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The Esther & Morton Wohlgemuth 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.

$201k
Granted FY2024still arriving
143
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$12k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$267kEducation$207kHealth$172kCivil Rights$170kArts & Culture$157kInternational$89kFood & Nutrition$40kHuman Services$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 143 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k138 grants · $147k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
$900
Median grant
22
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL$12,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$11,000
NATURE CONSERVATORY$11,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$10,000
PACIFIC FOREST TRUST$10,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$5,500
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$5,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$5,000
NAACP$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE$5,000
CONGREGATION BETH ISREAL$3,250
RAINN$3,000
CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $500 → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $500 → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $500 → 20%GROWING GARDENS: $2k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $2k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $2k → 12%COMING HOME CONNECTION: $900 → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $800 → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $800 → 12%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $500 → 17%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $500 → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $250 → 17%THE FOOD DEPOT: $2k → 12%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $500 → 20%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $500 → 20%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $500 → 20%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $500 → 20%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $500 → 20%THE FOOD DEPOT: $2k → 12%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $500 → 20%THE FOOD DEPOT: $2k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $2k → 12%YOUTH SHELTERS AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 12%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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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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 187 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

187 repeat relationships: 129 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

187
59

Total granted

$1.2M
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+21%

Still filing today

60%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +74%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +102%
  • TP
    The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated
    6× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +658%

Funded once

  • MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +99%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • WC
    WESLEY COLLEGE GEORGE MCLAUGHLIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
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.

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New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc

The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.

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5
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
6
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
8
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
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
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The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
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Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mighty Earth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Felines & Friends. 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

153 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. 153 of the 262 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
151/153
Grantees still filing
121/153
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $61,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $48,500 · OtherThe Pacific Forest Trust IncorporatedPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $33,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $32,000 · OtherNAACP: $25,500 · Other+129 more: $517,020 · Other+129 moreCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL: $106,400 · EducationCATLIN GABEL…SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $35,500 · EducationSARAH LAWREN…KENYON COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $1,750 · EducationAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $70,750 · Civil RightsAMERICAN …REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $17,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE &…NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $12,000 · Civil RightsNATIVE AM…FARMWORKER JUSTICE FUND INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsFARMWORKE…TREVOR PROJECT INC: $3,900 · Civil Rights+1 more: $3,600 · Civil RightsWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $41,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WIL…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $14,650 · EnvironmentNATURAL R…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $12,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUS…BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $10,500 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN …Oregon Parks Forever: $10,000 · EnvironmentOregon Pa…CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY: $8,500 · EnvironmentCASCADE F…FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $6,100 · EnvironmentMIGHTY EARTH INC: $4,500 · Environment+6 more: $7,150 · Environment+6 moreWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $14,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $9,350 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $6,462 · Arts & CultureWise Fool New Mexico: $6,200 · Arts & CultureTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE PLAYHOUSE: $3,850 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $29,390 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,250 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,000 · InternationalHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $8,500 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $6,900 · InternationalGRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA: $4,800 · International+3 more: $5,150 · InternationalRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $14,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $13,250 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · HealthGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $1,750 · Health+3 more: $3,900 · Health
Other$717,020Education$148,650Civil Rights$115,250Environment$114,400Arts & Culture$105,752International$82,600Health$49,400

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 budgetCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL: $106,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $70,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $61,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $48,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $35,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $30,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $19,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $14,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $14,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $13,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHEN ANGELS INC: $10,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Parks Forever: $10,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $9,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY: $8,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $8,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFARMWORKER JUSTICE FUND INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $6,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRONX DEFENDERS: $6,886 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $6,870 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $6,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $6,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $6,462 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWise Fool New Mexico: $6,200 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $6,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $6,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHWORKS: $5,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGrowing Gardens: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $5,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $5,000 over 5y, 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 CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Oregon Parks Forever ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FARMWORKER JUSTICE FUND 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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM31.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · The Ford Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Bolene Charitable Trust · St Vincent Hospital · The Abeles Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation 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 Esther & Morton Wohlgemuth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Esther & Morton Wohlgemuth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Deschutes Land Trust: 46% of income from government
  • Project Lemonade Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens: 6% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Portland Center Stage: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
  • Catlin Gabel School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Esther & Morton Wohlgemuth Foundation 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 262 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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