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The Hulston 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$2.9MHuman Services$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$1.1MFood & Nutrition$774kEducation$443kYouth Development$430kHousing & Shelter$410kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $630k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $405k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greater Kansas City Community Fdn$300,000
Cox Health Foundation$55,000
Univ MO Law School Foundation$50,000
Ozarks Technical Community College$50,000
Isabel's House Crisis Nursery$50,000
Springfield Victory Mission$50,000
Ozarks Food Harvest$50,000
Kanbe's Markets$50,000
CASA of Southwest Missouri$50,000
Amethyst Place$30,000
Salvation Army$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
James River Basin Partnership$25,000
Pete's Garden$25,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $977k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Least of These: $30k → 8%Good Samaritan Boy's Ranch: $50k → 18%Least of These: $25k → 8%Good Samaritan Boy's Ranch: $35k → 18%Least of These: $20k → 8%Good Samaritan Boy's Ranch: $25k → 18%Least of These: $20k → 8%Synergy Services: $15k → 8%Lead to Read KC: $10k → 15%Drew Lewis Foundation: $25k → 15%Camp Encourage: $6k → 15%Ozarks Area Community Action Corp: $10k → 15%Ozarks Area Community Action Corp: $10k → 15%Ozarks Area Community Action Corp: $10k → 15%Ozarks Area Community Action Corp: $10k → 15%Dogwood Ranch: $25k → 15%Dogwood Ranch: $24k → 15%Better Life in Recovery: $15k → 15%Better Life in Recovery: $15k → 15%Harmony House: $15k → 15%Youth Volunteer Corps of Greater KC: $15k → 15%Lost and Found Grief Center: $15k → 15%Lost and Found Grief Center: $12k → 15%Youth Volunteer Corps of Greater KC: $10k → 15%Lost and Found Grief Center: $10k → 15%American Red Cross: $20k → 15%American Red Cross: $10k → 15%SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging: $25k → 15%SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging: $25k → 15%Foster Adopt Connect: $55k → 15%SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging: $25k → 15%SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging: $25k → 15%Generations Village: $25k → 15%Mother's Refuge KC: $10k → 15%The Kitchen Inc: $50k → 15%Pete's Garden: $25k → 15%Pete's Garden: $25k → 15%Springfield Victory Mission: $50k → 15%Pete's Garden: $15k → 15%The Kitchen Inc: $25k → 15%Pete's Garden: $10k → 15%Springfield Victory Mission: $25k → 15%The Kitchen Inc: $25k → 15%The Kitchen Inc: $25k → 15%Springfield Victory Mission: $15k → 15%Guadalupe Centers: $10k → 15%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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.5M · 52 repeat orgs$847k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
29

Total granted

$5.5M
$594k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+14%

Still filing today

69%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TS
    THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI
    3× · 2019–2022 · $580k · revenue +94%
  • CF
    COXHEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $477k · revenue +36%
  • OF
    OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • FC
    FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +12%
  • CM
    Children's Miracle Network
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • VC
    Veterans Community Program
    one grant, 2018 · $50k

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
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
3
Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…

Human Services
4
Ozark Regional Share and Care

Provide basic human services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. for local people in need

Human Services
5
Cross-Lines Community Outreach Inc

To provide people in the Kansas City area affected by poverty with services and opportunities that encourage self-confidence, meet the needs of today, and provide the tools for future self-sufficiency.

Human Services
6
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
7
Forward Through Ferguson

Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…

Civil Rights
8
Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc

Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.

Community Improvement
9
Ozark Food Pantry

Our Mission is to reach out to those in need in our area by providing healthy and nuritious food and other necessities to families and individuals who cannot afford them. In addition, the Pantry refers families to other agencies which can…

Food & Nutrition
10
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
11
Ozark Opportunities Inc

To render constructive civic service, including the sponsorship of social, educational, and economic projects for the promotion of the welfare of the community and the citizens of the ozarks situated in baxter, boone, marion, newton,…

Community Improvement
12
Flourish Community Development Corporation

Following Jesus Christ, Flourish stands with our neighbors in need through our food pantry, heals through relationships of reconciliation with our transitional housing program and life skills classes and invests in our community through…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Violence Center and the most unlike its peers is Earth Day Springfield Festival. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyComprehensive Social Servic…Child Welfare and Protectio…Ozarks Community ServicesCharter Schools and Educati…Community Arts and CultureCommunity Grantmaking and C…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr12%5%5–10yr15%23%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr28%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr15%7%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr12%65%35–55yr28%7%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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%0/70
the rest of the field
13%
1,064/8,061

