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Andersons Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$496k
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$457kEducation$428kPhilanthropy$309kHealth$282kArts & Culture$242kReligion$224kFood & Nutrition$164kHousing & Shelter$146kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k46 grants · $147k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $174k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA - Greater Toledo$75,000
Central Catholic High School$50,000
Mom's House$50,000
The Blackbaud Giving Fund$34,100
Emergency Assistance Foundation$25,000
Toledo School for the Arts$25,000
The Blackbaud Giving Fund$22,469
YMCA - Greater Toledo$15,000
TutorSmart$12,500
4-H Randolph County$10,000
Central City Ministries of Toledo (CCMT)$10,000
Seneca County Agricultural Society$10,000
Aurora House-Aurora Project Inc$10,000
Partners in Education$7,420
Toledo Lake Erie & Western Railway & Museum Inc$5,140
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $244k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Houston Area Women's Center: $8k → 16%Emergency Assistance Foundation: $25k → 11%Critter Barn: $10k → 8%So All May Eat Inc: $15k → 12%Critter Barn: $10k → 8%Seneca County Agricultural Society: $10k → 12%Mom's House: $50k → 18%Mom's House: $25k → 18%Mom's House: $3k → 18%Adopt America Network: $3k → 18%Adopt America Network: $3k → 18%Adopt America Network: $3k → 18%Adopt America Network: $2k → 18%Adopt America Network: $2k → 18%Water for Ishmael: $3k → 18%Lott Industries: $3k → 18%Lott Industries: $3k → 18%Lott Industries: $3k → 18%Lott Industries: $2k → 18%Lott Industries: $2k → 18%Sunshine Foundation Inc: $13k → 18%Sunshine Foundation Inc: $13k → 18%Sunshine Foundation Inc: $5k → 18%Sunshine Foundation Inc: $5k → 18%Sunshine Foundation Inc: $5k → 18%Sunshine Foundation Inc: $3k → 18%Sunshine Foundation Inc: $3k → 18%Food For Thought Toledo Inc: $4k → 18%Toledo Day Nursery: $4k → 18%Toledo Day Nursery: $3k → 18%Toledo Day Nursery: $3k → 18%Toledo Day Nursery: $3k → 18%Toledo Day Nursery: $2k → 18%Toledo Day Nursery: $2k → 18%Old Newsboys Goodfellow Association: $1k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CO
WV
VA
NC
SC
DC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 26% of Andersons Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 64%.

Andersons Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 51 repeat orgs$691k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
56

Total granted

$1.7M
$623k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+8%

Still filing today

57%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsHealthEducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MH
    MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO
    3× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue ×15
  • TO
    TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +11%
  • BI
    BITTERSWEET INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • NM
    National Museum of the Great Lakes
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • MS
    Monroe Street United Methodist Church
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -27%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank

To enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.

Food & Nutrition
2
Toledo GROWs Inc

Toledo GROWs nurtures the joy of growing. Toledo GROWs educates the community about the value of local nutritious food. Our active urban farm and support for community gardens promote healthy eating and creates a region alive with gardens.

Environment
3
Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce

To solve critical business challenges in order to create vibrant economic opportunities for all in our region.

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4
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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5
Ohio District 5 Area Agency On Aging Inc

The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…

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6
The Ability Center of Greater Toledo

To assist people with disabilities to live, work and socialize within a fully accessible community.

Human Services
7
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
8
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
9
The Toledo Legal Aid Society

Toledo Legal Aid Society provides legal representation for indigent clients that are charged with criminal, traffic, or juvenile offenses for which the penalty or any possible adjudication includes the potential loss of liberty.

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10
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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11
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
12
Ashland Assisted Living Inc

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stratford Ecological Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 118 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
42/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA - Greater Toledo: $350,000 · OtherYMCA - Greater ToledoDiocese of Toledo: $150,000 · OtherDiocese of ToledoCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $97,500 · OtherTOLEDO EARLY LEARNING COALITION INCORPORATED: $84,430 · OtherNational Museum of the Great Lakes: $75,000 · OtherCatholic Diocese of Toledo - Catholic Charities: $66,115 · OtherQueen of Apostles School: $65,000 · OtherTOLEDO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $65,000 · Other+76 more: $883,304 · Other+76 moreTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $222,469 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAU…UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $35,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTOLEDO COMMU…SANDUSKY COUNTY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO: $77,500 · Human ServicesMOM'S HOUS…SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE F…EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY …CRITTER BARN: $20,000 · Human ServicesCRITTER BA…SO ALL MAY EAT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSO ALL MAY…TOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $14,000 · Human ServicesTOLEDO DAY…LOTT INDUSTRIES INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesADOPT AMERICA NETWORK: $10,500 · Human ServicesSENECA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC AGRICULTURAL: $10,000 · Human ServicesHouston Area Women's Center: $8,300 · Human Services+3 more: $7,700 · Human ServicesTUTORSMART: $49,800 · EducationPARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO: $24,340 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $20,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF SAX-ZIM BOG: $8,300 · EducationCHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterAURORA PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFOSTORIA VISION 2020 INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC: $27,500 · Food & NutritionEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK: $15,000 · Food & NutritionMOBILE MEALS OF TOLEDO INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCALHOUN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Food & NutritionGROW OHIO VALLEY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionHILLSDALE COUNTY AG: $2,500 · Food & NutritionTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureUNRULY ARTS: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM: $5,140 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,836,349Philanthropy$302,469Human Services$243,500Education$102,440Housing & Shelter$80,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Arts & Culture$62,640

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $222,469 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTOLEDO EARLY LEARNING COALITION INCORPORATED: $84,430 over 2y, 14% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO: $77,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES: $60,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetTUTORSMART: $49,800 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $46,790 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetL&A Park Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetBITTERSWEET INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHENRY COUNTY AG IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $26,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERRYSBURG HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO: $24,340 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCRITTER BARN: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $16,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSO ALL MAY EAT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSANDUSKY COUNTY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF TOLEDO INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LIFE: $14,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $14,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDARKE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $12,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY CARENET INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOTT INDUSTRIES INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetADOPT AMERICA NETWORK: $10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAUDER VILLAGE: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENECA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC AGRICULTURAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOSTORIA VISION 2020 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetARTS PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCALHOUN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $8,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $8,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAX-ZIM BOG: $8,300 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNRULY ARTS: $7,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO EARLY LEARNING COALITION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO ↗
  • Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TUTORSMART ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds L&A Park Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BITTERSWEET INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
  • Who funds HENRY COUNTY AG IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PERRYSBURG HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO ↗
  • Who funds CRITTER BARN ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds SO ALL MAY EAT INC ↗
  • Who funds SANDUSKY COUNTY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK ↗

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.

Toledo Community Foun…The O-I Charities Fou…United Way of Greater…The Stranahan Support…Robert C and Susan M …John Henry Eldred Jr …Toledo Community Foun…The Andersons Fund Su…Promedica Health Syst…Bon Secours Mercy Hea…Walter E Terhune Memo…The Oswald Supporting…
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH79.9× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · United Way of Greater Toledo · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Promedica Health System Inc · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · The Oswald Supporting Organization

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Andersons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andersons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    25report 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
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Andersons Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Andersons Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 118 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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