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The Asian American Foundation

THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION (taaf) serves the aapi community in their pursuit of belonging and prosperity that is free from discrimination, slander and violence, in furtherance of its charitable mission taaf conducts.

$9.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$500k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Civil Rights$16MEducation$4.1MArts & Culture$3.1MHealth$1.9MPublic Benefit$1.4MHuman Services$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.2MCrime & Legal$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k48 grants · $5.3M
  • $250k+11 grants · $3.5M
$100,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES$500,000
COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO$400,000
CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE$400,000
SIKH COALITION$360,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$300,000
ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES$300,000
ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP$250,000
ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION$250,000
RIDEBACK RISE INC$250,000
CISC-CHINESE INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER$250,000
CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA$250,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$207,000
CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER$200,000
SOUTHEAST ASIA RESOURCE ACTION CENTER$200,000
FLORIDA IMMIGRANT COALITION INC$150,000
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 (FY21–24, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRANSFORMING GENERATIONS: $30k → 14%SOUTHEAST ASIAN MAA COALITION INC: $150k → 22%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $75k → 20%MEKONG NYC: $100k → 28%TEXAS MUSLIM WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 5%BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $58k → 16%CISC-CHINESE INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER: $250k → 9%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $115k → 8%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $250k → 16%SEWA-AIFW INC: $30k → 11%KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC: $100k → 13%MEKONG NYC: $100k → 28%BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $58k → 16%CISC-CHINESE INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER: $250k → 9%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $100k → 8%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $250k → 16%MN8: $30k → 14%SOUTHEAST ASIAN MAA COALITION INC: $150k → 22%KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC: $100k → 13%HOMECREST COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $100k → 20%SAPNA NYC INC: $100k → 28%VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $100k → 14%CARIBBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC: $50k → 13%HOMECREST COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $100k → 20%SAPNA NYC INC: $100k → 28%TIDES CENTER - NCAPA: $100k → 10%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $500k → 17%THE KOREAN-AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC: $100k → 13%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $100k → 17%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $100k → 13%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $100k → 17%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $100k → 13%THE KOREAN-AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC: $100k → 13%AAPI EQUITY ALLIANCE: $100k → 14%ASIAN PACIFIC POLICY AND PLANNING COUNCIL: $100k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
NM
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.
$22M · 50 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
33

Total granted

$22M
$7.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+14%

Still filing today

98%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +37%
  • CA
    CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +25%
  • TS
    THE SIKH COALITION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $855k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +34%
  • Chinese for Affirmative Action
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -57%
  • TP
    The Pew Charitable Trustsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +36%
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
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
2
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
3
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.

Philanthropy
4
Caaav Voice Inc

CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.

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5
Association of Asian American Investment Managers

Founded in the Year 2006, the Association of Asian American Investment Managers AAAIM is a national trade association dedicated to the advance of AAPIs Asian Americans & Pacific-Islanders in the asset management industry. AAAIM supports…

Community Improvement
6
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…

Human Services
7
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
8
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
9
Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation

Advancing the AANHPI communities through increased leadership and civic engagement.

Civil Rights
10
Asian Inc

The core mission of ASIAN, Inc. is the empowerment of the Asian American Community to achieve social equality by reducing dependency to create and expand access to opportunities in the areas of business development, housing and education.…

Community Improvement
11
Asian American Lead

To empower AAPI youth in underserved communities through culturally responsive programming and advocacy.AALEAD envisions a United States in which all youth are supported, empowered, and celebrated within equitable, abundant and thriving…

Human Services
12
Association for Asian Studies Inc

A non-profit dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publication, research support and career development.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum; the most unlike its peers is Jeremy Lin Foundation. 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

