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The Kurt and Julie Hauser 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.

$306k
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$25k
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$1.1MAnimals$351kArts & Culture$145kHealth$105kSocial Science$101kPublic Benefit$96kPublic Safety & Disaster$95kYouth Development$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $111k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $195k
$2,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
THE HILL SCHOOL$25,000
INDEPENDENT WOMENS FORUM$25,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$25,000
SALISBURY SCHOOL INC$25,000
NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL$25,000
CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION$25,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$10,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY - GSB$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$5,000
PARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION$5,000
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK$5,000
PARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION$5,000
CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC$5,000
THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 12%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $5k → 17%HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $3k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 12%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $500 → 6%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $3k → 17%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $3k → 17%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $2k → 17%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5k → 11%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $2k → 17%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5k → 11%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $2k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $2k → 11%THORN: $5k → 14%THORN: $3k → 14%THORN: $1k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 10%THORN: $5k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $17k → 10%THORN: $4k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 10%THORN: $3k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $1k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $1k → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%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

WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 62 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
45

Total granted

$1.7M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+20%

Still filing today

87%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +44%
  • NL
    Northern Light School
    7× · 2017–2024 · $178k · revenue +28%
  • CW
    CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +248%

Funded once

  • CP
    CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +64%
  • SL
    Summit Land Conservancygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +101%
  • PR
    Pacific Research Institute For Public Policygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +46%
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 Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
2
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
3
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
4
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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7
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
8
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
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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11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 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

115 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. 115 of the 130 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/115
Grantees still filing
81/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $440,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR…THE HILL SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOLNorthern Light School: $178,000 · EducationNorthern Light SchoolSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $120,000 · EducationSALISBURY SCHOOL INC+20 more: $115,668 · Education+20 moreDUCKS UNLIMITED: $120,000 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITEDSTANFORD UNIVERSITY - HOOVER INSTITUTION: $100,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY - HOOVE…PROTECTION AND EDUCATION RE ANIMALS CULTURE AND TH: $80,000 · OtherPROTECTION AND EDUCATION RE…SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $40,500 · OtherSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INCJUMA VENTURES INC: $46,000 · OtherJUMA VENTURES INCEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+57 more: $155,850 · Other+57 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $90,500 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $32,000 · Human ServicesTHORN: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $19,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $13,000 · Human Services+5 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $145,000 · EnvironmentMarin Art and Garden Center: $6,000 · Environment+4 more: $18,500 · EnvironmentFREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $21,000 · Arts & CulturePARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE: $15,500 · Arts & CultureMARIN OPEN STUDIOS: $11,500 · Arts & CulturePark City Performances: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL: $5,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $13,000 · Arts & CultureIndependent Women's Forum: $90,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $6,250 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthONCOLOGY NURSING FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $16,500 · HealthALS UNITED GREATER SAN DIEGO: $11,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $5,500 · Health
Education$1,053,668Other$567,350Human Services$181,500Environment$169,500Arts & Culture$142,500Civil Rights$96,250Health$95,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $440,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Light School: $178,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $145,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $90,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $90,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJUMA VENTURES INC: $46,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $40,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $32,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONCOLOGY NURSING FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budget10000 DEGREES: $23,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $21,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS: $20,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHORN: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN ACADEMY: $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE: $15,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSan Rafael Public Education Foundation DBA HEADSUP: $12,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMARIN OPEN STUDIOS: $11,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER SAN DIEGO: $11,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPark City Performances: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetECPAT-USA INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD SCHOOL OF GLOBAL MANAGEMENT: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Art and Garden Center: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL: $5,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $4,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY FILM COUNCIL: $4,500 over 4y, 0.2% 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Northern Light School ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Independent Women's Forum ↗
  • Who funds JUMA VENTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
  • Who funds FREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONCOLOGY NURSING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds PARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THORN ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds MARIN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds San Rafael Public Education Foundation DBA HEADSUP ↗
  • Who funds MARIN OPEN STUDIOS ↗
  • Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds Park City Performances ↗
  • Who funds ECPAT-USA INC ↗
  • Who funds KATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA41× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · McNabb Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust

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 Kurt and Julie Hauser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kurt and Julie Hauser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Kurt and Julie Hauser 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 130 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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