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The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation

The foundation supports education, healthcare and childrens issues in the community.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$533k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$8.7MPhilanthropy$2.9MAnimals$1.7MEnvironment$1.5MHuman Services$929kArts & Culture$400kYouth Development$320kRecreation & Sports$239kFood & Nutrition$191kOther$2.0M
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k29 grants · $824k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $445k
  • $250k+2 grants · $852k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS$532,500
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$319,000
THE ARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND THE RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INST$210,000
MID-OHIO FOODBANK DBA MID-OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE$160,000
COLUMBUS HUMANE$75,000
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO$37,500
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO$35,000
2ND & 7$30,000
NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION AND COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC COLUMBUS CHAPTE$30,000
SIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$30,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER COLUMBUSCENTRAL-SOUTHERN OHIO REGION$30,000
A KID AGAIN INC$30,000
CORNERSTONE OF HOPE$30,000
LOWER LIGHTS MINISTRIES$30,000
FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY WOMEN'S SUSTAINING BOARD$30,000
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, $904k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $10k → 5%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $100k → 5%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $100k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS NORTH CENTRAL REGION: $30k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $25k → 15%ALVIS INC: $25k → 15%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $15k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $4k → 15%VILLAGE CONNECTIONS: $3k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $3k → 15%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $30k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $178k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $30k → 15%FUTURE READY COLUMBUS: $16k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $15k → 15%ST STEPHEN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $10k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $5k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $3k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $3k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $3k → 15%REEB AVENUE CENTER: $25k → 15%A KID AGAIN INC: $30k → 15%A KID AGAIN INC: $25k → 15%KID AGAIN INC: $60k → 15%KID AGAIN INC: $50k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $30k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $16k → 15%WESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY: $10k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER COLUMBUSCENTRAL-SOUTHERN OHIO REGION: $30k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN: $13k → 15%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

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MA
OH
PA
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MD
TN
DC

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 38 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
43

Total granted

$15M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+19%

Still filing today

84%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.5M · revenue +36%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +191%
  • CH
    COLUMBUS HUMANE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • DF
    DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +8%
  • TC
    THE COLUMBUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -1%
  • AS
    ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +360%

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
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
2
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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3
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
4
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
5
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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6
Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services
7
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
8
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
9
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

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

Human Services
10
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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11
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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12
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc

To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Stephen Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wings Charitable Foundation. 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 backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AdoptionHousing and Homelessness Se…Disability Advocacy and Sup…Community Economic Developm…Faith-Based Social ServicesFaith-Based Senior HousingYouth Development ProgramsCharter and Alternative Sch…Faith-Based Community Servi…Early Childhood Care & Serv…Youth Sports ProgramsOhio Advocacy and Policy Or…Veterans Service Organizati…Philanthropic Grantmaking F…Family Philanthropic Founda…
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 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%8%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr23%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr14%11%20–35yr14%57%35–55yr23%27%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/87
the rest of the field
12%
1,370/11,216

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

74 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 87 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/74
Grantees still filing
60/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $8,533,650 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+5 more — $120,500 · EducationCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $2,746,100 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATI…STAR HOUSE — $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $66,500 · PhilanthropyARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $630,000 · OtherARTHUR G JAMES C…Mid-Ohio Foodbank — $230,000 · OtherMid-Ohio Foodban…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO — $200,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMA…SIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $190,000 · OtherSIMON KENTON COU…NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION AND CO LLEGE HALL OF FAME INC — $100,000 · OtherBUCKEYE DIAMOND CLUB INC CO JAMES DURHAM — $100,000 · OtherDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $250,000 · OtherDIRECTIONS FOR Y…LIFECARE ALLIANCE — $100,500 · Other+45 more — $967,550 · Other+45 moreCOLUMBUS HUMANE — $1,215,000 · AnimalsCOLUMBUS H…INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC — $462,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIO…+1 more — $500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY — $1,497,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS O…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $247,500 · Human ServicesA KID AGAIN INC — $165,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER — $100,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC — $46,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $42,500 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC — $40,000 · Human Services+10 more — $157,700 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT COLUMBUS INC — $170,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLUMBUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $125,000 · Arts & CultureFRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY WOMENS SUSTAINING BOARD — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$8,654,150Philanthropy$2,912,600Other$2,768,050Animals$1,677,500Environment$1,497,000Human Services$928,700Arts & Culture$400,000

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 budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $8,533,650 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $2,746,100 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY — $1,497,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetCOLUMBUS HUMANE — $1,215,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $630,000 over 6y, 84% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC — $462,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $250,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $247,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $230,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO — $200,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $190,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT COLUMBUS INC — $170,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC — $165,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $130,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $125,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $100,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTAR HOUSE — $100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBUCKEYE DIAMOND CLUB INC CO JAMES DURHAM — $100,000 over 6y, 56% of budgetFRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY WOMENS SUSTAINING BOARD — $100,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetCHARITABLE PHARMACY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE 2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE BUCKEYE RANCH FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO — $66,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLOCAL MATTERS — $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLOGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION % JEFFREY D LOGAN — $50,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC — $46,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESS PRO SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC — $42,000 over 4y, 80% of budgetSEEDS OF CARING — $40,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetFRANKLINTON FARMS — $40,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHEARTLAND HIGH SCHOOL — $40,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetHope Hollow — $37,500 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER COLUMBUS SPORTS FOUNDATION — $34,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetBIG GREEN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUMAN SERVICE CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBESA COMMUNITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALVIS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREEB AVENUE CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Columbus FoundationIngram-White Castle F…United Way of Central…L Brands FoundationAmerican Electric Pow…Harry C Moores Founda…Siemer Family Foundat…Cardinal Health Found…Encova Foundation of …Nisource Charitable F…Columbus Jewish Found…Park National Corpora…
Columbus FoundationOH70.1× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · L Brands Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Park National Corporation 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 William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 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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