102 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. 102 of the 106 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/102
Grantees still filing
58/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $1,790,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING …NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $1,500,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AME…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEChinese for Affirmative Action: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Ac…THE SIKH COALITION: $855,000 · Civil RightsTHE SIKH COALITIONSikh American Legal Defense & Education: $310,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $300,000 · Civil Rights+8 more: $811,000 · Civil Rights+8 moreASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $715,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN …ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN …Chinese Information and Service Center: $500,000 · Human ServicesChinese Informa…SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN…The Korean American Family Service Center Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesAAPI EQUITY ALLIANCE: $200,000 · Human ServicesMINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesSAPNA NYC INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesHomecrest Community Services Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $200,000 · Human ServicesMekong Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Human Services+8 more: $441,000 · Human Services+8 moreCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $815,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER OF SAN FR…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $646,168 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNI…ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $575,000 · OtherASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF …NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION: $445,000 · OtherCHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER: $400,000 · OtherASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $1,650,000 · OtherASIAN HEALTH SERVICESASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $399,946 · OtherACT TO CHANGE: $360,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $470,000 · Other+26 more: $3,333,000 · Other+26 moreThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyThe Pew Ch…Jeremy Lin Foundation: $750,000 · PhilanthropyJeremy Lin…GOFUNDMEORG: $620,000 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEOR…ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES: $425,000 · PhilanthropyASIAN AMER…ASIAN PACIFIC FUND: $125,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $150,000 · PhilanthropyASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $624,250 · Arts & CultureASIAN AMER…Sundance Institute: $607,000 · Arts & CultureSundance I…Center for Asian American Media: $500,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for…RIDEBACK RISE INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureRIDEBACK R…COALITION OF ASIAN PACIFICS IN ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureCOALITION …AAPI MONTCLAIR INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $125,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $105,000 · Arts & CultureTALKINGPOINTS: $1,000,000 · EducationTALKINGPO…THE ASIAN AMERICAN EDUCATION PROJECT: $400,000 · EducationTHE ASIAN…New York University: $300,000 · EducationNew York …THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EducationTHE UNIVE…Asian American Voices for Education Inc: $235,000 · EducationAsian Ame…NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER PROSECUTORS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationNATIONAL …TEACHAAPI: $150,000 · EducationTEACHAAPI+3 more: $114,000 · EducationCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $1,550,000 · Community ImprovementDaya Inc: $268,000 · Community ImprovementASIAN AMERICAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $125,000 · Community ImprovementNational Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development: $125,000 · Community ImprovementAPEX FOR YOUTH INC: $95,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $125,000 · Community Improvement
Civil Rights$7,566,000Human Services$4,406,000Other$9,094,114Philanthropy$3,070,000Arts & Culture$2,961,250Education$2,649,000Community Improvement$2,288,000

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 budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $1,790,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $1,650,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $1,550,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $1,500,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTALKINGPOINTS: $1,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE SIKH COALITION: $855,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $815,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetJeremy Lin Foundation: $750,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $715,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $624,250 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $620,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSundance Institute: $607,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $575,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCenter for Asian American Media: $500,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $500,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetRIDEBACK RISE INC: $500,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetChinese Information and Service Center: $500,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $470,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION: $445,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES: $425,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE ASIAN AMERICAN EDUCATION PROJECT: $400,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetCHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER: $400,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $399,946 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetACT TO CHANGE: $360,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetCOALITION OF ASIAN PACIFICS IN ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetSikh American Legal Defense & Education: $310,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIA RESOURCE ACTION CENTER SEARAC: $300,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetNew York University: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $300,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetDaya Inc: $268,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAsian American Voices for Education Inc: $235,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA: $225,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Korean American Family Service Center Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAAPI EQUITY ALLIANCE: $200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $200,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSAPNA NYC INC: $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHomecrest Community Services Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC ASIAN COUNSELING SERVICES: $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% 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.

GofundmeorgCA70× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gofundmeorg · Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc · Asian American Federation Inc · Asian American Coalition for Children and Families Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development · Robin Hood Foundation · Wallace H Coulter Trust · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Wallace H Coulter 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 The Asian American Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Asian American Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Aapi Montclair Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Asian American Resource Workshop Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
34report 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 106 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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