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The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc

The philadelphia cultural fund was established by the city of philadelphia to conduct grant making activity and provide assistance to local arts organizations.

$7.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
234
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$502k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$24MEducation$2.0MYouth Development$1.5MHealth$868kEnvironment$444kCommunity Improvement$327kReligion$300kScience & Tech$287kOther$0
02FY2025 · 234 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $301k
  • $10k–50k177 grants · $3.2M
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.3M
$17,892
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF CITY & C$501,944
ST CHRISTOPHER'S FOUNDATION FOR CHI$500,000
PLEASE TOUCH MUSEUM$500,000
GREATER PHILADELPHIA HEALTH ACTION$500,000
KIMMEL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AR$500,000
FIESTA SCHOOLYARDS$300,000
ATTIC YOUTH CENTER$250,000
GLOBAL PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION$250,000
CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA$209,000
LIBERTY BELL POPS$150,000
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVA$150,000
PAINTED BRIDE ARTS CENTER$110,109
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIAT$100,000
TEAM THOMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION$100,000
SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC$100,000
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 (FY17–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA: $17k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $15k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $12k → 22%Philadelphia Contemporary: $10k → 22%Public Citizens for Children & Youth: $12k → 22%Public Citizens for Children and Youth: $11k → 22%Public Citizens for Children and Youth: $11k → 22%Public Citizens for Children and Youth: $10k → 22%Gershman Y: $11k → 22%The Gershman Y: $10k → 22%Village of Arts & Humanities: $32k → 22%VILLAGE OF ARTS & HUMANITIES: $18k → 22%LIGHTING ROD SPECIAL AT PRODUCER HU: $17k → 22%Village Of Arts & Humanities: $12k → 22%Village Of Arts & Humanities: $11k → 22%Village Of Arts & Humanities: $11k → 22%GERSHMAN Y THE DBA GERSHMAN PHILA: $14k → 22%GERSHMAN Y THE DBA GERSHMAN PHILA: $12k → 22%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$28M · 318 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

318 repeat relationships — 208 still active in FY2025, 110 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

318
13

Total granted

$28M
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+7%

Still filing today

86%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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 & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • CG
    CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $782k · revenue +126%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $610k · revenue +71%
  • KC
    KIMMEL CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $558k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • NE
    Nueva Esperanza Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +65%
  • GS
    German Society of PA
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • TC
    THE CALVARY CENTER FOR CULTURE & CO
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -18%

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
Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

2
Fire Museum Presents

Curate free musical performances

Arts & Culture
3
Emprendedores Inc

Education, arts and culture.

Arts & Culture
4
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
5
Philly Sound Exchange Llc

Students wrote produced and performed an original musical Bridges The musical follows students as they navigate their racial identities address issues of race at their suburban school and challenge a music education system in need of…

Arts & Culture
6
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
7
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc

The philadelphia cultural fund was established by the city of philadelphia to conduct grant making activity and provide assistance to local arts organizations.

Arts & Culture
8
The Philadelphia Chorus

Cultural engagement through choral music

9
Resonance Works

Resonance works is a Pittsburgh-based performing arts non-profit that empowers musicians and inspires audiences with intimate, genre-defying productions featuring everything from opera and musical theatre to orchestral, choral, and chamber…

Arts & Culture
10
Allentown Public Theatre

Allentown Public Theatre is dedicated to empowering our diverse communities through the performing arts. We expand opportunities for cultural participation and education in theatre, and create works that address contemporary issues.

Arts & Culture
11
Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…

Arts & Culture
12
Fm Kirby Center for the Performing Arts

It is the mission of the f. m. kirby center to foster the development of the arts by promoting, producing, and causing to be produced theatrical productions, exhibits and other entertainment as deemed to have a benefical impact. continued…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Lindy Foundation Alan/Frank/Elaine Lindy Trustees. 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 backsteadyAffordable Housing ProvidersPediatric Hospital Clinical…Community Behavioral Health…University Health & Educati…Legal Aid & Advocacy Organi…Food Access & DistributionJewish Community Organizati…Youth Development & Career …Pennsylvania Civic AdvocacyHospital Health SystemsArts & Cultural Infrastruct…Community Economic Developm…Trade Union Benefit PlansHealthcare Support Organiza…Youth Violence Prevention &…
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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%7%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%3%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%9/350
the rest of the field
17%
1,545/9,246

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

306 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. 306 of the 350 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.

