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American Camping Association Inc

The american camping association's (aca) purpose is to further children, youth, and adult welfare and education through the camp experience and to ensure the quality of camp and youth development programs by providing leading practices and standards.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2021–2025.

Youth Development$965kRecreation & Sports$271kHuman Services$270kHealth$192kEnvironment$190kEducation$126kPublic Benefit$115kScience & Tech$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 32 grants below total $960,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,695,280 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,735,280 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $677k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $271k
$25,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco$93,000
Guided Discoveries$62,500
Fiver Children's Foundation$62,500
Mt Tremper Outdoor Ministries$52,500
Butler University$40,500
Acta Non Verba$40,500
Piers Park Sailing Center$40,500
Princeton Blairstown Center$40,000
Maven Youth$35,500
Girl Scouts - Greater Atlanta$25,500
YWCA Vermont Camp Hochelaga$25,500
Barbara C Harris Center$25,500
Camp Hazen YMCA$25,500
Camp Fire Alaska Council$25,500
Fresh Air Fund$25,500
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, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%The HEART Center: $26k → 11%East Side Neighborhood ServiceCamp Bovey: $16k → 11%Frost Valley YMCA: $13k → 16%Tampa Metro YMCA: $19k → 13%Camp Hazen YMCA: $26k → 7%YMCA of Greater Seattle: $25k → 9%YWCA Vermont Camp Hochelaga: $26k → 10%The HEART Center: $8k → 11%East Side Neighborhood ServiceCamp Bovey: $16k → 11%Frost Valley YMCA: $13k → 16%Tampa Metro YMCA: $17k → 13%Camp Hazen YMCA: $8k → 7%YMCA of Greater Seattle: $25k → 9%YWCA Vermont Camp Hochelaga: $8k → 10%East Side Neighborhood ServiceCamp Bovey: $12k → 11%Tampa Metro YMCA: $8k → 13%YMCA of Greater Seattle: $8k → 9%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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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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 44 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
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Total granted

$2.1M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentEducationHealthOther

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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO
    4× · 2021–2025 · $175k · revenue +23%
  • AN
    ACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $97k · revenue +47%
  • CF
    CAMP FIRE ALASKA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • JC
    Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%

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.

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Camp Fire Inland Southern California

To connect young people to the outdoors, to others and to themselves.

Youth Development
2
Camp Fire Central Texas

Camp Fire Central Texas builds caring, confident youth and future leaders through hands-on science, outdoor experiences, and service to the community.

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3
Camp Fire Minnesota

With nature as our catalyst, we energize youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.

Youth Development
4
University Camps

Unicamp student volunteers harness the healing power of the wilderness to provide a unique outdoor camping experience for at-risk children. through relationship-building, leadership and character development, and just plain fun, unicamp…

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5
Kimball Camp Outdoor Center

Kimball Camp offers a safe and enriching environment for all ages by fostering a connection with faith, community, self and nature.

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6
Adventure West Council Boy Scouts of America

The mission of the adventure west council, boy scouts of america, is to instill honor, integrity, and leadership in youth by engaging youth and families through fun, quality programs, outdoor experiences, and service to community.

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7
Summit Area Young Men's Christian Association a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of the summit area ymca is to strengthen the foundations of community by nurturing and developing the potential of every child, promoting healthy living and fostering a sense of social responsibility in the community.

Human Services
8
Woodcraft Rangers

The goals of woodcraft's nvision after school program are to decrease risk factors impinging on children and youth and to increase their chances for success in school and in life through youth development programs for low income and/or…

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9
Camps in Common

To promote and celebrate connections between nature, family, and community, by creating unique opportunities that advance cultural diversity, environmental appreciation, and youth empowerment.

Human Services
10
Ymca of Montclair New Jersey

The YMCA of Montclair welcomes all. We are a nonprofit that strengthens individuals, families, and community by developing spirit, mind, and body. Membership is open to all, with financial assistance available to those who live in our…

Human Services
11
Boy Scouts of America Ventura County Council

The mission of the ventura county council, boy scouts of america, is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. the ventura county council…

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Tahoe Expedition Academy Inc

To combine academic excellence, character building, and realworld adventures to develop courageous scholars and citizens who thrive in dynamic and challenging environments with the compassion, experience and drive to make the world a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Mt Tremper Outdoor Ministries Inc. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Sports ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Development CentersEquine Therapy ProgramsYouth Development ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsLocal Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsChristian Youth CampsEnvironmental Conservation …Ymca Youth Development
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 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%47%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,515

