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The Paul and Emily Singer Family 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.

$187k
Granted FY2025still arriving
67
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$201kArts & Culture$194kReligion$164kInternational$133kHealth$109kEducation$97kFood & Nutrition$91kAnimals$88kOther$0
02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k63 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
$1,025
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH$35,144
JEWISH NATIUONAL FUND$18,000
WEEKEND BACKPACKS FOR HOMELESS KIDS$15,000
KELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY$10,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL$7,500
IRVINE NATURE CENTER$6,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$5,000
AVDA - AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE$5,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$5,000
PASADENA HUMANE$5,000
BRIGANCE BRIGADE FOUNDATION$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$4,000
CHILD FUND INTERNATIONAL$3,500
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 (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AVDA - AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: $5k → 16%ROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 11%AVDA - AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: $4k → 16%ROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 11%AVDA - AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: $2k → 16%ROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 11%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%ROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 11%ROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 11%ROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL: $500 → 11%ROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL: $500 → 11%ROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL: $500 → 11%ROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL: $500 → 11%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $1k → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $1k → 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

MT
MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
AL
TX
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.
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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 20% of The Paul and Emily Singer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Paul and Emily Singer Family 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 104 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

104 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
34

Total granted

$1.0M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+22%

Still filing today

65%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% 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
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WB
    WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +416%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +25%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH SHALOM
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AW
    A WESTPHAL COLLEGE OF MEDIA ARTS & DESIGN
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
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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2
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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3
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
4
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
6
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
7
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
8
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
11
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Maryland Spca Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mica 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

103 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. 103 of the 151 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/103
Grantees still filing
74/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE OHEB SHALOM: $86,200 · OtherTEMPLE OHEB SHALOMJEWISH NATIUONAL FUND: $54,000 · OtherJEWISH NATIUONAL FUNDTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES: $39,140 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIESCENTER FOR HOPE INC: $20,000 · Other+96 more: $385,237 · Other+96 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $220,144 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION …UEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC: $8,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $8,750 · PhilanthropyThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $62,500 · Arts & CultureThe United St…PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $24,100 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA …PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $16,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA …TILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE: $14,000 · Arts & CultureTILT INSTITUT…SLOW BURN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $13,750 · Arts & CultureSLOW BURN THE…WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $9,500 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATI…JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $20,755 · Arts & Culture+11 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $108,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATI…CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $18,434 · InternationalCHILDFUND I…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $6,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,500 · International+3 more: $5,050 · InternationalMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $32,250 · EducationMCDONOGH …KELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY: $29,800 · EducationKELLMAN B…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $29,000 · EducationDREXEL UN…MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $7,000 · EducationMOORE COL…SAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $4,750 · EducationSIGMA PI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Education+5 more: $8,778 · Education+5 moreWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $79,300 · Human ServicesAVDA: $11,060 · Human ServicesROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL INC: $7,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $35,250 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $6,000 · Environment
Other$584,577Philanthropy$237,394Arts & Culture$175,605International$142,984Education$115,578Human Services$100,360Environment$81,250

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $220,144 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $108,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $79,300 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $62,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $35,250 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $32,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY: $29,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $29,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $24,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE INC: $20,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $18,434 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $17,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $16,775 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE: $14,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSLOW BURN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $13,750 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $11,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAVDA: $11,060 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $8,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC: $8,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAZZONI CENTER: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WICOMICO COUNTY INC: $7,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $6,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $6,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOODFORD CEDAR RUN WILDLIFE REFUGE: $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $5,258 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $4,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRUDE RANCH ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $4,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSIGMA PI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEquine Assisted Therapies of South Florida Inc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC: $3,500 over 8y, 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds KELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds TILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE ↗
  • Who funds SLOW BURN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
  • Who funds AVDA ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC ↗
  • Who funds UEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER 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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD32.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Middendorf Foundation Inc · Herbert Bearman Foundation · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · The Baltimore Orioles Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price 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 Paul and Emily Singer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul and Emily Singer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: 24% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
  • B&o Railroad Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Grounds for Sculpture Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Florida Holocaust Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
18report 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.

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 151 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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