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The Berghorst Foundation Inc

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.

$416k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$125k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$623kArts & Culture$449kEducation$393kReligion$273kYouth Development$185kHuman Services$97kPhilanthropy$93kEnvironment$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $277k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC$125,000
MAYO CLINIC$100,000
NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL$51,800
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - GA CHAPTER$40,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC$15,000
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC$15,000
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$15,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC$10,000
ERIKAS LIGHTHOUSE A BEACON OF HOPE FOR ADOLESCENT$5,000
JOHNS ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE$5,000
BRAVEN INCORPORATED$5,000
MYASTHENIA GRAVIS FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC$5,000
NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$5,000
CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC$3,000
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 (FY17–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WATERLEAF WOMENS CENTER INC: $2k → 7%HARK-ALS INC: $10k → 5%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $8k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $8k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $8k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $8k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $6k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $1k → 12%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC: $3k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $2k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $1k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $500 → 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

ME
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 62 repeat orgs$407k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
38

Total granted

$2.3M
$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+20%

Still filing today

77%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • VB
    VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $257k · revenue +916%
  • O
    ONEGOAL
    5× · 2017–2023 · $146k · revenue +44%
  • CM
    CROSSOVER MISSION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +759%

Funded once

  • AH
    ADVANCIUM HEALTH NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -68%
  • RC
    RIVERSIDE CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $43k
  • 1B
    10000 BRAINS NEURO AI INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
2
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
7
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
8
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

—
9
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
10
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
11
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 112 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/93
Grantees still filing
66/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF WINNETKA: $105,400 · OtherCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF WINNETKAMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICCOMMUNITY CHURCH OF VERO BEACH: $91,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHURCH OF VERO BEACHCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - GA CHAPTER: $82,500 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - GA CHAPTERUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $45,500 · OtherRIVERSIDE CHURCH: $43,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CELIAC DISEASE PROGRAM: $39,000 · OtherSTEPHEN M ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OF: $35,000 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY - PRATT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $35,000 · OtherNorthwestern University: $75,500 · OtherNorthwestern University+38 more: $304,335 · Other+38 moreVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $256,730 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART…RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $175,433 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE INCChicago Children's Museum: $58,500 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's Museu…Lyric Opera of Chicago: $45,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of ChicagoChicago Symphony Orchestra: $35,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchest…+4 more: $24,000 · Arts & CultureADVANCIUM HEALTH NETWORK INC: $100,000 · HealthADVANCIUM HEALTH N…Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $73,300 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lur…Endeavor Health Clinical Operations: $60,000 · HealthEndeavor Health Cl…INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVER HOSPI…Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $52,500 · HealthErikas Lighthouse …10000 BRAINS NEURO AI INC: $20,000 · Health+15 more: $80,050 · Health+15 moreONEGOAL: $146,100 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOALCROSSOVER MISSION INC: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentCROSSOVER MI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $43,400 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS…BRAVEN INC: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INC+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $84,500 · EducationNEAR NORT…THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $43,000 · EducationTHE LEARN…THE GENEVA SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN: $37,000 · EducationTHE GENEV…ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL: $27,050 · EducationERIE ELEM…THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $23,000 · EducationTHE ART I…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $10,000 · Education+7 more: $12,000 · EducationFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CHICAGO INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,810 · PhilanthropyGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $39,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Human ServicesHARK-ALS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesIMPACT 100 OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $5,100 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $4,500 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $3,500 · Human ServicesCHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC: $3,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$956,235Arts & Culture$594,663Health$440,850Youth Development$302,500Education$236,550Philanthropy$112,810Human Services$78,600

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 budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $256,730 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $175,433 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetONEGOAL: $146,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetADVANCIUM HEALTH NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCROSSOVER MISSION INC: $85,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetNEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $84,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $75,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $73,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Children's Museum: $58,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $52,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $45,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $43,400 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $43,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $39,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GENEVA SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN: $37,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL: $27,050 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $27,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSCLERODERMA FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO: $25,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetJOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $23,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CHICAGO INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budget10000 BRAINS NEURO AI INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $16,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDASIE BRIDGEWATER HOPE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $12,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association and Hospice Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetON COURSE FOUNDATION USA: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDRENS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARK-ALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLES TURNER AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSKOKIE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 1.4% 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 VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCIUM HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ↗
  • Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GENEVA SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds 10000 BRAINS NEURO AI INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗

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.

Indian River Community Foundation IncFL31.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Carwill Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John's Island Community Service League Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · The John's Island Foundation Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · The McCord Family Foundation Inc · The Ron and Nancy Rosner Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ned and Emily Sherwood Family Foundation · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc

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 Berghorst Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Berghorst Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Whole Family Health Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get 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 · 0–25%
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 112 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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