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

43 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. 43 of the 50 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
16/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $175,200 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCOACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $97,000 · Youth DevelopmentACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECTCAMP FIRE ALASKA — $77,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE ALASKAFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCTRAILBLAZER CAMPS INC — $69,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRAILBLAZER CAMPS INCGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc — $57,500 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of Greater NY IncMaven Youth — $43,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC — $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Common Ground — $35,124 · Youth DevelopmentB'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION — $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp for All Kids — $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentBARBARA C HARRIS CENTER — $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc — $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentMT TREMPER OUTDOOR MINISTRIES INC — $65,000 · OtherMT TREMPER OUTDOOR MIN…EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN HAWAII — $57,500 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH IN HA…CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $44,000 · OtherCARY MEMORIAL LIBRARYYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEY — $44,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN …MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND — $37,500 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY MARY…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $37,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM I…THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA — $33,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONT…COOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF N Y — $31,930 · OtherCOOPERATIVE EXTENSION …CAMP FIRE ANGELES — $25,000 · OtherCAMP FIRE ANGELESNEVER A LOSS OF VISION — $15,000 · OtherPISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $37,500 · OtherPISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RE…+1 more — $5,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $57,500 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN…TAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $44,000 · Human ServicesTAMPA METROPO…EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $44,000 · Human ServicesEAST SIDE NEI…CAMP HAZEN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $33,000 · Human ServicesCAMP HAZEN YO…The HEART Center — $33,000 · Human ServicesThe HEART Cen…YWCA OF VERMONT INC — $33,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF VERMO…FROST VALLEY YMCA — $25,000 · Human ServicesFROST VALLEY …GUIDED DISCOVERIES INC — $75,000 · EnvironmentGUIDED DI…NATUREBRIDGE — $44,000 · EnvironmentNATUREBRI…Big Sur Land Trust — $37,500 · EnvironmentBig Sur L…WA-YA OUTDOOR INSTITUTE — $33,000 · EnvironmentWA-YA OUT…Piers Park Sailing Center Inc — $53,000 · Recreation & SportsPiers Par…CAMP BLODGETT — $44,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP BLOD…FRESH AIR FUND — $33,000 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR…HANDS IN 4 YOUTH INC (NY) — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsHANDS IN …HAPPINESS IS CAMPING — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsHAPPINESS…+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsEASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $77,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS COLORADO — $44,000 · HealthNO LIMITS FOUNDATION D/B/A CAMP NO LIMITS — $33,000 · HealthButler University — $53,000 · EducationPrinceton-Blairstown Center Inc — $40,000 · EducationLIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP — $33,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE EDU-NATION — $20,000 · Education
Youth Development$831,324Other$432,930Human Services$269,500Environment$189,500Recreation & Sports$175,000Health$154,000Education$146,000

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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $175,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $97,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCAMP FIRE ALASKA — $77,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $77,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGUIDED DISCOVERIES INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRAILBLAZER CAMPS INC — $69,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMT TREMPER OUTDOOR MINISTRIES INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $57,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc — $57,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetButler University — $53,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPiers Park Sailing Center Inc — $53,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $44,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE — $44,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEY — $44,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $44,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEASTER SEALS COLORADO — $44,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP BLODGETT — $44,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMaven Youth — $43,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetPrinceton-Blairstown Center Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust — $37,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC — $37,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $37,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCamp Common Ground — $35,124 over 3y, 18% of budgetWA-YA OUTDOOR INSTITUTE — $33,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP — $33,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetB'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION — $33,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCamp for All Kids — $33,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $33,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HAZEN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $33,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $33,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNO LIMITS FOUNDATION D/B/A CAMP NO LIMITS — $33,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBARBARA C HARRIS CENTER — $33,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc — $33,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe HEART Center — $33,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYWCA OF VERMONT INC — $33,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFROST VALLEY YMCA — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS IN 4 YOUTH INC (NY) — $25,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCOLLEGIATE EDU-NATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAPPINESS IS CAMPING — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Summer Camp Opportuni…National Council of Y…The Hyde and Watson F…Mightycause Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…Baird Foundation IncThe Blackbaud Giving …Edward Jones Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Enterprise Holdings F…Renaissance Charitabl…
Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Inc · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation 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 American Camping Association 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Piers Park Sailing Center Inc — 8% of income from government
  • B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
  • Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Ywca of Vermont Inc — 0% 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)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 50 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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