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The Halle Foundation

THE HALLE FOUNDATION seeks to promote international peace and understanding, knowledge, and friendship between the people of germany, as seen in its european context, and those of the united states.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$275k
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.

Education$3.8MArts & Culture$1.9MInternational$1.6MEmployment$444kSocial Science$402kCommunity Improvement$73kFood & Nutrition$45kEnvironment$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $2,017,275, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,133,406 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $116,131 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $259k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$54,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$98M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC$275,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$177,404
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY$169,400
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC$154,594
THE ATLANTA OPERA INC$125,000
GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES$115,000
AMERICAN ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF GERMAN INC$93,780
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY$93,662
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY INC$91,542
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE$84,200
AMERICAN GERMAN INSTITUTE$83,300
DALTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS$80,924
FRIENDS OF THE ATLANTIK-BRUCKE EV FOUNDATION INC$80,000
GERMAN CULTURAL CENTER GOETHE-ZENTRUM$60,084
GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY$54,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CULTURAL VISTAS INC: $206k → 17%TRANSATLANTIC OUTREACH PROGRAM GOETHE INSTITUTE: $145k → 14%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $310k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA - EXCHANGE PROGRAM: $75k → 13%AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE: $150k → 14%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $187k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $177k → 27%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF GERMAN: $138k → 12%CULTURAL VISTAS INC: $181k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY GERMAN STUDIES AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERS: $174k → 14%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $169k → 8%SOUTHERN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INC: $100k → 13%AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE: $99k → 14%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $126k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $77k → 27%AMERICAN ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF GERMAN INC: $94k → 12%CULTURAL VISTAS INC: $149k → 17%AMERICAN GERMAN INSTITUTE: $83k → 14%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $79k → 8%SOUTHERN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INC: $100k → 13%AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE: $84k → 14%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $94k → 24%AMERICAN ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF GERMAN INC: $60k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE ATLANTIK-BRUCKE EV FOUNDATION INC: $80k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY GERMAN STUDIES: $58k → 14%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $87k → 24%CULTURAL VISTAS INC: $75k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY GERMAN STUDIES AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERS: $58k → 14%CULTURAL VISTAS INC: $70k → 17%ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $275k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%CULTURAL VISTAS INC: $62k → 17%ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER - ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $150k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY - HALLE INSTITUTE: $96k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE ATLANTIK-BRUCKE EV FOUNDATION INC: $55k → 17%EMORY UNIVERSITY - CANDLER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY: $80k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY - CANDLER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY: $58k → 14%GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES: $219k → 13%THE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $125k → 13%THE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $125k → 13%GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES: $115k → 13%GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES: $110k → 13%AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY INC: $92k → 17%ATLANTA OPERA INC (THE): $80k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $155k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $64k → 13%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $300k → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $84k → 13%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of The Halle Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 51%.

The Halle Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 30% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 32 repeat orgs$578k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
16

Total granted

$7.8M
$402k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+17%

Still filing today

78%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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
EducationArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropySocial ScienceOther
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

  • CV
    CULTURAL VISTAS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $743k · revenue +7%
  • GA
    GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $517k · revenue +15%
  • KS
    KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $516k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of the Goethe-Institut in Washington DC
    one grant, 2022 · $145k · revenue -83% · 81% of their budget
  • AE
    ATLANTA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $45k
  • CH
    Community Health Aligning Revitalization Resilience & Sustainability
    one grant, 2022 · $36k
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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The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Augusta University Research Institute Inc

Augusta university research institute, inc. (the "institute") was incorporated under the laws of the state of georgia as a nonprofit corporation on july 31, 1980. the institute qualified as a tax-exempt corporation under section 501(c)(3)…

Education
3
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
4
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
5
Academy of International Business

We create, nurture, and empower a global community of scholars focused on creating, advancing, and disseminating knowledge in international business research, education, policy, and practice.

