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The Jack Satter Foundation

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.

$6.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
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 2025.

Health$31MPhilanthropy$6.6MHuman Services$3.9MEducation$3.5MYouth Development$570kRecreation & Sports$520kFood & Nutrition$396kAnimals$310kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+9 grants · $3.9M
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION$1,000,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$600,000
CATIE'S CLOSET$400,000
SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL$400,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$350,000
ELS FOR AUTISM$326,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$300,000
HEBREW SENIORLIFE INC$300,000
MINDING YOUR MIND$250,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$200,000
HANLEY FOUNDATION$200,000
TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN PALM BEACH COUNTY$200,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$200,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC$200,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION$166,667
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 (FY17–25, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEADS: $165k → 11%NEADS: $165k → 11%NEADS: $125k → 11%NEADS: $125k → 11%NEADS: $100k → 11%NEADS: $100k → 11%NEADS: $100k → 11%NEADS: $100k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $100k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $100k → 11%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $10k → 16%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $100k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 8%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $100k → 11%YOUTH VILLAGES: $25k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $25k → 8%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $50k → 11%YOUTH VILLAGES: $25k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $25k → 8%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $50k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $10k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $10k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $10k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $25k → 11%CATIE'S CLOSET: $400k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $375k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $375k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $375k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $375k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $100k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $50k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $50k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $30k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $27k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $27k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $27k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA INC: $15k → 8%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
VT
NH
NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
RI
CO
DC
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 48 repeat orgs$620k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
16

Total granted

$46M
$605k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+48%

Still filing today

79%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +115%
  • MY
    MINDING YOUR MIND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +98% · 30% of their budget
  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +56%
  • CC
    CAREER COLLABORATIVE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -94%
  • SA
    ST ANTHONY'S SHRINE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
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
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Bmc Affiliated Physicians Inc

Boston university affiliated physicians, inc.'s (buap) primary mission is to provide health care services in a manner that promotes health for the benefit of the community, to perform medical and clinical research in the public interest,…

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8
Boston Children's Network Specialty Physicians Inc

BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…

Health
9
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Hebrew Seniorlife Hospice Care Inc

The mission of hsl hospice is to provide exceptional care to terminally ill patients and their families allowing patients to attain the highest quality of life possible. hsl hospice aims to provide the highest quality hospice service that…

Human Services
12
Hmh Hospitals Corporation

The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cotting School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. 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

52 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. 52 of the 68 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
39/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $5,600,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $5,070,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $2,600,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $1,461,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION: $900,000 · Other+25 more: $1,894,650 · Other+25 moreBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $6,087,738 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATIO…MINDING YOUR MIND: $2,910,000 · HealthMINDING YOUR MINDELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $1,437,000 · HealthELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATIONChildren's Hospital Corporation: $788,333 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationONE MISSION INC: $740,000 · HealthONE MISSION INCTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500,000 · Health+6 more: $830,000 · Health+6 moreHebrew Senior Life Inc: $4,765,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life IncJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $2,600,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center…HANLEY FOUNDATION: $1,825,000 · PhilanthropyHANLEY FOUNDATION+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCatie's Closet Inc: $2,115,000 · Human ServicesCatie's Cl…NEADS INC: $980,000 · Human ServicesNEADS INCWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC: $570,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED VE…ACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC: $474,587 · Human ServicesACCESSPORT…+5 more: $140,000 · Human ServicesBEACON ACADEMY INC: $750,000 · EducationEDVESTORS INC: $525,000 · EducationCOTTING SCHOOL INC: $440,000 · EducationCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $225,000 · Education+4 more: $120,000 · EducationFurry Friends Humane Inc: $310,000 · AnimalsLITERATIONS CORP: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$17,525,650Health$13,293,071Philanthropy$9,205,000Human Services$4,279,587Education$2,060,000Animals$310,000Youth Development$105,000

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 budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $6,087,738 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $4,765,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetMINDING YOUR MIND: $2,910,000 over 9y, 30% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $2,600,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $2,115,000 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION: $1,825,000 over 7y, 46% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $1,437,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetNEADS INC: $980,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION: $900,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $788,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC: $750,000 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetONE MISSION INC: $740,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC: $570,000 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetEDVESTORS INC: $525,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC: $474,587 over 9y, 13% of budgetCOTTING SCHOOL INC: $440,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFurry Friends Humane Inc: $310,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFranciscan Hospital for Children: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQUANTUM HOUSE INC: $125,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY SUPPORT TEAM INC: $125,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERATIONS CORP: $90,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF CALLAHAN SENIOR CENTER I: $50,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSari Asher Center for Integrative Cancer Care Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetDANIEL'S TABLE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMIND MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetCAREER COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMountain Vista Booster Club: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROCKLAND ATHLETIC CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 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 BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds MINDING YOUR MIND ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
  • Who funds HANLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEADS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds BEACON ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds COTTING SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Furry Friends Humane Inc ↗
  • Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
  • Who funds QUANTUM HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY SUPPORT TEAM INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF CALLAHAN SENIOR CENTER I ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Sari Asher Center for Integrative Cancer Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds DANIEL'S TABLE 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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA21× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Frenchmans Creek Charities Foundation Inc · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · State Street 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 Jack Satter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jack Satter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Hoops and Homework Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Edvestors Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Cotting School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 68 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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