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The Waterfall Foundation Inc

To serve as a supporting organization for other charitable organizations.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$350k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

99% of The Waterfall Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Waterfall Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 50 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

55
17
60
18
64
19
40
20
48
21
52
22
45
23
50
24
4
25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Philanthropy$21MEnvironment$3.7MHousing & Shelter$3.5MHuman Services$3.3MRecreation & Sports$2.4MHealth$2.2MReligion$2.0MInternational$1.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $663k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $600k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$-969035
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$350,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER$250,000
CHASTAIN PARK CONSERVANCY$200,000
GIRL SCOUT OF GREATER ATLANTA$150,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$150,000
ST CROIX MISSION OUTREACH$150,000
MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES$150,000
BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY$100,000
ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP$100,000
CHILDSPRING INTERNATIONAL$80,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$75,000
SANDWICH PROJECT$75,000
AGAPE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER$50,000
OCALA FARM MINISTRY$50,000
MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC$50,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE: $100k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $200k → 11%GOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%BLOOM OUR YOUTH: $50k → 6%COVENANT HOUSE: $200k → 17%Partners in Agriculture: $100k → 10%LIVING ON PURPOSE ATL: $10k → 10%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $25k → 6%OPEN DOORS INC: $50k → 14%St Vincent De Paul Society: $42k → 14%SER FAMILIA: $50k → 8%PROJECT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $125k → 9%PROJECT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $50k → 9%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $50k → 13%FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA: $50k → 13%HI-HOPE SERVICE CENTER: $40k → 9%LEAD: $50k → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $50k → 13%FRIENDS OF LARCHE ATLANTA: $50k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $50k → 14%New American Pathways: $25k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $50k → 14%SENIOR SERVICES OF NORTH: $50k → 13%LATIN AMERICA ASSOCIATION: $50k → 13%Quality Care of Children: $45k → 13%LATIN AMERICA ASSOCIATION: $40k → 13%Friends of Disabled Adults & Children Too Inc: $100k → 14%FRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHUILDREN TOO: $80k → 14%CARING WORKS INC: $50k → 14%CHRIS 180: $50k → 14%GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND INC: $50k → 14%CHRIS 180: $30k → 14%ODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $50k → 13%ODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING: $35k → 13%KATES CLUB INC: $50k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $50k → 13%THE SHINE COMM INC: $25k → 13%Crossroads Community Ministries: $45k → 13%Midtown Assistance Center: $35k → 13%PROJECT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $100k → 13%YOUTH SPARK: $85k → 13%JUMPSTART AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER: $50k → 13%EMMAUS HOUSE: $30k → 13%MULTI AGENCY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $60k → 13%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $50k → 13%ATLANTA VICTIM ASSIST: $30k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST: $50k → 13%QUEST COMMUNITY DEV ORG: $50k → 13%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 83 repeat orgs$8.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

83 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
166

Total granted

$16M
$7.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+27%

Still filing today

90%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • SC
    ST CROIX MISSION OUTREACH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +15% · 87% of their budget
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +119%
  • AF
    Amigos For Christ Inc
    4× · 2018–2023 · $800k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • DP
    Dynamo Parents' Club Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +19%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +1%
  • SE
    SCOTTDALE EARLY LEARNING INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -5%

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
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
2
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

3
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc

To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.

Housing & Shelter
4
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
5
Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services
6
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…

Human Services
7
Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc

Atlanta legal aid provides legal services to the elderly and indigent citizens of the metropolitan atlanta area.

Crime & Legal
8
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
9
Georgia Community Support and Solutions Inc

InCommunity provides meaningful support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live safe, healthy, and joyful lives in their communities.

10
Invest Atlanta Partnership Inc

To serve atlanta, georgia, by providing quality economic and community development resources to underserved residents in a culturally competent, fiscally responsible, and ethical manner.

Housing & Shelter
11
Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta

Cvc of atlanta encourages corporate members to develop excellence in corporate volunteerism. develop programs and provide resources.

