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Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2

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.

$167k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$269kEducation$165kFood & Nutrition$156kArts & Culture$149kHealth$109kHousing & Shelter$87kYouth Development$70kCrime & Legal$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $132k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHARING EXCESS$15,000
METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD$10,000
CITY YEAR INC$10,000
WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE$7,500
EASTERN UNIVERSITY$7,000
SENIORLAW CENTER$7,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE$7,000
TALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC$7,000
DOMESTIC ABUSE PROJECT OF DELAWARE COUNT$7,000
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA$7,000
GOOD KARMA GARAGE$6,000
VETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN$5,000
THE BRADLEY CENTER$5,000
JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION$5,000
MAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS INC$5,000
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, $306k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE BABY BUREAU: $5k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $6k → 10%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $5k → 11%THE BRADLEY CENTER: $5k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF MONROE COUNTY INC: $5k → 12%TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $5k → 10%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $3k → 11%THE BRADLEY CENTER: $5k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF MONROE COUNTY INC: $4k → 12%FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $5k → 6%TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $5k → 7%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 10%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHIL: $8k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 14%PALS PROGRAMS: $5k → 6%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $5k → 7%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 10%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHIL: $6k → 11%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $5k → 7%ASPIRE TO AUTONOMY INC: $5k → 11%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $5k → 7%DOMESTIC ABUSE PROJECT OF DELAWARE COUNT: $7k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC: $5k → 11%GOOD KARMA GARAGE: $6k → 12%FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $4k → 6%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $5k → 7%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHIL: $5k → 11%DRUEDING CENTER: $5k → 22%OPERATION WARM INC: $31k → 6%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $5k → 7%ASPIRE TO AUTONOMY INC: $5k → 11%OPERATION WARM INC: $3k → 6%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $3k → 7%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHIL: $4k → 11%OPERATION WARM INC: $3k → 6%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $5k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $5k → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $4k → 11%QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC: $5k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER: $7k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER: $5k → 6%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $6k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF: $5k → 22%TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $4k → 22%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 22%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 22%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$800k · 57 repeat orgs$314k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
60

Total granted

$800k
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+21%

Still filing today

98%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthFood & 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

  • OW
    Operation Warm Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $51k · revenue +216%
  • SE
    SHARING EXCESS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $37k · revenue +694%
  • MA
    METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • College Unbound
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +21%
  • TU
    THE URBAN REGENERATIVE FARM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • RH
    Rahabs Hope
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +25%
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
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
2
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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3
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Education
4
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…

Youth Development
5
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
6
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
9
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
10
Urban League of Greater Philadelphia

The mission of the urban league is to empower disadvantaged, underresourced and marginalized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

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11
Philadelphia Children's Alliance

Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…

Crime & Legal
12
Merakey Idd Philadelphia

The organization was formed to serve all functioning levels of individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities who reside primarily in the philadelphia metropolitan area. services provided include residential, outpatient and adult…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals of Southeastern Pa; the most unlike its peers is Aspire to Autonomy Inc. 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

115 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. 115 of the 128 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/115
Grantees still filing
80/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Operation Warm Inc: $51,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm IncTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $22,500 · Human ServicesTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN…Gemma Services: $20,000 · Human ServicesGemma ServicesPROJECT HOME: $18,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOMEVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesYWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $13,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesVisionLink: $12,500 · Human ServicesMOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $12,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $12,000 · Human Services+21 more: $116,500 · Human Services+21 morePHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $22,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRAJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $21,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE I…CITY YEAR INC: $20,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $16,500 · OtherMAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $15,000 · OtherCollege Unbound: $15,000 · OtherAdoption Center: $15,000 · OtherENCORE SERIES INC: $12,500 · OtherTHE CAREER WARDROBE: $20,000 · OtherTHE CAREER WARDROBESERVANTS INC: $14,000 · Other+35 more: $186,750 · Other+35 moreSHARING EXCESS: $37,000 · Food & NutritionSHARING EXCE…METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $33,000 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN…CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $24,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENN…CHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $14,475 · Food & NutritionCHESTNUT HIL…PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $8,000 · Food & NutritionPENNSYLVANIA…CARING FOR FRIENDS: $7,000 · Food & NutritionCARING FOR F…+1 more: $3,000 · Food & NutritionTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $17,000 · EducationTHE GARAGE …CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $14,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S …Teach for America Inc: $12,000 · EducationTeach for A…HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 · EducationHEIGHTS PHI…Philadelphia Robotics Coalition Inc: $8,500 · EducationPhiladelphi…EASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationEASTERN UNI…MIGHTY WRITERS: $6,500 · EducationMIGHTY WRIT…FIRST BOOK: $5,000 · EducationMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationVALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $5,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationANDREW L HICKS JR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $4,000 · Education+3 more: $7,000 · Education+3 moreNational Liberty Museum: $16,000 · Arts & CultureNational L…SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $13,000 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT…TALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureTALLER PUE…WHYY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INCTHE WYCK ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WYCK A…LiveConnectionsorg: $8,000 · Arts & CultureLiveConnec…ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY THEATRE LEAGUE INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureALLENS LANE ART CENTER: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $16,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreMaternity Care Coalition: $15,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEASTERN PA: $15,000 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INC: $12,500 · HealthVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC: $10,000 · HealthBARCLAY FRIENDS: $5,000 · HealthFARM OF HOPE INC: $4,000 · HealthKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND: $2,500 · HealthACHIEVEABILITY: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterBETHESDA PROJECT: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterRahabs Hope: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterYORK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterOPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterGATEWAY HOUSING GROUP: $3,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$306,000Other$357,750Food & Nutrition$126,475Education$111,000Arts & Culture$99,000Health$74,000Housing & Shelter$40,000

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 budgetOperation Warm Inc: $51,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSHARING EXCESS: $37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $22,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $22,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAREER WARDROBE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGemma Services: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $17,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $16,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Liberty Museum: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCollege Unbound: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAdoption Center: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEASTERN PA: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $14,475 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSERVANTS INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVisionLink: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENCORE SERIES INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVEABILITY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $12,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $12,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBETHESDA PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRADLEY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGLOBAL PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATON INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA VIP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWHYY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WYCK ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetASPIRE TO AUTONOMY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW INC: $9,780 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC: $9,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust UwPA94.2× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Independence Foundation · Skilling Joseph Kennard Td · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation

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 Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
30report 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 128 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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