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American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees

The american federation of state, county and municipal employees (afscme)is an international labor organization representing workers in the public service and health care sectors.

$13M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
135
Grants FY2024
84
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,000,000
Organizations funded a year
73 to 97
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
24
Total assets, FY2024
$394M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $683k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving130$14M55%
FY202384$6.9M30%
FY202297$10M39%
FY202179$6.6M33%
FY202073$8.2M26%
FY201983$7.8M35%
FY201879$11M42%
FY201780$6.4Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$20MCommunity Improvement$19MCivil Rights$12MEmployment$8.1MHuman Services$3.7MMembership Benefit$3.0MEnvironment$895kEducation$864kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
For Our Future Action Fund$16,800,000726%
Working America$4,445,90067%
Strategic Victory Fund$3,500,00062%
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations$2,955,40061%
America Votes$2,396,9997n/a
Progress Now Inc$2,200,000720%
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Inc$1,330,000813%
Democracy Alliance$1,242,3488n/a
National Public Pension Coalition$1,130,000820%
Center for American Progress$1,075,00081%
Show all 309 grantees
All grantees of American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
For Our Future Action Fund$16,800,000726%
Working America$4,445,90067%
Strategic Victory Fund$3,500,00062%
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations$2,955,40061%
America Votes$2,396,9997n/a
Progress Now Inc$2,200,000720%
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Inc$1,330,000813%
Democracy Alliance$1,242,3488n/a
National Public Pension Coalition$1,130,000820%
Center for American Progress$1,075,00081%
America Votes$900,00011%
A Better Wisconsin Together Inc$900,00026%
Bbt Inc$850,00034%
Citizens for Tax Justice$800,000898%
Progressive Caucus Action Fund$750,000618%
Powerswitch Action$750,00073%
Epi Action$750,000598%
State Innovation Exchange$625,00072%
United Home Care Workers of PA LLC$620,8343n/a
Schools and Communities First$562,50021%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People$550,5004n/a
Jobs with Justice Education Fund$550,00072%
Development Now for Chicago$550,00011%
National Action Network Inc$545,00082%
America Works USA$500,0001n/a
The Film Foundation Inc$500,000125%
State Leadership Project$500,00017%
State Victory Fund LLC$500,0001n/a
Economic Policy Institute$500,00031%
The Good Land Committee Inc$500,0001n/a
Floridians for Tax Fairness$450,000126%
AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer$413,6701n/a
Ohio Progressive Collaborative$408,750418%
New Yorkers Against Corruption$400,0001n/a
Repairers of the Breach$400,00044%
Good Jobs First$370,00089%
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc$365,00083%
Organizing Empowerment Project Inc$350,00022%
Fair Elections Center$335,00083%
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc$301,00081%
Six Action$300,000521%
No on Prop 5 Sponsored by Educators Public Safet$300,0001n/a
Campaign for Accountability Inc$290,00049%
Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference Inc$290,000424%
Catalist$286,2003n/a
Fiscal Policy Institute Inc$280,00088%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People$280,00012%
Voto Latino Inc$275,00022%
Project Keystone$275,00025%
Adrc Action$260,00024%
Defend Our Constitution$250,0001n/a
Citizens Not Politicians$250,00011%
Pa Alliance Action$250,00011%
One Apia Nevada$250,00016%
Opportunity for All Coalition$250,00011%
Make the Road Action Inc$235,00012%
Black Men Vote Civic Action Fund$225,00014%
Michigan State Afl-Cio$200,00023%
Committee on States$200,0007n/a
National Employment Law Project$200,00081%
Congressional Progressive Caucus Center$200,0002n/a
New Georgia Project Action Fund$200,00022%
Capital & Main$180,00062%
Western Organization of Resource Councils$175,00013%
Coalition on Human Needs$171,50084%
Progressnow Colorado$170,000411%
We the People of Florida$170,000269%
National Coalition on Black Civic Partic$165,00043%
Health Access of California$160,000151%
New Leaders Council$155,00044%
Unite Here Education and Support Fund$150,00023%
Urban Strategies Foundation$150,0001n/a
Black Ohio Leaders for Democracy$150,000150%
Congressional Black Caucus Political Edu Cation and Leadership Institute$145,00081%
Greater Wisconsin Committee Inc$130,0001n/a
National Women's Law Center$130,00080%
Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda$125,00023%
Texas Future Cooperative$125,0004n/a
The American Prospect Inc$116,50052%
New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness Inc$110,000440%
Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures$105,00080%
Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO$105,00029%
Innovation Ohio$101,000218%
National Redistricting Action Fund$100,00010%
Americans Against Double Taxation Inc$100,0001n/a
Pontiac Policy Action Fund$100,0001n/a
Afscme Fallen Heroes Fund$100,000131%
Rural Arizona Action$100,00012%
Stop Sinclair LLC$100,0001n/a
Badger State Research$100,0002n/a
Ohio Alliance for Community Education$100,0001n/a
The Ohio Organizing Campaign$100,00011%
Fair Government Nevada$100,00011%
New Direction NJ$100,0001n/a
Wild Montana Action Fund$100,000117%
Morehouse College$100,00010%
Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom$100,00011%
National Democratic Redistricting Committee$100,0001n/a
Hope Global Outreach Foundation$100,0001n/a
Northwest Accountability Project$97,500316%
National Institute on Retirement Security$94,60073%
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc$90,00041%
Peggy Browning Fund$90,00083%
Committee for Education Funding$86,50083%
Texas Afl-Cio$85,5002n/a
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance AFL -Cio$85,00069%
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc$85,00030%
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement$84,00082%
Alliance for Retired Americans$83,95530%
Pride at Work Afl-Cio$80,00087%
National Women's Law Center Action Fund$80,000511%
Coloradans for Accessible and Secure Elections$80,000111%
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists$80,00074%
American Constitution Society for Law & Policy$80,00080%
Yes on 5 Californians For Safe Affordable Communitites$75,00011%
Advanced Legislative Leadership Services$75,0003n/a
Texas Future Project$75,0003n/a
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc$69,50070%
NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc$68,75030%
Living United for Change in Arizona$65,00012%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy$65,00021%
Alliance for Justice$65,00050%
Californians for Safe Reliable Infrastructure$62,5001n/a
A Philip Randolph Educational Fund$60,000612%
Christopher P Gardner Foundati$60,00037%
Arizona Wins$60,0001n/a
Coalition of Labor Union Women Center for Education and Research$60,0006n/a
The Roosevelt Institute$60,00060%
Americans for Financial Reform$60,00061%
New Jersey State Afl-Cio$55,00013%
Badger State Research Inc$55,0001n/a
AZ State American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization$54,0001n/a
Mi Familia Vota$50,00011%
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action$50,00015%
Coppersmith Brockelman PLC$50,0001n/a
Black Male Initiative Georgia Inc$50,000110%
Unite the Country$50,0001n/a
Center for American Progress Action Fund$50,00011%
Strong Denver$50,0001n/a
Chicago Teachers Union$50,00010%
Fuse Washington$50,00012%
Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc$50,00012%
Alliance for Youth Action$50,00011%
Penny for Progress$50,0001n/a
Committee on States$50,00011%
Center For Racial and Gender E NFP$50,00014%
Kansas Values Institute$50,00021%
Colorado Coming Together$50,00011%
Citizen Action of Wisconsin$50,0001n/a
Alliance for a Better Iowa$50,00027%
Colorofchangeorg$50,00012%
Alliance for Youth Organizing$50,00020%
Gain Power$50,0002n/a
Creative Visions Inc$50,00019%
Colorado Afl-Cio$50,00014%
Nul Civic Engagement Fund$50,0001n/a
Reproductive Freedom for All$50,00010%
Progress Texas$50,000113%
Aapi Victory Power Fund$50,00012%
Voteriders$50,00011%
Dolores Huerta Action Fund$50,00015%
Aft Disaster Relief Fund$50,000193%
Instituto Power$50,00013%
Yes On National Popular Vote$50,00012%
Win Florida Inc$45,0001n/a
Rainbow Push Coalition$40,0004n/a
Rapid Resist Action$40,00022%
Texas Organizing Project$40,00021%
Workers Defense Action Fund$40,00025%
Pennsylvania 2024$40,0001n/a
Unite Here$39,3361n/a
Center for Economic and Policy Research$35,00013%
Texas Freedom Network$35,00022%
Californians for Retirement Security$35,000215%
Advancement Project Education Fund$35,00011%
The California Legislative Black Caucus Policy Institute$32,50031%
Policy Matters Ohio$31,00022%
American Civil Liberties Union Inc$30,00010%
Union Veterans Council$30,00037%
Emerge America$30,0001n/a
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Afl-Cio$26,00021%
Collective Future$25,0001n/a
Avanzamos Unidos$25,0001n/a
Investing in Arapahoe$25,000119%
Skinner Leadership Institute Inc$25,00013%
Marylanders for Question 1$25,0001n/a
We The People Pennsylvania Action$25,0001n/a
Instituto Lab$25,00012%
Keystone Research Center Inc$25,00012%
Heartland Research Inc$25,0001n/a
End Homelessness$25,0001n/a
Lead Ohio$25,000117%
Rebuilding Broken Places CDC$25,00015%
Montana Hospital Association$25,00010%
Fair Elections Legal Network LLC$25,0001n/a
Florida Alliance$25,0001n/a
American Federation of Labor Ohio Afl-Cio$25,00011%
BCTGM International Union$25,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$25,00010%
Penn State Health$25,00010%
Preserve Protect and Defend$25,00012%
New Hampshire Progress Alliance$25,00012%
Citizens for Jeffco's Future$25,0001n/a