43
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
110
Early backer (in before they grew)
293/306
Grantees still filing
204/306
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $782,074 · Arts & CultureCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIAFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $610,052 · Arts & CultureKIMMEL CENTER INC — $557,702 · Arts & CultureCARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA — $551,888 · Arts & CulturePlease Touch Museum — $516,594 · Arts & Culture+105 more — $11,603,560 · Arts & Culture+105 moreGreater Philadelphia Health Action Inc — $500,000 · OtherGreater Philadelphia Health Ac…ST CHRISTOPHER'S FOUNDATION FOR CHI — $500,000 · OtherST CHRISTOPHER'S FOUNDATION FO…GLOBAL PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATON INC — $250,000 · Other+55 more — $5,615,169 · Other+55 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $338,935 · EducationTRUSTEES …Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $221,928 · EducationTemple Un…DREXEL UNIVERSITY — $127,896 · EducationDREXEL UN…THE CROSSING INC — $119,360 · EducationTHE CROSS…Artwell Collaborative Inc — $118,388 · EducationArtwell C…LYRIC FEST — $108,275 · EducationTHE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA — $106,429 · EducationSOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP — $105,523 · EducationProject Capoeira Inc — $105,177 · EducationLA SALLE UNIVERSITY — $100,111 · EducationTermite TV Collective Inc — $98,367 · EducationISLAMIC CULTURAL PRESERVATION & INFORMATION COUNCIL — $96,591 · EducationCENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE — $88,372 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS — $87,660 · EducationMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $87,014 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $82,149 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERS — $78,812 · EducationTHE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ROCK PHILLY — $130,603 · Youth DevelopmentASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC — $124,004 · Youth DevelopmentTEAM THOMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentTINY WPA — $93,270 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER — $112,161 · Community ImprovementMT AIRY COMMUNITY SERVICES CORP — $110,040 · Community ImprovementCULTUREWORKS GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $109,044 · Community ImprovementNORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT — $99,414 · Community ImprovementLINDY FOUNDATION ALAN/FRANK/ELAINE LINDY TRUSTEES — $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $115,819 · PhilanthropyArcheDream for HUMANKIND — $136,582 · HealthARTZ PHILADELPHIA — $109,982 · HealthSickle Cell Disease Association of America — $100,000 · HealthArtistas y Musicos Latino Americanos — $66,424 · Health
Arts & Culture$14,621,870Other$6,865,169Education$2,070,987Youth Development$697,877Community Improvement$430,659Philanthropy$415,819Health$412,988

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $782,074 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $610,052 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC — $557,702 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA — $551,888 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPlease Touch Museum — $516,594 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC — $460,391 over 9y, 21% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $338,935 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEADLONG DANCE THEATER INC — $322,497 over 9y, 18% of budgetPHILADELPHIA DANCE PROJECTS — $250,375 over 9y, 37% of budgetGLOBAL PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATON INC — $250,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetTHE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER — $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $221,928 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILMA THEATER — $198,065 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetHistorical Society of Pennsylvania — $186,216 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC — $165,874 over 9y, 8.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE JAPANESE HOUSE AND GARDEN — $165,783 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $160,508 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERACT INC — $155,073 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $150,208 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetLiberty Bell Pops — $150,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetROCK TO THE FUTURE INC — $145,150 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC — $140,718 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetTILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE — $140,679 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC — $140,021 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetAsian Arts Initiative — $139,655 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetArcheDream for HUMANKIND — $136,582 over 8y, 99% of budgetKORESH DANCE COMPANY — $136,212 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PRINT CENTER — $134,022 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetGIRLS ROCK PHILLY — $130,603 over 8y, 60% of budgetSpiral Q Puppet Theater Inc — $129,683 over 9y, 13% of budgetCommonwealth Youthchoirs Inc — $129,465 over 8y, 21% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN PA — $128,575 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $127,896 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC — $126,873 over 8y, 33% of budgetKYL DANCERS INC — $126,808 over 8y, 13% of budgetPLAYPENN INC — $125,046 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetCOSACOSA ART AT LARGE INC — $125,008 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetEGO PO INC — $124,861 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetPERFORMANCE GARAGE INC — $124,440 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC — $124,004 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS — $123,413 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetGeorgia E Gregory Interdenominational School of Mu — $121,663 over 9y, 22% of budgetTHEATRE EXILE COMPANY — $120,268 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetFIRST PERSON ARTS INC — $120,218 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA'S MAGIC GARDENS — $120,175 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetBUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL — $120,125 over 9y, 26% of budgetSINGING CITY INC — $119,503 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetTHE CROSSING INC — $119,360 over 8y, 1.8% 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 CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC
  • Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC
  • Who funds CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds Please Touch Museum
  • Who funds Greater Philadelphia Health Action Inc
  • Who funds PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds HEADLONG DANCE THEATER INC
  • Who funds LINDY FOUNDATION ALAN/FRANK/ELAINE LINDY TRUSTEES
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA DANCE PROJECTS
  • Who funds GLOBAL PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATON INC
  • Who funds THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
  • Who funds THE WILMA THEATER
  • Who funds Historical Society of Pennsylvania
  • Who funds ARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE JAPANESE HOUSE AND GARDEN
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds INTERACT INC
  • Who funds WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
  • Who funds Liberty Bell Pops
  • Who funds ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC
  • Who funds MUSICOPIA INC
  • Who funds TILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE
  • Who funds SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC
  • Who funds Asian Arts Initiative
  • Who funds ArcheDream for HUMANKIND
  • Who funds KORESH DANCE COMPANY
  • Who funds THE PRINT CENTER
  • Who funds GIRLS ROCK PHILLY
  • Who funds Spiral Q Puppet Theater Inc
  • Who funds Commonwealth Youthchoirs Inc
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN PA
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds KYL DANCERS INC
  • Who funds PLAYPENN INC
  • Who funds COSACOSA ART AT LARGE INC

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.

The William Penn FoundationPA177× affinity137 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The University of the Arts · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Wyncote Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · The Presser Foundation · Stockton Rush Bartol 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 Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc 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%6%25%56%100%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
    69report 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 350 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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