · Human ServicesTeen & Famil…THE WOMEN'S HOME — $540,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S …PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesPRISON ENTRE…THE CENTER FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER F…HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON — $133,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHCARE F…BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC — $120,000 · Human ServicesBOAT PEOPLE …Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area — $77,500 · Human Services+8 more — $325,000 · Human Services+8 moreHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc — $525,000 · Housing & ShelterAvenue Community Development Corporation — $475,000 · Housing & ShelterNew Hope Housing Inc — $425,000 · Housing & ShelterHEALTHY FUTURES OF TEXAS — $475,000 · PhilanthropyNAMI GREATER HOUSTON — $309,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $193,933 · PhilanthropyCONNECTIVE — $75,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $28,355 · PhilanthropyHOUSTON REVISION — $890,000 · Crime & LegalChildren At Risk — $150,000 · Crime & LegalGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston — $325,500 · Youth DevelopmentPROUNITAS INC — $225,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC — $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentEIGHT MILLION STORIES INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCollective Action for Youth — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTERTWINED — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMISSION SQUASH OF HOUSTON — $45,000 · Youth Development
Other$9,318,597Education$4,857,340Human Services$2,245,500Housing & Shelter$1,425,000Philanthropy$1,081,288Crime & Legal$1,040,000Youth Development$995,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $1,040,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHOUSTON REVISION — $890,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetTeen & Family Services — $625,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetHYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC — $575,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $540,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc — $525,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC — $520,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHARMONY HOUSE INC — $502,415 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES — $495,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $475,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetAvenue Community Development Corporation — $475,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHEALTHY FUTURES OF TEXAS — $475,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc — $425,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE URBAN ENRICHMENT INSTITUTE — $415,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetBreakthrough Houston — $400,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $389,840 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAgape Development Ministries — $375,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetFIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $375,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston — $325,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetThe Montrose Center — $325,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNAMI GREATER HOUSTON — $309,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Houston Foundation — $295,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC — $250,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROUNITAS INC — $225,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetPartnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees — $215,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC — $215,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $193,933 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWest Street Recovery — $175,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION INC — $175,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetChildren At Risk — $150,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetAvow Foundation for Abortion Access — $135,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON — $133,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetiEDUCATE — $125,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOAT PEOPLE SOS INC — $120,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFit Houston Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON — $95,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHE PERINATAL UNIT FOR SYSTEMS OF HEALTH — $80,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area — $77,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIVE — $75,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetEIGHT MILLION STORIES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR — $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCollective Action for Youth — $75,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE HIGHLAND PROJECT INC — $62,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDaya Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC
  • Who funds HOUSTON REVISION
  • Who funds Teen & Family Services
  • Who funds HYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME
  • Who funds Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc
  • Who funds SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC
  • Who funds HARMONY HOUSE INC
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • Who funds Center for Public Policy Priorities
  • Who funds Avenue Community Development Corporation
  • Who funds HEALTHY FUTURES OF TEXAS
  • Who funds New Hope Housing Inc
  • Who funds THE URBAN ENRICHMENT INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Breakthrough Houston
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University
  • Who funds Agape Development Ministries
  • Who funds FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Who funds Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston
  • Who funds The Montrose Center
  • Who funds NAMI GREATER HOUSTON
  • Who funds LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC
  • Who funds University of Houston Foundation
  • Who funds PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc
  • Who funds PROUNITAS INC
  • Who funds Partnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees
  • Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds West Street Recovery
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION 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.

Houston Endowment IncTX70.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Endowment Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Episcopal Health Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Methodist Hospital · The Simmons Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Powell Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services

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 Rockwell Fund 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report 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, FY2025

    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.

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    How do I get to Rockwell Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Rockwell Fund Inc 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 106 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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