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Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts Inc

The women's fund of western massachusetts mission is to raise funds to advance gender and racial equity and acknowledge, confront and dismantle systems of oppression in western massachusetts.

$495k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $462,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $494,760 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,760 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $299k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$11,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMASS CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON FAMILIES$100,000
HEARTWING CENTER$45,000
ARISE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE$45,000
PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER$26,000
MAKE IT SPRINGFIELD$16,000
VISIONING BEAR$16,000
SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY OF SPRINGFIELD$16,000
ROCA INC$16,000
WOMEN OF COLOR HEALTH EQUITY COLLECTIVE$16,000
NELCWIT$15,000
BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT$15,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS$11,000
PARENT VILLAGES INC$11,000
NEW NORTH CITIZENS COUNCIL$11,000
CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS$10,000
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 (FY19–25, $252k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATIE'S CLOSET INC: $5k → 8%SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY OF SPRINGFIELD: $16k → 17%MAKE IT SPRINGFIELD: $16k → 17%GROWING A NEW HEART INC: $12k → 12%FINDERS COLLECTIVE (BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURSE CENTER): $10k → 14%GROWING A NEW HEART INC: $12k → 12%IT TAKES A VILLAGE: $8k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN MA: $10k → 17%PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER: $26k → 12%BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT: $15k → 12%PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER: $10k → 12%LATINAS 413 (FISCAL SPONSOR IS NONPROFIT CENTER OF BERKSHIRES): $12k → 12%THE SALASIN PROJECT: $10k → 14%SOW WELL TOTS EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAM: $10k → 14%PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INC: $5k → 17%PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER: $10k → 12%LATINAS 413 (FISCAL SPONSOR IS NONPROFIT CENTER OF BERKSHIRES): $12k → 12%ALIANZA DV SERVICES INC (FORMERLY WOMANSHELTERCOMPANERAS): $16k → 17%ALIANZA DV SERVICES: $12k → 17%ALIANZA DV SERVICES: $12k → 17%WESTERN MASS TRAINING CONSORTIUM: $10k → 17%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.
$1.4M · 28 repeat orgs$395k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
22

Total granted

$1.4M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+38%

Still filing today

82%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther

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

  • EF
    ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +206%
  • TH
    The Heartwing Center Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $105k · revenue +17%
  • 1D
    18 DEGREES INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $94k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION ENTERPRISES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue -93%
  • BN
    BOSTON NOW
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +55%

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
New Bedford Women's Center Inc

To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.

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2
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health
3
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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4
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
5
Ywca Central Massachusetts Inc

The ywca central massachusetts is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
6
Women's Money Matters Inc

Women's money matters, inc. empowers low-income women through financial literacy. the organization's comprehensive programming combines one-to-one coaching with a series of workshops that develop core money management skills and…

Human Services
7
Healing Abuse Working for Change Inc

To create social change by taking action against personal and societal patterns of violence and oppression. hawc provides services and support to victims of domestic violence in 23 cities and towns on massachusetts' north shore.

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8
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
9
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
10
Newton Community Service Centers Inc

Family access empowers and strengthens families and the community by providing programs that nurture child development, prevent trauma, promote effective parenting skills, and support working parents. for more than 117 years, family access…

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11
Northern Berkshire Community Coalition Inc

Improvement in quality of life in northern berkshire county

Community Improvement
12
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Western New England University. 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 backsteadyIndependent Secondary Schoo…Community Media & AccessYouth Development CentersMember Recreation ClubsRegional Community Developm…Springfield Community Devel…Public Libraries and Litera…Community Health SystemsJewish Community Organizati…Charter School Support Orga…Early Childhood Care Centers
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 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr12%16%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr17%31%35–55yr17%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr12%16%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr17%34%35–55yr17%27%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/61
the rest of the field
10%
476/4,813

