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American Association of People With Disabilities

The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES works to improve the lives of people with disabilities by acting as a convener, connector, and catalyst for change, increasing the political and economic power of people with disabilities.

$680k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES’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.

02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 52 grants below total $380,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $680,266 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $300,266 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $223k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $158k
$7,500
Median grant
23
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW DISABLED SOUTH$17,500
SELF-ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK$10,000
BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING$10,000
PARAQUAD INC$10,000
BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$10,000
THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE$10,000
GALLAUDET UNIV CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY IN DEAF AMERICA$10,000
PATIENTS RIGHTS ACTION FUND INC$10,000
CT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL$10,000
PROJECT READY INC$10,000
LIVING INDEPENDENTLY IS FOR EVERYONE (LIFE) AT RCIL$10,000
DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA$10,000
BROOKLYN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED INC (BCID)$10,000
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF CENTRAL PA (CILCP)$10,000
REV UP TEXAS$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 (FY18–24, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA STATE WIDE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL: $10k → 11%STAVROS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10k → 12%LIVING INDEPENDENCE NETWORK CORPORATION: $8k → 8%BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10k → 6%LIFE AND INDEPENDENCE FOR TODAY: $5k → 10%DISABILITY OPTIONS NETWORK: $5k → 13%THE ARC OF PHILADELPHIA: $8k → 22%CRIL: $5k → 10%SPM DISABILITY JUSTICE FUND: $5k → 10%PROJECT READY INC: $10k → 9%NORTH COUNTRY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED NY: $10k → 17%BROOKLYN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED INC (BCID): $10k → 20%PEOPLE FIRST WISCONSIN: $5k → 17%CT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL: $10k → 11%TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION: $8k → 14%WALTON OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $2k → 18%DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $18k → 9%YMCA USA INC: $5k → 14%THE ARC OF MARYLAND: $5k → 6%STAVROS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $8k → 12%THE ARC OF MINNESOTA: $8k → 14%WESTCHESTER DISABLED ON THE MOVE INC: $5k → 9%BROOKLYN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED INC (BCID): $10k → 20%CT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL: $10k → 11%TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION: $8k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED NY: $5k → 17%TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION: $8k → 14%DISABILITY RIGHTS TN: $8k → 14%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $10k → 14%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $5k → 14%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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ID
MN
IL
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MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$661k · 29 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
34

Total granted

$661k
$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+25%

Still filing today

90%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsEducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

  • DA
    DISABILITY ACTION CENTER OF GEORGIA INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $85k · revenue +54%
  • ND
    New Disabled South Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $53k · revenue ×40 · 29% of their budget
  • TA
    THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES
    3× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • DR
    DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +34%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $17k
  • TA
    THE ARC MINNESOTA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +13%

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
Alliance of Disability Advocates

To serve all north carolinians with significant disabilities by ensuring they can live independently in a barrier-free community of their choice through consumer-controlled, self-directed services.

Religion
2
Disabled Information Awareness and Living Inc

a federally mandated disability services agency providing information and referral, technical guidance, advocacy services, peer counseling, independent living skills programs, community education, and community recreation

Human Services
3
Disability Rights and Resource Center Inc

To advocate for disabled individuals and to plan and develop programs and services to aid individuals with disabilities in reaching maximum personal independence.

Health
4
Disability Resource Network

To promote independence to people with disabilities through advocacy, public education, and consumer controlled independent living services.

Human Services
5
Progress Center for Independent Living

Progress center for independent living is a consumer controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential, private nonprofit agency that has been designed by individuals with disa biilities to operate within suburban cook county,…

6
Disability Policy Consortium Inc

Redefining the role of government as it affects the lives of people with disabilities

Civil Rights
7
Achieving Independence and Mobility Cil

Independent living services for persons with disabilities.

Human Services
8
Center for Independence Inc

The Center for Independence promotes community solutions and empowers individuals with disabilities to live independently.

Human Services
9
Accessible Resources for Independence Inc

The mission is to maximize the independence of people with disabilities so they enjoy self-directed, productive lives.

Human Services
10
Center for Disabilities

Independent living service to disabled clients including information and referral, advocacy, peer counseling, il skills training, housing, employment, ramp installation, emergency rent, utilities and food.