National Women's Soccer League Players Association$25,00017%
Service Employees International Union Local No 73$25,00010%
League of Conservation Voters Inc$25,00010%
Clean Air Clean Energy Washington$25,0001n/a
Alliance for a Better California Sponsored by Working Families and Labor$25,000110%
Nevada Alliance$25,00010%
Equity PAC$25,0001n/a
North Star Policy Institute$25,000114%
Cornell University$24,00030%
The 19th News$22,50010%
Colorado Democracy Alliance$20,50023%
Clean Missouri$20,0001n/a
Public Citizen Inc$20,00020%
Allegheny for All Inaugural Committee$20,00018%
Montana State Afl-Cio$20,00012%
Votevets Action Fund Inc$20,00010%
Missouri Afl-Cio$20,00011%
New Mexico Inaugural$20,0001n/a
The American Federation of Labor$20,00011%
American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organizations Georgia S$20,00011%
MoveOnorg Civic Action$20,00020%
Data Squad$20,0001n/a
Asian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional$19,50030%
Corporation of Gonzaga University$18,00030%
Williams College$18,00030%
University of California Berkeley Foundation$18,00010%
University of Maryland Baltimore$18,0002n/a
University of California Santa Barbara$16,0002n/a
Georgetown University$15,12720%
Global Womens Innovation Network$15,00011%
Moore Miller Inaugural Committee Inc$15,0001n/a
Gain Power$15,0001n/a
Johnson House Historic Site$15,000113%
Opportunity City Political Action Committee$15,00012%
Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc$15,00011%
James R Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc$15,00011%
Ruth's List Florida Action$15,00013%
Spelman College$12,0001n/a
Regents of the University of California at Irvine$12,0001n/a
Lgbtq Victory Fund$12,0002n/a
University of Central Florida$10,2201n/a
Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Foundation$10,00011%
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah$10,0001n/a
United Way of Kentucky Inc$10,00013%
Union Community Fund$10,00016%
Daily News Charities Inc$10,0001n/a
Pflag$10,00010%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People$10,0001n/a
Reconnecting McDowell Inc$10,00011%
Protect Constitutional Abortion Rights$10,0001n/a
Institute for Asian Pacific American Leadership and Advancement$10,00012%
Some Inc$10,00010%
Bread for the City Inc$10,00010%
New American Leaders Inc$10,00010%
Catalyst California$10,00010%
Renew San Antonio$10,0001n/a
Coloradans for Prosperity$10,00010%
United Labor Agency of Nevada Inc$10,00011%
Center for Community Change Action$10,00010%
Ufcw Charity Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Virginia Senate Democratic Caucu$10,0001n/a
Community of Hope$10,00010%
Midwest Academy$10,0001n/a
Miriam's Kitchen$10,00010%
Democratic Party of New Mexico - State Account$10,0001n/a
New Left Accelerator$10,00010%
Move Texas Action Fund$10,00010%
Type Media Center Inc$10,0001n/a
Iona University$10,00010%
American Family Voices Inc$10,00011%
Citizen Education Fund Inc$10,0001n/a
Vital Enterprises$10,0001n/a
Mobile School Pantry Inc South Florida$10,0001n/a
Seiu Colorado State Council$10,00012%
A Philip Randolph Institute$10,00011%
Thurgood Marshall College Fund$8,31610%
Center for Community Change$7,50010%
Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation$7,50011%
United Farm Workers of America$7,00010%
Columbia University$7,0001n/a
Northern Virginia CLC AFL-CIO$7,00015%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$6,8551n/a
The Nevada Independent$6,5001n/a
States Newsroom$6,50010%
Rutgers University$6,3001n/a
Ursinus College$6,30010%
University of South Alabama$6,0001n/a
California Polytechnic State University Foundation$6,00010%
Regents Univ of California$6,0001n/a
Mount Saint Mary's University$6,00010%
Congressional Hispanic Caucus InstituteInc$6,0001n/a
California State University East Bay$6,0001n/a
San Antonio AFL-CIO Council$6,0001n/a
University of la Verne$6,00010%
Villanova University$6,00010%
Elizabethtown College$6,00010%
University of Baltimore$6,0001n/a
Regents of the University of Idaho$6,0001n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$6,0001n/a
American University$6,00010%
Hunter College of the City University of New York$6,0001n/a
University of Southern Mississippi$6,0001n/a
Pitzer College$6,00010%
University of Maryland College Park$5,9601n/a
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs Mercer County$5,500111%
