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The Barth Foundation

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.

$379k
Granted FY2023
42
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$60k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Barth Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Barth Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 30 organizations, $379k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$1.5MPhilanthropy$730kEnvironment$349kEducation$222kAnimals$125kHealth$95kRecreation & Sports$95kSocial Science$70kOther$0
02FY2023 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k25 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$6,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Headlands Center of Arts$60,000
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$35,000
VINEYARD THEATRE$29,500
Ensemble Studio Theatre$25,000
PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION$15,000
Lindsay Wildlife Experience$10,000
CASA OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY$10,000
EARTH JUSTICE$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE$10,000
Jelly's Place$10,000
MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE$10,000
Food Bank of Contra Costa$10,000
MARIN THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$10,000
THE SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%MARIN THEATRE CO: $14k → 8%FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA SOLANO: $20k → 10%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $35k → 10%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $19k → 14%MARIN THEATRE COMPANY: $12k → 8%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $35k → 10%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $16k → 14%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $35k → 10%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $16k → 14%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $35k → 10%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $30k → 10%VINEYARD THEATRE: $30k → 17%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $30k → 10%VINEYARD THEATRE: $30k → 17%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $30k → 10%VINEYARD THEATRE: $30k → 17%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $100k → 8%VINEYARD THEATRE: $18k → 17%Headlands Center of Arts: $80k → 8%VINEYARD THEATRE: $18k → 17%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $68k → 8%Headlands Center of Arts: $60k → 8%VINEYARD THEATRE: $16k → 17%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $60k → 8%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $60k → 8%VINEYARD THEATRE: $14k → 17%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $60k → 8%PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $60k → 8%PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%VINEYARD THEATRE: $13k → 17%PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%SAVE MT DIABLO: $18k → 9%playwrights foundation: $13k → 10%PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%AURORA THEATRE COMPANY: $15k → 10%BERKELEY REPETORY THEATRE: $12k → 10%ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE: $27k → 17%ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE: $26k → 17%Ensemble Studio Theatre: $25k → 17%ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE: $25k → 17%ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE: $25k → 17%ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE: $25k → 17%ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE: $25k → 17%Ensemble Studio Theatre: $25k → 17%SHOTGUN PLAYERS: $28k → 10%SHOTGUN PLAYERS: $20k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 62 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2023, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
19

Total granted

$2.6M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

61%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthAnimalsEducationInternationalOther

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

  • HC
    HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $408k · revenue +76%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    7× · 2017–2023 · $230k · revenue +109%
  • ES
    ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +201%

Funded once

  • MT
    MARIN THEATRE CO
    one grant, 2017 · $14k
  • BR
    BERKELEY REPETORY THEATRE
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • AT
    ACT THEATER SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

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
San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company

Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.

Arts & Culture
3
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.

Arts & Culture
4
The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture
5
Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture
6
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

7
Theatreworks Silicon Valley

Our mission is to ignite imagination and foster meaningful connections as an outstanding professional theatre that celebrates diverse experiences and our shared humanity, enriching silicon valley and beyond.

Arts & Culture
8
American Repertory Theatre Co Inc

Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…

Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
10
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
11
Presidio Theatre

The mission of the presidio theatre is to ensure that the magic of live performance is accessible to the entire community.

Philanthropy
12
Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Silicon valley shakespeare is innovating the classics through unique and relevant theatrical experiences that illuminate and inspire modern audiences.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playground and the most unlike its peers is Animal Refugee Response. 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 49 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr12%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr18%11%20–35yr12%56%35–55yr12%30%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
13%
14,150/105,630

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

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 89 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
37/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $407,500 · Arts & CultureHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTSENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC — $202,730 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INCPLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $121,515 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INCShotgun Players — $67,000 · Arts & CultureShotgun PlayersBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $54,000 · Arts & CultureSan Francisco Playhouse — $52,500 · Arts & CultureThe Aurora Theatre Company — $45,900 · Arts & CultureMarin Theatre Company — $42,040 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $39,050 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $129,150 · Arts & Culture+11 moreVINEYARD THEATRE — $166,500 · OtherVINEYARD THEATREHeadlands Center of Arts — $140,000 · OtherHeadlands Center of ArtsHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL — $70,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $52,000 · OtherMAGIC THEATER — $41,700 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 · OtherCHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY — $62,500 · OtherCHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA …Northwestern University — $56,000 · OtherNorthwestern UniversityJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $42,000 · Other+44 more — $335,950 · Other+44 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $700,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE END…EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $230,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST …EARTHJUSTICE — $42,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTI…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $32,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLU…Save The Bay — $23,000 · EnvironmentSave The B…+1 more — $11,000 · EnvironmentMANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · EducationLUTHER COLLEGE — $22,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS — $15,000 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY — $91,500 · Community ImprovementJELLYS PLACE — $39,000 · AnimalsCONTRA COSTA HUMANE SOCIETY — $26,000 · AnimalsLast Chance for Animals — $5,000 · AnimalsAnimal Refugee Response — $5,000 · Animals+1 more — $2,000 · Animals
Arts & Culture$1,161,385Other$1,016,650Philanthropy$730,000Environment$338,000Education$107,000Community Improvement$91,500Animals$77,000

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 budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $700,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $407,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $230,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC — $202,730 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $121,515 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $91,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetShotgun Players — $67,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY — $62,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $56,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $54,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Playhouse — $52,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Aurora Theatre Company — $45,900 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMarin Theatre Company — $42,040 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $39,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJELLYS PLACE — $39,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONTRA COSTA HUMANE SOCIETY — $26,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetLINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM — $24,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Bay — $23,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE — $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKQED INC — $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER — $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLast Chance for Animals — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCrowded Fire Theater Company — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAnimal Refugee Response — $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMAGIC THEATRE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Thread Productions — $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORINDA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUTTER BAY HOSPITALS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUG RESCUE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPLAYGROUND — $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM
  • Who funds HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
  • Who funds ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC
  • Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Shotgun Players
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
  • Who funds Northwestern University
  • Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE
  • Who funds San Francisco Playhouse
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds The Aurora Theatre Company
  • Who funds Marin Theatre Company
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE
  • Who funds JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
  • Who funds JELLYS PLACE
  • Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CONTRA COSTA HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM
  • Who funds Save The Bay
  • Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE
  • Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC
  • Who funds KQED INC
  • Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

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.

The Shubert Foundation IncNY27.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Rock Foundation

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 The Barth Foundation 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.

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report 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, 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.

    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 89 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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