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Solon E Summerfield 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.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$772k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$9.6MHuman Services$7.0MYouth Development$4.9MPhilanthropy$2.6MEmployment$2.4MArts & Culture$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.4MHealth$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $4.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.4M
$75,818
Median grant
8
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC$771,936
NYC HEALTH HOSPITALS$372,000
GREEN CITY FORCE$338,322
THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING$335,695
NEWARK OPPORTUNITY YOUTH NETWORK$300,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$250,000
THE FOSTERING CONNECTION$220,000
THE MARCY LAB SCHOOL$200,000
THE BELL$200,000
THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC$166,667
NEWARK CITY OF LEARNING COLLABORATIVE (NCLC)$155,652
BOTTOM LINE$151,247
ARBOR RISING$150,729
JEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN$150,729
EXALT YOUTH$150,729
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 (FY19–24, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $339k → 17%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10k → 8%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $12k → 19%THE FOSTERING CONNECTION: $220k → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 7%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $336k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 19%THE FOSTERING CONNECTION: $220k → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $23k → 7%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $334k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $21k → 7%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $100k → 17%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $76k → 17%NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $75k → 17%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $40k → 17%GREEN CITY FORCE: $338k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $334k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $334k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $122k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $120k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $76k → 20%INSPIRING FUTURES INC: $125k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $35k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $34k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $103k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $101k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $280k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $279k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $275k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $103k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $101k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $100k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $76k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $75k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $25k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $23k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $21k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $16k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $12k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $6k → 17%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

VT
NY
IN
NJ
CO
NE
WV
VA
MD
KS
NC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 64 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

64 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
17

Total granted

$32M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+66%

Still filing today

75%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $917k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEmploymentArts & CultureOther
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

  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +22%
  • TD
    THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +56%
  • FF
    FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR FAIR FUTURES
    one grant, 2022 · $331k
  • RU
    RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF CUNY
    one grant, 2019 · $300k
  • CN
    CODE NATION - NEW YORK
    one grant, 2023 · $153k
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
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
Futures Ignite Inc

We amplify youth and community power by inspiring, guiding, and advocating for youth to determine their college, career, and leadership futures.

Human Services
3
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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4
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
5
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
6
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
12
The Teak Fellowship Inc

To help academically talented new york city students from low-income families earn admission into the most selective secondary schools and colleges.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundling; the most unlike its peers is Harbor Fund 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

56 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. 56 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/56
Grantees still filing
43/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARBOR FUND INC: $1,503,238 · OtherHARBOR FUND INCTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $1,413,007 · OtherTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INCNEWARK OPPORTUNITY YOUTH NETWORK: $1,150,000 · OtherNEWARK OPPORTUNITY YOUTH NETWORKGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $894,085 · OtherGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTERNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $550,000 · OtherLEGAL OUTREACH INC: $503,880 · OtherONEGOAL: $481,015 · OtherJEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN: $846,183 · OtherJEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTANEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $511,138 · Other+43 more: $6,212,029 · Other+43 moreResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $2,290,115 · EducationResearch Foundation of th…The Kansas University Endowment Association: $1,281,820 · EducationThe Kansas University End…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $918,658 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE F…MARCY LAB INC: $800,000 · EducationMARCY LAB INCTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $579,999 · EducationTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY …SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $550,000 · EducationSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION IN…GENESYS WORKS: $532,226 · EducationGENESYS WORKSSCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION: $406,940 · EducationAT THE TABLE INC: $300,000 · Education+3 more: $262,203 · EducationGREEN CITY FORCE INC: $1,324,120 · Human ServicesGREEN CITY FORCE…NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $1,299,780 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOUNDLI…HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1,290,623 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SET…The Fostering Connection Inc: $440,000 · Human ServicesThe Fostering Co…THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $204,153 · Human Services+5 more: $410,828 · Human Services+5 moreFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $1,388,867 · PhilanthropyARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING: $1,085,091 · Philanthropy+3 more: $175,118 · PhilanthropyTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $1,326,034 · Community ImprovementTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $333,334 · Community ImprovementBROOKLYN NAVY YARD DEVELOPMENT CORP: $315,000 · Community ImprovementThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc: $700,000 · EmploymentSUMMER SEARCH: $663,443 · EmploymentDRIVE CHANGE INC: $300,000 · EmploymentWORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS TRAINING INSTITUTE: $250,000 · EmploymentREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC: $715,000 · Youth DevelopmentEXALT YOUTH: $505,436 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $161,472 · Youth DevelopmentMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $159,970 · Youth Development+1 more: $50,594 · Youth Development
Other$14,064,575Education$7,921,961Human Services$4,969,504Philanthropy$2,649,076Community Improvement$1,974,368Employment$1,913,443Youth Development$1,592,472

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $2,290,115 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHARBOR FUND INC: $1,503,238 over 2y, 93% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $1,413,007 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $1,388,867 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $1,326,034 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetGREEN CITY FORCE INC: $1,324,120 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $1,299,780 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1,290,623 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $1,281,820 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING: $1,085,091 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $918,658 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $894,085 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN: $846,183 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMARCY LAB INC: $800,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC: $715,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc: $700,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $663,443 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $579,999 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $550,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGENESYS WORKS: $532,226 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $511,138 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEXALT YOUTH: $505,436 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetLEGAL OUTREACH INC: $503,880 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $453,770 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $425,862 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION: $406,940 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $375,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $333,334 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBROOKLYN NAVY YARD DEVELOPMENT CORP: $315,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDRIVE CHANGE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetAT THE TABLE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetWORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS TRAINING INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $204,153 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $201,106 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $183,322 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $161,472 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $159,970 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC: $155,555 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $144,620 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFUTURES AND OPTIONS INC: $130,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetINSPIRING FUTURES INC: $125,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $103,323 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $103,323 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $103,323 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $97,552 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $84,923 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC: $81,151 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $69,182 over 2y, 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 Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEN CITY FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDLING ↗
  • Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
  • Who funds ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN ↗
  • Who funds MARCY LAB INC ↗
  • Who funds REEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC ↗
  • Who funds The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GENESYS WORKS ↗
  • Who funds EAST SIDE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds EXALT YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds The Fostering Connection Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN NAVY YARD DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds DRIVE CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds AT THE TABLE 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.

Pinkerton FoundationNY38.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Harbor Fund Inc · Altman Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Ira Decamp Foundation Xxxxx2009 · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Marion E Kenworthy Sarah H Swift Foundation · Arbor Brothers Inc Dba Arbor Rising · Tiger 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 Solon E Summerfield Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Solon E Summerfield Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Solon E Summerfield Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 91 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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