Human Services
11
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc

Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…

Health
12
Disability Resource Center

To empower persons with disabilities to achieve and maintain independence in their communities. the disability resource center provides services to people of all ages with all types of disabilities, as well as to those who support them.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Johns Hopkins Hospital. 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 backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersYouth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …
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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%41%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

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

orgs you fund
1%1/82
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,483

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

73 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. 73 of the 83 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
47/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION — $30,000 · OtherMICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITIONREV UP TEXAS — $30,000 · OtherREV UP TEXASSELF-ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION IN NEW YO STATE INC — $22,000 · OtherPARAQUAD INC — $19,000 · OtherLIBERTY RESOURCES INC — $18,000 · OtherTHRIVE CIL — $17,500 · OtherResources for Independence Central Valley — $17,500 · OtherThe Arc of Illinois — $17,500 · OtherLIVING INDEPENDENTLY IS FOR EVERYONE AT RCIL INC — $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $17,000 · OtherCANDID — $25,000 · OtherDISABILITY LAW CENTER INC — $19,500 · OtherBENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $20,000 · Other+31 more — $225,500 · Other+31 moreTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STAT…TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION — $23,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE DISABILITY COALI…Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesBrooklyn Center for Indepe…CONNECTICUT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTICUT STATE INDEPEND…DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON — $18,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGT…Stavros Center for Independent Living Inc — $17,500 · Human ServicesStavros Center for Indepen…CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF…PROJECT READY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesStatewide Independent Living Council — $10,000 · Human ServicesBUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTH COUNTRY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE — $10,000 · Human Services+12 more — $62,000 · Human Services+12 moreNew Disabled South Inc — $52,500 · HealthNew Disabl…THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL — $10,000 · HealthTHE JOHNS …INSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC — $10,000 · HealthINSTITUTE …DAVID A WINSTON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP — $7,500 · HealthDAVID A WI…SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR FAMILIES AN — $5,000 · HealthNational Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association — $5,000 · HealthSOURCES FOR COMMUNITY INDEPENDENT SERVICES INC — $5,000 · HealthDISABILITY ACTION CENTER OF GEORGIA INC — $85,000 · ReligionDISABILIT…ALLIANCE FOR DISABLED IN ACTION INC — $27,500 · EducationGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationACCESS TO INDEPENDENCE OF CORTLAND COUNTY INC — $10,000 · EducationDISABILITY RIGHTS FLORIDA INC — $29,500 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERS — $10,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $10,000 · Civil RightsTHAT UPPITY THEATRE COMPANY — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $11,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$496,000Human Services$250,500Health$95,000Religion$85,000Education$57,500Civil Rights$49,500Arts & Culture$26,000

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 budgetDISABILITY ACTION CENTER OF GEORGIA INC — $85,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNew Disabled South Inc — $52,500 over 3y, 29% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS FLORIDA INC — $29,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR DISABLED IN ACTION INC — $27,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCANDID — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION — $23,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSELF-ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION IN NEW YO STATE INC — $22,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetDISABILITY LAW CENTER INC — $19,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPARAQUAD INC — $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY RESOURCES INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON — $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE CIL — $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetResources for Independence Central Valley — $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Arc of Illinois — $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetStavros Center for Independent Living Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING INDEPENDENTLY IS FOR EVERYONE AT RCIL INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHAT UPPITY THEATRE COMPANY — $15,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANTHRACITE REGION CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT READY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetVOTERIDERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStatewide Independent Living Council — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLIBERTY RESOURCES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetACCESS TO INDEPENDENCE OF CORTLAND COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARC MASSACHUSETTS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ARC OF CONNECTICUT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIVING INDEPENDENCE NETWORK COPORATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID A WINSTON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPeople First Wisconsin Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR FAMILIES AN — $5,000 over 1y, 7.4% 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.

UsagingDC19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Usaging · Borealis Philanthropy · The Ford Foundation · Community Catalyst Inc · Community Service Society of New York · Proteus Fund Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Christopher Reeve Foundation · AARP · Tides Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 American Association of People With Disabilities funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 70%
  • Arc Massachusetts Inc100% of income from government
  • Collaborative Support Programs of Nj93% of income from government
  • Disability Rights Florida Inc79% of income from government
  • Connecticut State Independent Living Council Inc70% of income from government
  • Disability Law Center Inc57% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc6% of income from government
  • The Arc of Connecticut Inc3% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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.

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 83 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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