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Thomas Thompson Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
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 FY20212025.

Health$2.1MArts & Culture$536kYouth Development$333kHuman Services$331kEducation$287kHousing & Shelter$249kFood & Nutrition$231kPhilanthropy$221kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $528k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $443k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHERN DUCHESS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$125,000
BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$100,000
BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$68,000
RESCUE INC$50,000
BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$50,000
GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE$50,000
WINDHAM COUNTY DENTAL CENTER$40,000
WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT$25,000
UPSTATE FILMS$25,000
WILDERSTEIN PRESERVATION$25,000
STARR INSTITUTE$25,000
NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATRE$23,000
BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE$20,000
SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC$20,000
ST BRIGID'S KITCHEN & PANTRY$20,000
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 (FY21–25, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER: $14k → 11%RHINEBECK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $15k → 9%RHINEBECK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $15k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 9%RHINEBECK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%ASTOR SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $30k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $30k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $20k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $20k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $15k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $15k → 9%BROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20k → 11%GARDEN PATH ELDER LIVING INC: $20k → 11%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%GARDEN PATH ELDER LIVING: $10k → 11%BROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7k → 11%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 51 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 +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
53

Total granted

$3.7M
$707k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

90%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $345k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BM
    Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
    5× · 2021–2025 · $946k · revenue +23%
  • ND
    Northern Dutchess Hospital
    2× · 2023–2024 · $286k · revenue +19%
  • NF
    NDH Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $180k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -54% · 27% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • VC
    VERMONT CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

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
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
2
Vermont Humanities Council

Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.

3
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
4
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
5
Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc

The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.

Community Improvement
6
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
7
Vermont Studio Center Inc

To support artists and writers by providing studio residencies in an inclusive international community, honoring creative work as the communication of spirit through form.

8
Vermont Public Radio

Listener-supported Vermont Public Radio has been serving the people of Vermont and the surrounding region since 1977. As Vermonts only statewide public radio network, VPR provides an essential and trusted independent voice for news,…

9
Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc

Mt. Ascutney Outdoors, Inc's mission is to promote vitality within the community by providing affordable and unique recreational, cultural and educational activities to local residents and visitors from the Upper Valley region of Vermont…

Recreation & Sports
10
Addison County Chamber of Commerce Inc

The Addison County Chamber of Commerce mission is to enhance the economic vitality of Addison County.

11
North Country Center for the Arts Inc

A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire

Arts & Culture
12
Bennington County Meals Program

Provide quality, nutritious and creative meals to individuals age sixty years and older; as well as, disabled residents of Bennington County, Vermont. This is accomplished through a community meal program and home deliveries to those…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harris Hill Ski Jump 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 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr19%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr19%42%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/99
the rest of the field
9%
193/2,262

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

87 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. 87 of the 122 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/87
Grantees still filing
46/87
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital — $946,000 · HealthBrattleboro Memorial HospitalNorthern Dutchess Hospital — $286,000 · HealthNorthern Dutchess HospitalNDH Foundation — $180,000 · HealthNDH FoundationWINDHAM COUNTY DENTAL CENTER INC — $140,000 · HealthWINDHAM COUNTY DENTAL CENTER INCBRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOC INC — $120,000 · HealthBRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOC INC+7 more — $204,000 · Health+7 moreGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC — $165,000 · OtherGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INCNORTHERN DUCHESS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $125,000 · OtherNORTHERN DUCHESS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONWilderstein Preservation — $100,000 · OtherWilderstein PreservationINTERACTION INC — $55,000 · OtherBRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE INC — $55,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC — $150,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INCFOOD CONNECTS — $57,500 · Other+60 more — $926,870 · Other+60 moreUPSTATE FILMS LTD — $57,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureRiver Gallery School Inc — $42,000 · Arts & CultureNEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC — $36,000 · Arts & CultureRHINEBECK PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureVermont Independent Media Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HATCH INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureEpsilon Spires Inc — $13,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesRHINEBECK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL — $40,000 · Human ServicesGARDEN PATH ELDER LIVING INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesBROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $27,000 · Human ServicesTHE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesOUR PLACE DROP IN CENTER INC OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER — $14,000 · Human ServicesTHEATRE ADVENTURE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesASTOR SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesCULTURECONNECT INC — $118,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC — $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT — $89,600 · EducationCENTER FOR HEALTH AND LEARNING LTD — $30,000 · EducationEDUCATION NETWORK FOR TEACHERS & ARTISTS — $25,000 · EducationHIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC — $21,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC — $10,000 · EducationGLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATIONINC — $10,000 · EducationIN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC — $10,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationRHINEBECK PARK FUND INC — $115,000 · Community ImprovementRETREAT FARM LTD — $40,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN BRATTLEBORO ALLIANCE INC — $11,400 · Community Improvement
Health$1,876,000Other$1,634,370Arts & Culture$353,500Human Services$291,000Youth Development$221,000Education$210,600Community Improvement$186,400

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 budgetBrattleboro Memorial Hospital — $946,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNorthern Dutchess Hospital — $286,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNDH Foundation — $180,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC — $165,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetWINDHAM COUNTY DENTAL CENTER INC — $140,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC — $130,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOC INC — $120,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCULTURECONNECT INC — $118,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetRHINEBECK PARK FUND INC — $115,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetWilderstein Preservation — $100,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT — $89,600 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc — $70,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetFOOD CONNECTS — $57,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUPSTATE FILMS LTD — $57,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetINTERACTION INC — $55,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE INC — $55,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC — $50,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTurning Point of Windam County — $50,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetRESCUE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC — $48,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRiver Gallery School Inc — $42,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetRHINEBECK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL — $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetRETREAT FARM LTD — $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC — $36,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC — $33,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH AND LEARNING LTD — $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN PATH ELDER LIVING INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $27,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetTHE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetRHINEBECK PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEDUCATION NETWORK FOR TEACHERS & ARTISTS — $25,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetBRATTLEBORO SENIOR MEALS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBrattleboro Retreat — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC — $21,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPARKS PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetVermont Independent Media Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HATCH INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHarris Hill Ski Jump Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER HUDSON VALLEY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% 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 Vermont Community FoundationVT75.7× affinity44 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844 · Periwinkle Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Frost Memorial Fund Inc · David Greenewalt Charitable Trust Geoffrey M Mason Trustee

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 Thomas Thompson Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 220%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Center for Health and Learning Ltd100% of income from government
  • Greater Falls Community Justice Center98% of income from government
  • Turning Point of Windam County83% of income from government
  • Groundworks Collaborative Inc73% of income from government
  • Interaction Inc70% of income from government
  • Southeast Vermont Transit Inc61% of income from government
  • Green Mountain Conservancy Incorporated49% of income from government
  • United Way of Windham County Inc26% of income from government
  • Retreat Farm Ltd25% of income from government
  • Out in the Open Inc25% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc24% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Housing Opportunities Inc22% of income from government
  • Food Connects15% of income from government
  • Governor's Institutes of Vermont15% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank13% of income from government
  • Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc11% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc9% of income from government
  • Downtown Brattleboro Alliance Inc9% of income from government
  • Parks Place Community Center8% of income from government
  • Rescue Inc7% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Connections Inc7% of income from government
  • Historical Society of Windham County Inc6% of income from government
  • New England Center for Circus Arts Inc1% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Memorial Hospital1% of income from government
  • Windham County Dental Center Inc1% of income from government
  • Garden Path Elder Living Inc0% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Retreat0% of income from government
  • Friends of Vernon Center Inc0% of income from government
  • Theatre Adventure Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Thomas Thompson Trust?

Find your warmest path to Thomas Thompson Trust 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 122 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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