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The Burkehaven Family Foundation

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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
196
Grants FY2024still arriving
26
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.8MHuman Services$1.4MInternational$1.3MYouth Development$1.2MEducation$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.0MPhilanthropy$615kOther$0
02FY2024 · 196 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k96 grants · $325k
  • $10k–50k76 grants · $980k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.6M
$10,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY$200,000
MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL$110,000
GREENLIGHT FUND$100,000
GREENLIGHT FUND$100,000
NEW LONDON HOSPITAL$100,000
DONORS CHOOSE$81,500
SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA$75,000
SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA$75,000
TURNING POINTS NETWORK$50,000
SPOONFULS$50,000
GREENLIGHT FUND$50,000
NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN AND SHELTER INC$50,000
GIRLS INC OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$50,000
GIRLS INC OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$50,000
DIGDEEP$50,000
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 (FY19–24, $879k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $10k → 12%NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 18%INDIGENOUS JUSTICE: $20k → 12%CORE: $35k → 14%COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN: $10k → 14%BEAUTIFUL DAY: $10k → 14%HOPE ACTS: $10k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE SERVICES: $10k → 13%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 22%CORE: $20k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE CARE: $10k → 14%SCOPA HAS A DREAMDBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $5k → 9%CORE: $10k → 14%REFUGEE DREAM CENTER: $10k → 14%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $15k → 10%THE KWEK SOCIETY: $25k → 7%SHELTERBOX: $20k → 14%THE KWEK SOCIETY: $20k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $8k → 8%SHELTERBOX: $20k → 14%THE KWEK SOCIETY: $20k → 7%SHELTERBOX: $10k → 14%THE KWEK SOCIETY: $20k → 7%KEARSARGE AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $20k → 16%THE KWEK SOCIETY: $10k → 7%ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUCCESS: $10k → 7%ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUCCESS: $10k → 7%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $10k → 16%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $20k → 7%A LITTLE COMPASSION INC: $5k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $5k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $5k → 7%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $10k → 7%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $10k → 7%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $10k → 7%TURNING POINTS NETWORK: $125k → 10%TURNING POINTS NETWORK: $50k → 10%TURNING POINTS NETWORK: $50k → 10%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $5k → 7%TURNING POINTS NETWORK: $50k → 10%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $20k → 16%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $10k → 16%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

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PA
NJ
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CA
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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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 117 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

117 repeat relationships: 94 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
127

Total granted

$12M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+21%

Still filing today

76%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k 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
Human ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • GF
    GREENLIGHT FUND INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +46%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $705k · revenue +41%
  • WC
    WEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $560k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • GF
    GREENLIGHT FUND - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2019 · $225k
  • WV
    WILMOT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +4% · 35% of their budget
  • IA
    INTERFAITH AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +107%
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
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
2
International Institute of New England Inc

For more than a century, the international institute of new england (iine) has been creating opportunities for refugees and immigrants to succeed through resettlement, education, career advancement, and pathways to citizenship. founded in…

Civil Rights
3
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
4
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
5
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
6
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services

To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.

Civil Rights
9
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
10
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
11
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.

Crime & Legal
12
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopewell Inc; the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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

236 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. 236 of the 303 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)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
228/236
Grantees still filing
143/236
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $705,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIREDIG DEEP: $502,500 · OtherDIG DEEPGREENLIGHT FUND - NATIONAL: $225,000 · OtherACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL: $256,000 · OtherAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $183,000 · OtherNORTHERN STAGE COMPANY: $245,000 · OtherNISTO INCORPORATED: $306,500 · OtherNISTO INCORPORATEDSUNAPEE FIRE DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATION: $255,000 · Other+97 more: $2,599,000 · Other+97 moreThe New London Hospital Association Inc: $945,000 · HealthThe New London H…WEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC: $560,000 · HealthWEST CENTRAL SER…MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $402,500 · HealthMIDDLESEX HOSPIT…+7 more: $136,500 · Health+7 moreGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $1,727,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUN…+4 more: $55,000 · Community ImprovementGlobal Impact: $325,000 · InternationalGlobal Impac…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $237,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRA…Lifting Hands International: $182,500 · InternationalLifting Hand…DIRECT RELIEF: $150,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIE…AGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $127,500 · InternationalAGA KHAN FOU…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $105,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE …+17 more: $337,000 · International+17 moreSPOONFULS: $520,000 · Food & NutritionSPOONFULSNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC: $455,000 · Food & NutritionNASHUA SOU…NORWICH FARM FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · Food & NutritionNORWICH FA…+10 more: $145,000 · Food & Nutrition+10 moreSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $200,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG: $173,000 · EducationMatthew House AZ Inc: $157,000 · EducationNEWPORT MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $145,000 · EducationThe Uncomfortable Conversation Inc: $100,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $55,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $50,000 · Education+8 more: $94,500 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR SAFER COMMUNITIES: $275,000 · Human ServicesThe KWEK Society: $98,000 · Human ServicesCORE: $65,000 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $64,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesKIDS CLOTHES CLUB INC: $35,000 · Human Services+23 more: $292,000 · Human Services
Other$5,277,000Health$2,044,000Community Improvement$1,782,000International$1,464,500Food & Nutrition$1,230,000Education$974,500Human Services$879,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $1,727,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetThe New London Hospital Association Inc: $945,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $705,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetWEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC: $560,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSPOONFULS: $520,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC: $455,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $402,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Impact: $325,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNISTO INCORPORATED: $306,500 over 5y, 71% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR SAFER COMMUNITIES: $275,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL: $256,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetSUNAPEE FIRE DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATION: $255,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetNORTHERN STAGE COMPANY: $245,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $237,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $200,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $183,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetLifting Hands International: $182,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $173,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $170,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $160,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMatthew House AZ Inc: $157,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $145,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $127,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORWICH FARM FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $100,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetThe Uncomfortable Conversation Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 99% of budgetThe KWEK Society: $98,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetBROOKLINE SCHOOLS STAFF CHILDREN'S CENTE: $87,500 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetINTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES: $73,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $64,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILMOT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $60,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $48,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE PROTECTION INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetKIDS CLOTHES CLUB INC: $35,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetNEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC: $35,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC: $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFocus Humanitarian Assistance USA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH38.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Kitchings Family Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Barrette Family Fund · Bangor Savings Bank 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 Burkehaven Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burkehaven Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • Brian House Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • The Bridge Family Center Inc: 61% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey: 43% of income from government
  • Havenly: 40% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services: 37% of income from government
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Tri-Town Youth Services Bureau Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center: 8% of income from government
  • Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium: 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Northern Stage Company: 5% of income from government
  • The Welcome Project Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
  • Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Compass Working Capital Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Middlesex Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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 303 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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