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The Sam J Frankino Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
86
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$9.1MEducation$4.9MArts & Culture$2.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.2MHuman Services$1.0MPhilanthropy$895kInternational$534kOther$0
02FY2025 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $169k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $758k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $728k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND$1,260,000
GILMOUR ACADEMY$269,677
PATRONS OF THE ARTS IN THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF OHIO INC$260,346
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NE OHIO$236,049
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$171,679
CLEVELAND CLINIC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100,000
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$60,000
HATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION$60,000
HANDS TOGETHER$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CLEVELAND$50,000
THE GREAT LAKES MUSEUM SCIENCE CENTER$40,000
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$35,000
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC$30,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$30,000
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA$30,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS: $10k → 12%ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $15k → 17%ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $25k → 17%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $25k → 17%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $25k → 17%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $25k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $20k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $15k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $15k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $10k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $10k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $10k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $10k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $125k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $25k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $25k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $25k → 17%ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $25k → 17%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $25k → 17%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $25k → 17%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $25k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $27k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $15k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $15k → 17%KOINONIA HOMES: $15k → 17%I AM BOUNDLESS: $15k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $15k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $15k → 17%I AM BOUNDLESS: $15k → 17%KOINONIA HOMES INC: $15k → 17%KOINONIA HOMES INC: $15k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $15k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $52k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $26k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $26k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $26k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $25k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $25k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $12k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $12k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $12k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $12k → 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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
TN
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 143 repeat orgs$734k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

143 repeat relationships: 71 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

143
65

Total granted

$26M
$658k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+13%

Still filing today

64%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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 ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +71%
  • PS
    Playhouse Square Foundation
    4× · 2017–2025 · $769k · revenue +35%
  • PO
    PATRONS OF THE ARTS IN THE VATICAN MUSEUM OF OHIO INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $395k · revenue +695% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +578%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC COLE EYE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
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
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
2
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
3
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
4
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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5
Hospice of Central Ohio

Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…

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6
Catholic Charities Corporation

Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.

Human Services
7
Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…

Health
8
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
9
Grace Hospital

To serve as a center for excellence in the provision of specialized health care services and comfort for patients and families coping with catastrophic illness and injury.

Health
10
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
11
Mount Carmel Health System

We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.

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12
The Cleveland Foundation

Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Hannahs Home. 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

139 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. 139 of the 224 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
135/139
Grantees still filing
95/139
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GILMOUR ACADEMY INC: $4,182,091 · OtherGILMOUR ACADEMY INCUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND: $2,875,700 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELANDUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS: $1,895,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALSAMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $1,288,386 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CLEVELANDCLEVELAND CLINIC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,225,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC CHILDREN'S HOSPITALKIDSANCTUARY CAMPUS INC: $1,015,000 · OtherAMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NE OHIO: $984,989 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $662,725 · Other+107 more: $5,649,107 · Other+107 moreCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $1,189,848 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND M…Playhouse Square Foundation: $768,500 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse S…PATRONS OF THE ARTS IN THE VATICAN MUSEUM OF OHIO INC: $395,261 · Arts & CulturePATRONS OF …The Musical Arts Association: $186,080 · Arts & CultureThe Musical…+14 more: $255,000 · Arts & Culture+14 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $206,341 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $175,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $152,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $120,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $100,000 · HealthPROJECT CAMP INC: $50,000 · Health+17 more: $320,000 · HealthJOSEPHS HOME: $215,495 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $200,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $122,000 · Human ServicesNear Westside MultiService Corp: $75,000 · Human ServicesADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $52,155 · Human ServicesMERRICK HOUSE: $50,000 · Human ServicesWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc: $45,500 · Human ServicesKOINONIA HOMES INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesNOIA FOUNDATION: $42,922 · Human Services+10 more: $142,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $350,000 · PhilanthropyHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION: $310,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $47,500 · PhilanthropyHands Together Inc: $480,000 · InternationalLOVE IN NEGLECTED COMMUNITIES: $75,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $145,000 · EducationChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $130,000 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $50,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationCREATIVE EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC: $39,900 · EducationCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING: $30,000 · EducationJohn Carroll University: $28,000 · EducationHIRE HEROES USA INC: $25,000 · Education+5 more: $34,000 · Education
Other$19,777,998Arts & Culture$2,794,689Health$1,353,341Human Services$1,190,572Philanthropy$707,500International$560,000Education$526,900

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 budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $1,189,848 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetKIDSANCTUARY CAMPUS INC: $1,015,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $768,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $662,725 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHands Together Inc: $480,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetPATRONS OF THE ARTS IN THE VATICAN MUSEUM OF OHIO INC: $395,261 over 5y, 29% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $350,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION: $310,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetJOSEPHS HOME: $215,495 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $206,341 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $200,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $186,080 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $175,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $152,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $130,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $122,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $107,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $105,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE IN NEGLECTED COMMUNITIES: $75,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $75,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $61,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $58,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $52,155 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $50,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMERRICK HOUSE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT CAMP INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWOMENSAFE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc: $45,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHOPEWELL: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOINONIA HOMES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $43,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNOIA FOUNDATION: $42,922 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetGEAUGA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetONE HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $40,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELS: $40,000 over 4y, 2.9% 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 CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds KIDSANCTUARY CAMPUS INC ↗
  • Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hands Together Inc ↗
  • Who funds PATRONS OF THE ARTS IN THE VATICAN MUSEUM OF OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds HATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION 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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH93.2× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Corinne L Dodero Foundation for the Arts and Sciences · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The George Gund Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland

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 Sam J Frankino Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sam J Frankino Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Orlando Science Centerinc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Sam J Frankino Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sam J Frankino 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 224 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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