Community Improvement
12
Center for Civic Innovation Inc

The Center for Civic Innovation uses local data and research to strengthen civic engagement and scale community-driven solutions in order to ensure that local public policy reflects the needs and the voices of people in Atlanta.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Childspring International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%71%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%4/274
the rest of the field
13%
240,392/1,819,291

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

249 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. 249 of the 279 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
70
Early backer (in before they grew)
239/249
Grantees still filing
172/249
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $20,930,045 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND+4 more — $230,000 · Community ImprovementST CROIX MISSION OUTREACH INC — $1,700,000 · Human ServicesST CROIX MISS…ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION — $532,800 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION…PROJECT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC — $275,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC — $242,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $200,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHILDREN TOO INC — $180,000 · Human Services+31 more — $1,875,000 · Human Services+31 moreDynamo Parents' Club Inc — $500,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $500,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES — $380,000 · OtherGirl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc — $475,000 · OtherATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC — $395,000 · Other+110 more — $8,681,800 · Other+110 moreTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,010,000 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC — $375,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $130,000 · EnvironmentTruly Living Well Ctr for Natural Urban — $120,000 · EnvironmentThe South Fork Conservancy Incorporated — $100,200 · EnvironmentTREES ATLANTA INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentGEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS — $100,000 · Environment+11 more — $591,000 · EnvironmentAmigos For Christ Inc — $800,000 · InternationalMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC — $665,000 · InternationalHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $325,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $80,000 · International+2 more — $100,000 · InternationalPARK PRIDE INC — $651,000 · Recreation & SportsChastain Park Conservancy Inc — $600,000 · Recreation & SportsCANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsGrant Park Conservancy Inc — $85,000 · Recreation & SportsCLARKSTON COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · Recreation & Sports+5 more — $250,000 · Recreation & SportsBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC — $760,000 · ReligionOCALA FARM MINISTRY INC — $245,000 · ReligionInspiritus Inc — $175,000 · ReligionEL REFUGIO MINISTRY INC — $75,000 · ReligionIMPACT46 INC — $50,000 · Religion+1 more — $35,000 · Religion
Community Improvement$21,160,045Human Services$5,204,800Other$10,931,800Environment$2,626,200International$2,070,000Recreation & Sports$1,751,000Religion$1,340,000

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $20,930,045 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST CROIX MISSION OUTREACH INC — $1,700,000 over 9y, 87% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,010,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmigos For Christ Inc — $800,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC — $760,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC — $665,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC — $651,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetChastain Park Conservancy Inc — $600,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION — $532,800 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDynamo Parents' Club Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc — $475,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC — $395,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC — $375,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $350,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $310,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC — $275,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetOCALA FARM MINISTRY INC — $245,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC — $242,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN RECIPE INC — $185,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHILDREN TOO INC — $180,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetInspiritus Inc — $175,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSCOTTDALE EARLY LEARNING INC — $150,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCLUBHOUSE ATLANTA INC — $150,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetGEORGIA APPLESEED INC — $150,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC — $140,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $140,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLaAmistad Inc — $140,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetPROPEL ATL INC — $135,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCHILDSPRING INTERNATIONAL INC — $130,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $130,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc — $125,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $120,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTruly Living Well Ctr for Natural Urban — $120,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetBREAD & WINE MINISTRIES INC — $110,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetSTATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC — $105,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe South Fork Conservancy Incorporated — $100,200 over 3y, 11% of budgetBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC — $100,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGEORGIA ASYLUM & IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC — $100,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMust Ministries Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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 Imlay Foundation IncGA173.1× affinity92 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · AEC Trust · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable 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 Waterfall Foundation 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 · 50%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 32%
  • Solar & Energy Loan Fund of St Lucie County Inc100% of income from government
  • Feeding Florida Inc32% of income from government
  • Our House Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
85report 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, 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.

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How do I get to The Waterfall Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Waterfall Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 279 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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