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William and Cynthia Marcus Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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William and Cynthia Marcus Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$279k
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$617kEducation$426kReligion$259kInternational$234kHuman Services$185kCivil Rights$124kArts & Culture$80kScience & Tech$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k48 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $214k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$788k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$32,000
TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM$27,618
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$20,325
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON$20,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC$20,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$20,000
SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON$18,000
GANN ACADEMY$15,100
VALLEY BETH SHALOM$10,770
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$10,000
JAFFA INSTITUTE$7,500
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$5,100
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$5,000
MIT HILLEL FOUNDATION INC$5,000
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 (FY19–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEARNING ALLY: $10k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $5k → 8%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $250 → 14%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $150 → 14%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $118 → 14%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $350 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $350 → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $46k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $20k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $13k → 8%SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES: $500 → 16%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

VT
NH
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 90 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

90 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
56

Total granted

$1.4M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+23%

Still filing today

52%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    4× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +4%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $46k · revenue +44%
  • II
    IMPACTISRAEL INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • JJ
    JDC- JEWISH DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +23%
  • AI
    AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
7
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
8
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
9
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
10
Brown Hillel Foundation

Brown risd hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their jewish identities. we are committed to having judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during their time on college hill and…

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11
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
12
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Forward Inc. 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

86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 168 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/86
Grantees still filing
62/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GANN ACADEMY: $225,186 · OtherGANN ACADEMYSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON: $153,500 · OtherSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTONTEMPLE BETH ELOHIM: $91,698 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELOHIMJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $83,072 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $69,732 · OtherBOSTON JEWISH FILM INCAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $59,435 · OtherVALLEY BETH SHALOM: $57,373 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION: $51,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $45,994 · OtherFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $41,166 · Other+110 more: $294,139 · Other+110 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $510,816 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropie…JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $20,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $28,266 · PhilanthropyThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $48,500 · InternationalThe Americ…AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $40,000 · InternationalAMERICAN J…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $32,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…IMPACTISRAEL INC: $27,610 · InternationalIMPACTISRA…THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $17,500 · InternationalTHE INSTIT…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $11,440 · InternationalAMERICAN S…COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $10,300 · International+4 more: $6,250 · InternationalJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $78,536 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $5,000 · Human Services+4 more: $4,218 · Human ServicesAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $46,100 · Civil RightsBABSON COLLEGE: $12,750 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $5,200 · EducationBRIDGES ACADEMY INC: $2,500 · EducationHEBREW COLLEGE: $2,180 · EducationGOLDEN BRIDGES SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationTHE TIKVAH FUND: $1,663 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 · EducationTHE BELMONT GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,000 · EducationJEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC: $1,000 · Education+3 more: $400 · EducationCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,100 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $9,200 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,600 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · Health+3 more: $400 · Health
Other$1,172,295Philanthropy$559,082International$193,600Human Services$107,754Civil Rights$46,100Education$29,693Health$27,300

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 budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $510,816 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $78,536 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $69,732 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $48,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $46,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $27,610 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUDAISM BY CHOICE INC: $20,804 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $12,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $11,440 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $10,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMIT HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $9,804 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $9,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $7,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $4,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $4,024 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $3,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES ACADEMY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $2,180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN BRIDGES SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $1,663 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRANITE UNITED WAY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrothers for Life: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELMONT GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $990 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $720 over 3y, 0.0% 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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDAISM BY CHOICE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
  • Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MIT HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER 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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Joseph and Rae Gann C…Lovett-Woodsum Founda…The Hamilton Company …Rockland Trust Charit…Jewish Community Foun…New Hampshire Charita…The Schifrin Foundati…The Beker FoundationThe Shapiro Foundation
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA47× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Schifrin Foundation Inc · The Beker Foundation · The Shapiro Foundation

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 William and Cynthia Marcus Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Cynthia Marcus Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Zamir Chorale of Boston Inc: 8% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 168 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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