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

54 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. 54 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
41/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $306,060 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC — $112,500 · OtherELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INCARISE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — $105,000 · OtherARISE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICEThe Heartwing Center Inc — $105,000 · OtherThe Heartwing Center Inc18 DEGREES INC — $94,167 · Other18 DEGREES INCCOMMUNITY ACTION ENTERPRISES INC — $45,000 · Other+24 more — $391,051 · Other+24 morePIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC — $46,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER VALLEY WORKE…ALIANZA DV SERVICES INC — $40,800 · Human ServicesALIANZA DV SERVICES …GROWING A NEW HEART INC — $24,800 · Human ServicesGROWING A NEW HEART …NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC — $24,800 · Human ServicesNONPROFIT CENTER OF …PARENT VILLAGES INC — $23,000 · Human ServicesPARENT VILLAGES INCDress For Success of Western Massachusetts — $23,000 · Human ServicesDress For Success of…WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS TRAINING CONSORTIUM INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN MASSACHUSETT…Make-It Springfield Inc — $16,000 · Human ServicesMotherWoman Inc — $16,000 · Human ServicesSOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY OF SPRINGFIELD INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesBerkshire Community Diaper Project — $15,000 · Human Services+7 more — $58,131 · Human Services+7 moreTAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $24,800 · HealthTRANSHEALTH INC — $24,800 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC — $10,000 · HealthBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $10,000 · HealthWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY — $24,800 · EducationRITES OF PASSAGE & EMPOWERMENT INC — $24,800 · EducationSpringfield School Volunteers Foundation Inc — $10,000 · EducationHOLYOKE COMMUNITY MEDIA INC — $8,000 · EducationFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC — $34,800 · EnvironmentVERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL — $10,000 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentPOCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC — $60,000 · Crime & LegalROCA INC — $28,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,158,778Human Services$323,531Health$69,600Education$67,600Environment$62,300Crime & Legal$60,000Youth Development$38,000

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 budgetELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC — $112,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetThe Heartwing Center Inc — $105,000 over 2y, 11% of budget18 DEGREES INC — $94,167 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC — $46,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION ENTERPRISES INC — $45,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetALIANZA DV SERVICES INC — $40,800 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC — $34,800 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNEW NORTH CITIZENS COUNCIL INC — $33,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRESILIENCE CENTER OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetROCA INC — $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoot Studio Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetPARTNERS FOR A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC — $24,800 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGROWING A NEW HEART INC — $24,800 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC — $24,800 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetAMHERST COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS — $24,800 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY — $24,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRITES OF PASSAGE & EMPOWERMENT INC — $24,800 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $24,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSHEALTH INC — $24,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARENT VILLAGES INC — $23,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDress For Success of Western Massachusetts — $23,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetWESTERN MASSACHUSETTS TRAINING CONSORTIUM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBerkshire Community Diaper Project — $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetARISE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSURVIVAL CENTERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWAM THEATRE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSpringfield School Volunteers Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCS FOR TOTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHILLTOWN VILLAGE — $8,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CARE CENTER INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc — $5,073 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $5,058 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INC — $5,058 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC — $5,000 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.

Community Foundation …The Beveridge Family …United Way of the Fra…Berkshire Taconic Com…Health New England IncBerkshire United Way …Berkshire Bank Founda…Agnes M Lindsay TrustArbella Insurance Fou…Lee Bank Foundation I…The Irene E and Georg…The Food Bank of West…
Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA61.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Health New England Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc

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 Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Alianza Dv Services Inc — 82% of income from government
  • Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
  • New North Citizens Council Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
  • Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
  • 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Safe Passage Inc — 55% of income from government
  • Gandara Mental Health Center Inc — 55% of income from government
  • Amherst Community Connections — 54% of income from government
  • Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Parent Villages Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Center for New Americans Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Valley — 30% of income from government
  • Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
  • Growing a New Heart Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Partners for a Healthier Community Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Baystate Medical Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Hilltown Village — 7% of income from government
  • Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
  • MotherWoman Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Wam Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Make-It Springfield Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Holyoke Community Media Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Western New England University — 1% of income from government
  • Transhealth Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
11rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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