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The Orchard 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$194k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.3MHealth$2.1MEnvironment$2.1MEducation$1.0MInternational$244kArts & Culture$218kCivil Rights$213kFood & Nutrition$147kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k59 grants · $181k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
$4,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EARTHJUSTICE$194,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL FBO ANN ROMNEY CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE$173,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$145,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$106,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$101,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$100,000
MCLEANS HOSPITAL FBO CENTER FOR NEUROREGENERATION RESEARCH$71,000
THE TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE$57,000
RAINFOREST ALLIANCE$53,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$51,000
MONADNOCK CONSERVANCY$50,000
SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION$50,000
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY$35,000
NATIONAL MARROW DONATION PROGRAM FOUNDATION$25,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$23,000
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 (FY20–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE MISS OF THE TREASURE COAST: $25k → 10%THE MISS OF THE TREASURE COAST: $20k → 10%THE MISS OF THE TREASURE COAST: $20k → 10%BRITTEN HARTNETT TYLER FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%THE MISS OF THE TREASURE COAST: $10k → 10%PEACE HOUSE: $5k → 5%THE MISS OF THE TREASURE COAST: $10k → 10%GREG HILL FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 8%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 8%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $5k → 16%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 8%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 8%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $5k → 16%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 8%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 8%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 8%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 8%WELLSPRING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 8%WELLSPRING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 8%WELLSPRING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 8%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT FBO ARTIST COMMUNITY RELIEF FUND: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $500 → 17%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 99% of The Orchard Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 3%.

The Orchard Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 118 repeat orgs$639k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

118 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
70

Total granted

$6.3M
$534k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+11%

Still filing today

73%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • EARTHJUSTICE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $625k · revenue +16%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    6× · 2020–2025 · $464k · revenue +28%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $380k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • PF
    Physicians For Reproductive Healthgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +27%
  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
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
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
2
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
3
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
4
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
5
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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6
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
7
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
8
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
9
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
10
Rainforest Trust

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

International
11
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
12
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Forestry Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Walter C Wattles Fellowship At Lloyds of London 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

154 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. 154 of the 223 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/154
Grantees still filing
111/154
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCLEANS HOSPITAL FBO CENTER FOR NEUROREGENERATION RESEARCH: $652,000 · OtherMCLEANS HOSPITAL FBO CENTER FOR NEUROREG…BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL FBO ANN ROMNEY CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE: $615,500 · OtherBRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL FBO ANN ROMN…Individual grant recipient: $190,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $123,000 · Other+108 more: $1,545,740 · Other+108 moreNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $1,445,000 · PhilanthropyNew Hampshire Charitable…Spartanburg County Foundation: $230,000 · PhilanthropySpartanburg County Found…VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $75,000 · Philanthropy+9 more: $153,555 · Philanthropy+9 moreEARTHJUSTICE: $624,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEThe Monadnock Conservancy: $190,000 · EnvironmentThe Monadnock Conservan…CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $168,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDA…ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES…Scenic Hudson Inc: $90,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club: $89,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Environment+27 more: $464,948 · Environment+27 morePresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $463,500 · EducationPresident an…HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $212,000 · EducationHAMPSHIRE CO…BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $46,600 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $40,500 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $38,284 · EducationNorthern Forest Center Inc: $33,000 · Education+13 more: $111,785 · Education+13 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $380,000 · HealthT1INTERNATIONAL USA T1International: $22,000 · Health+11 more: $60,660 · HealthEquality Now Inc: $140,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $106,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $34,100 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $25,000 · International+1 more: $7,000 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $202,000 · Civil RightsPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $38,000 · Civil RightsJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $10,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $15,000 · Civil Rights
Other$3,126,240Philanthropy$1,903,555Environment$1,801,948Education$945,669Health$462,660International$312,100Civil Rights$265,000

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 budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $1,445,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $624,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $463,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $380,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $230,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $212,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $202,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Monadnock Conservancy: $190,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $168,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $140,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $123,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $106,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $89,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMISS INC OF THE TREASURE COAST: $85,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $53,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $49,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $46,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDEFEND OUR HEALTH: $43,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $40,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCape Elizabeth Land Trust: $40,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $38,284 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $38,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC: $36,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $34,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc: $33,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $31,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BASSING BEACH INC: $30,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $29,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $29,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCITUATE FOOD PANTRY INC: $27,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace House Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $22,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetT1INTERNATIONAL USA T1International: $22,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $21,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRACHEL'S NETWORK INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 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 New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Monadnock Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC ↗
  • Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
  • Who funds MISS INC OF THE TREASURE COAST ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DEFEND OUR HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Cape Elizabeth Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds Physicians For Reproductive Health ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL 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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME40.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Onion Foundation · Eastern Bank 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 Orchard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Orchard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • Scituate Food Pantry Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellspring Inc: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Center for Circus Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
35report 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.

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 223 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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