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Seiu Local 2015

SEIU LOCAL 2015 is a chartered local union of the service employees international union and is an unincorporated, tax-exempt association currently representing bargaining unit members.

$7.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4.8M
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$8.6MEmployment$5.7MPublic Benefit$2.4MCivil Rights$1.1MHousing & Shelter$405kPhilanthropy$365kHuman Services$303kArts & Culture$265kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 51 grants below total $7,179,707, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,855,012 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $675,305 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
  • $250k+3 grants · $5.8M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$166M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEIU$4,803,207
CENTER FOR CAREGIVER ADVANCEMENT$678,000
EXPERTS UNITED FOR HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING SOLUTIONS A COALITION OF NONPR$350,000
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT PUBLIC SAFETY SPONSORED BY ACTION FOR SAFETY AND JUST$100,000
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL INC$75,000
LINDSEY HORVATH BALLOT MEASURE COMMITTEE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND PROGRESS$50,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION$50,000
ORANGE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE$45,500
NAPA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE$45,500
FRESNO COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE$45,000
SEIU INTERNATIONAL LATINO CAUCUS$40,000
NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN CAUCUS$40,000
DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF MARIN$35,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY$35,000
SANTA CLARA COUNTY UNITED DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN$35,000
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 (FY17–24, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $5k → 10%FIESTA EDUCATIVA OF SAN BERNAR: $5k → 14%BLACK GIRLS ROCK INC: $20k → 20%CAL ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMER: $5k → 10%CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFETY & JUST: $5k → 10%CA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERI: $5k → 10%IMAGINE LOS ANGELES INC: $10k → 14%JENESSE CENTER: $100k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $8k → 14%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $10k → 14%CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 12%LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $12k → 14%LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $12k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE CONTRIBUTION FOR 2024 ADELANTE AWARDS: $30k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $25k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $25k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $25k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $5k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE IN 102020: $25k → 14%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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 35 repeat orgs$7.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
80

Total granted

$13M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+33%

Still filing today

71%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
Civil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR CAREGIVER ADVANCEMENT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +647% · 25% of their budget
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +45%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $183k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • YO
    YES ON 15 - SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M
  • SP
    STATE PAC
    one grant, 2017 · $761k
  • YO
    YES ON PROP 25
    one grant, 2020 · $400k
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
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition

to organize workers in the laborers international union of north America, afl-cio pacific southwest region through a coordinated program to maintain and improve employment opportunities for affiliated local union members and to recruit new…

Employment
4
California Labor Federation Afl-Cio

The primary purposes of the organization are the study of economic and social conditions; the pursuit of policies aimed at effecting a more equal distribution of wealth; and the promotion of full employment.

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5
Coalition for Responsible and Equitable Economic Development Los Angeles

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement
6
California Employers Association

Provide all member employers with current human resource and California labor law information.

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7
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
8
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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9
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
10
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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11
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
12
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Black Girls Rock 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

85 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. 85 of the 146 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/85
Grantees still filing
58/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION: $4,943,207 · OtherSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNIONYES ON 15 - SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $3,050,000 · OtherYES ON 15 - SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRSTSTATE PAC: $761,068 · OtherSTATE PAC+97 more: $4,213,950 · Other+97 moreCENTER FOR CAREGIVER ADVANCEMENT: $5,434,417 · EducationCENTER FOR CAREGIVER ADVANCEMEN…+4 more: $65,000 · EducationCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · Civil RightsSCLC OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $57,500 · Civil RightsCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $50,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY CALIFORNIA: $45,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $35,000 · Civil RightsNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $30,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $25,000 · Civil RightsTHE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS POLICY INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Civil Rights+7 more: $55,000 · Civil RightsLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $241,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $50,000 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $20,000 · PhilanthropyBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $15,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $19,000 · PhilanthropyINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $135,000 · Human ServicesJenesse Center Inc: $107,500 · Human ServicesLABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM OF LOS ANGELES: $24,000 · Human ServicesBLACK GIRLS ROCK INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $15,000 · Human Services+5 more: $35,250 · Human ServicesCAPITAL & MAIN: $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLATINO LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureDESTINATION CRENSHAW: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMIKESPLAYGROUND CORP: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $182,500 · HealthSEIU HEALTHCARE 1199NW MULTI-EMPLOYER TRAINING & EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · Health
Other$12,968,225Education$5,499,417Civil Rights$412,500Philanthropy$370,000Human Services$336,750Arts & Culture$230,000Health$207,500

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 budgetCENTER FOR CAREGIVER ADVANCEMENT: $5,434,417 over 8y, 25% of budgetSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION: $4,943,207 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $241,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetRe Imagine LA A Coalition of Nonprofit Orgs and Justice Advocates: $200,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $182,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO: $135,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $135,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $125,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $107,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAPITAL & MAIN: $80,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL NO 73: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLATINO LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA: $45,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & ALAMEDA LABOR COUNCIL: $43,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSan Francisco Labor Council: $39,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJUSTICE IN AGING: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSACRAMENTO CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL: $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY OF CALIFORNIA CORE-CA: $30,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCONTRA COSTA LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO: $30,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL NO 99: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEIU HEALTHCARE PA HEALTH AND WELFARE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDESTINATION CRENSHAW: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER TOWER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMIKESPLAYGROUND CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetLABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM OF LOS ANGELES: $24,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBLACK GIRLS ROCK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget1199 SEIU UNITED HEALTHCARE WORKERS EAST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEIU HEALTHCARE 1199NW MULTI-EMPLOYER TRAINING & EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS POLICY INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONGRESS OF CALIFORNIA SENIORS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 CENTER FOR CAREGIVER ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Re Imagine LA A Coalition of Nonprofit Orgs and Justice Advocates ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO ↗
  • Who funds INNERCITY STRUGGLE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
  • Who funds Jenesse Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL & MAIN ↗
  • Who funds CATALYST CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds SCLC OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE COUNCIL OF SERVICE EMPLOYEES ↗
  • Who funds THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION ↗
  • Who funds THE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL NO 73 ↗
  • Who funds LATINO LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & ALAMEDA LABOR COUNCIL ↗

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.

Weingart FoundationCA30.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Weingart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · California Community Foundation · United Domestic Workers of America · The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · United Way Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Service Employees International Union Local No 99 · Seiu Local 1021 · California Nurses Association

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 Seiu Local 2015 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seiu Local 2015. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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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    How do I get to Seiu Local 2015?

    Find your warmest path to Seiu Local 2015 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 146 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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