Sit in Movement Inc$5,4001n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($832k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFor Our Future Action Fund: $16,800,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetWorking America: $4,445,900 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetStrategic Victory Fund: $3,500,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations: $2,955,400 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetProgress Now Inc: $2,200,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetBallot Initiative Strategy Center Inc: $1,330,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetNational Public Pension Coalition: $1,130,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetCenter for American Progress: $1,075,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAmerica Votes: $900,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetA Better Wisconsin Together Inc: $900,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBbt Inc: $850,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCitizens for Tax Justice: $800,000 over 8y, 98% of budgetProgressive Caucus Action Fund: $750,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetPowerswitch Action: $750,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetEpi Action: $750,000 over 5y, 98% of budgetState Innovation Exchange: $625,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSchools and Communities First: $562,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund: $550,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetDevelopment Now for Chicago: $550,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNational Action Network Inc: $545,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetThe Film Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetState Leadership Project: $500,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetEconomic Policy Institute: $500,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFloridians for Tax Fairness: $450,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative: $408,750 over 4y, 18% of budgetRepairers of the Breach: $400,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetGood Jobs First: $370,000 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetThe Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc: $365,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetOrganizing Empowerment Project Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFair Elections Center: $335,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetCongressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc: $301,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSix Action: $300,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetCampaign for Accountability Inc: $290,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetSamuel Dewitt Proctor Conference Inc: $290,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetFiscal Policy Institute Inc: $280,000 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People: $280,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVoto Latino Inc: $275,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetProject Keystone: $275,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetAdrc Action: $260,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCitizens Not Politicians: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPa Alliance Action: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOne Apia Nevada: $250,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetOpportunity for All Coalition: $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMake the Road Action Inc: $235,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBlack Men Vote Civic Action Fund: $225,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMichigan State Afl-Cio: $200,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNational Employment Law Project: $200,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNew Georgia Project Action Fund: $200,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

National Education Association of the United StatesDC90.4× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Education Association of the United States · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · America Votes · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · State Engagement Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · North Fund

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.

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About American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees

How much does American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees give?
American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees reported 135 grants totaling $13,156,993 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 73 and 97 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (28%), Community Improvement (27%), Civil Rights (17%).
Who are American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: For Our Future Action Fund ($17M), Working America ($4.4M), Strategic Victory Fund ($3.5M).
Does American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Education Association of the United States, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc.
Where is American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees based?
American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees is based in DC.

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 327 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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