Education
6
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
7
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
8
The Amer Research Inst of the South Cauc

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) encourages and supports scholarly study of the South Caucasus states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) across all disciplines of the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences.…

International
9
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
10
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Georgia Independent College Association Inc

Georgia independent college association, inc ("gica") supports private higher education in georgia in the areas of public policy, increased public awareness, fund raising for student financial aid, and collaborative projects, in…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southern Center for International Studies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 55 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
32/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $516,350 · EducationKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FO…Emory University: $408,462 · EducationEmory UniversityGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $313,188 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCGeorgia Southern University Foundation Inc: $273,888 · EducationGeorgia Southern University …University of West Georgia Foundation Inc: $170,200 · EducationUniversity of West Georgia F…THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $131,100 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FO…MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $84,200 · Education+10 more: $235,521 · Education+10 moreGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $360,736 · OtherGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITYAgnes Scott College: $333,100 · OtherAgnes Scott CollegeSouthern Center for International Studies Inc: $250,000 · OtherSouthern Center for Interna…GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $219,529 · OtherGEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITYKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $219,086 · OtherKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $187,404 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIADALTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $135,092 · OtherDALTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS+13 more: $370,183 · Other+13 moreROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $425,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CE…FRIENDS OF GOETHE INC: $365,884 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF GOETHE INCAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF GERMANINC: $342,537 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF T…THE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $330,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLANTA OPERA INCGeorgia Boy Choir Inc: $293,400 · Arts & CultureGeorgia Boy Choir IncTHE GERMAN SCHOOL OF ATLANTA INC: $85,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL VISTAS INC: $742,881 · InternationalCULTURAL VISTAS IN…FRIENDS OF THE ATLANTIK-BRUECKE EV FOUNDATION INC: $233,025 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ATL…AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY INC: $161,397 · InternationalAMERICAN COUNCIL O…Friends of the Goethe-Institut in Washington DC: $145,028 · InternationalFriends of the Goe…WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $82,229 · InternationalWORLD AFFAIRS COUN…GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES INC: $517,188 · Community ImprovementCommunity Health Aligning Revitalization Resilience & Sustainability: $35,601 · Community ImprovementAmerican-German Institute Inc: $382,300 · Social ScienceAtlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated: $6,400 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $2,460 · PhilanthropyALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · Health
Education$2,132,909Other$2,075,130Arts & Culture$1,891,821International$1,364,560Community Improvement$552,789Social Science$382,300Philanthropy$8,860Health$2,500

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 budgetCULTURAL VISTAS INC: $742,881 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES INC: $517,188 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $516,350 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $425,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEmory University: $408,462 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican-German Institute Inc: $382,300 over 5y, 13% of budgetFRIENDS OF GOETHE INC: $365,884 over 8y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF GERMANINC: $342,537 over 4y, 15% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $333,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $330,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $313,188 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia Boy Choir Inc: $293,400 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetGeorgia Southern University Foundation Inc: $273,888 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSouthern Center for International Studies Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ATLANTIK-BRUECKE EV FOUNDATION INC: $233,025 over 8y, 79% of budgetUniversity of West Georgia Foundation Inc: $170,200 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY INC: $161,397 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetFriends of the Goethe-Institut in Washington DC: $145,028 over 1y, 81% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $131,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GERMAN SCHOOL OF ATLANTA INC: $85,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $84,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $82,229 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetIFYE ASSOCIATION OF THE USA INC: $60,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC: $52,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM & ARCHIVES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $39,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGerman Studies Association: $34,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetThe Waldorf School of Atlanta: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $20,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC: $19,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA CHAMBER PLAYERS INC: $11,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $11,292 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Cities German Immersion Charter School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION IN GEORGIA INC: $9,240 over 1y, 23% of budgetAtlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated: $6,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $2,460 over 4y, 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.

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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA23× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Institute for Educational Advancement Inc · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · American Chemical Society · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Ernst & Young 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 Halle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Halle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.
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How do I get to The Halle Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Halle 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 55 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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