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

64 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. 64 of the 100 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
48/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation — $2,060,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community FoundationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC — $860,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INCCOXHEALTH FOUNDATION — $476,500 · PhilanthropyCOXHEALTH FOUNDATIONTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $580,000 · OtherTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURIUniv MO Law School Foundation — $400,000 · OtherUniv MO Law School FoundationThe Rabbit Hole Museum — $325,000 · OtherThe Rabbit Hole MuseumSALVATION ARMY — $240,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYOzarks Technical Community College — $225,000 · OtherOzarks Technical Community CollegeRiver Relief Inc dba MO River Relie — $180,000 · OtherORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI — $150,000 · Other+53 more — $1,606,000 · Other+53 moreTHE KITCHEN INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesTHE KITCHEN…Good Samaritan Boys Ranch — $110,000 · Human ServicesGood Samari…SENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $100,000 · Human ServicesSENIORAGE A…LEAST OF THESE INC — $95,000 · Human ServicesLEAST OF TH…SPRINGFIELD VICTORY MISSION INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGFIELD…PETES GARDEN — $75,000 · Human ServicesPETES GARDE…FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT…DOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION — $49,000 · Human ServicesOzarks Area Community Action Corporation — $40,000 · Human ServicesLOST & FOUND — $37,000 · Human Services+11 more — $201,000 · Human Services+11 moreOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC — $170,000 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $157,500 · Food & NutritionKANBE'S MARKETS — $125,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionMissouri Prairie Foundation — $80,000 · EnvironmentTHE JAMES RIVER BASIN PARTNERSHIP — $57,500 · EnvironmentColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture — $53,000 · EnvironmentEARTH DAY SPRINGFIELD FESTIVAL — $10,000 · EnvironmentKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentAmethyst Place Inc — $165,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $25,000 · HealthKANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC — $20,000 · HealthCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalPOLK COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE — $46,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$3,396,500Other$3,856,000Human Services$977,000Food & Nutrition$502,500Environment$210,500Health$210,000Crime & Legal$161,000

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 budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $2,060,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC — $860,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $580,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCOXHEALTH FOUNDATION — $476,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC — $170,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc — $165,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $157,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI — $150,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $125,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE KITCHEN INC — $125,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS — $125,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGood Samaritan Boys Ranch — $110,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC — $100,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetSENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEAST OF THESE INC — $95,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetSPRINGFIELD VICTORY MISSION INC — $90,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMissouri Prairie Foundation — $80,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetPETES GARDEN — $75,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE JAMES RIVER BASIN PARTNERSHIP — $57,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture — $53,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetPOLK COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE — $46,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetOzarks Area Community Action Corporation — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER OF REFUGE — $40,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLOST & FOUND — $37,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI — $35,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHOPECAM INC — $34,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBETTER LIFE IN RECOVERY INCORPORATED — $30,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HAVEN OF SOUTHWEST MISSO — $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE OZARKS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWONDERSCOPE INC — $27,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYouth Volunteer Corps — $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS GROW CORP — $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGenerations Village — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSPARKWHEEL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKS — $25,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIPOURLIFE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE OZARKS — $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC — $20,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetRESTART INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC
  • Who funds THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI
  • Who funds COXHEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC
  • Who funds Amethyst Place Inc
  • Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
  • Who funds ORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
  • Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT
  • Who funds THE KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Boys Ranch
  • Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC
  • Who funds SENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING
  • Who funds LEAST OF THESE INC
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD VICTORY MISSION INC
  • Who funds Missouri Prairie Foundation
  • Who funds PETES GARDEN
  • Who funds THE JAMES RIVER BASIN PARTNERSHIP
  • Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC
  • Who funds Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture
  • Who funds FOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC
  • Who funds DOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION
  • Who funds POLK COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE
  • Who funds Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation
  • Who funds RIVER OF REFUGE
  • Who funds LOST & FOUND

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.

Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO57.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Musgrave Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Arvest Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ozarks Food Harvest Inc · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers 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 Hulston Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report 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, 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 100 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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