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Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
155
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$20MEnvironment$4.3MAnimals$2.5MEducation$1.6MInternational$1.2MHealth$1.0MCivil Rights$370kScience & Tech$355kOther$0
02FY2024 · 155 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k93 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.3M
$15,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO$100,000
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$62,500
REDF$55,000
WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE$50,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC$50,000
TESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC$50,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED$50,000
EARTHJUSTICE$50,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$50,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY INC$50,000
WILDERNESS SOCIETY$50,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$50,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS USA INC$50,000
AS YOU SOW$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $25k → 13%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1k → 11%CLASSICAL TAHOE: $10k → 10%INSIDE-OUTSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $25k → 13%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1k → 11%INSIDE-OUTSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $25k → 13%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1k → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1k → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1k → 11%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $8k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $25k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $25k → 17%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%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

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NH
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IN
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CA
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VA
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NC
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HI
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TX
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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 145 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

145 repeat relationships: 116 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

145
245

Total granted

$28M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+34%

Still filing today

94%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k 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
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalHealthOther
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

  • AS
    AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE D/B/A LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3.5M · revenue +70% · 31% of their budget
  • OA
    OPERA AMERICA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2.3M · revenue +47%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue +4%
  • SF
    San Francisco Performances Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $85k · revenue +18%
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +51%
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
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
2
New Century Chamber Orchestra

New century chamber orchestra, a virtuoso, conductorless string ensemble founded in 1992, presents performances of extraordinary quality in the san francisco bay area with a commitment to innovation, education, and accessibility.

Arts & Culture
3
Foundation for Modern Opera
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4
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
5
California Music Center

To seek and nurture exceptional young string musicians, foster and further their performance and professional skills development, and provide them with performance opportunities and monetary support.

Arts & Culture
6
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra

To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…

Arts & Culture
7
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…

Arts & Culture
8
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc

The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…

Arts & Culture
9
Midsummer Mozart Festival

The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…

Arts & Culture
10
Vanguard Concerts
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11
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
12
Socal Symphony Society

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra strives to enlighten and inspire the diverse citizenry of Culver City and the Los Angeles area through the presentation of orchestral music concerts, to present works of American composers, and to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Aids Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

405 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. 405 of the 421 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)
104
Early backer (in before they grew)
401/405
Grantees still filing
310/405
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE D/B/A LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS: $3,550,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE D/…OPERA AMERICA INC: $2,341,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA AMERICA INCSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONYTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,195,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK…+43 more: $1,436,500 · Arts & Culture+43 moreThe Crowden Music Center: $5,035,000 · OtherThe Crowden Music Center+64 more: $4,373,000 · Other+64 moreSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $3,250,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO CON…University of San Francisco: $500,000 · EducationUniversity of San…THE MALALA FUND: $250,000 · Education+18 more: $942,000 · Education+18 moreWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $632,500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILD…EARTHJUSTICE: $307,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTI…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $255,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMEN…THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $255,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDER…OCEAN CONSERVANCY: $255,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONS…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $255,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RE…OCEANA INC: $122,500 · EnvironmentREDFORD CENTER INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentPesticide Action Network North America: $100,000 · Environment350ORG: $100,000 · Environment+12 more: $542,500 · Environment+12 moreDefenders of Wildlife: $297,500 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $237,500 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $190,000 · AnimalsSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $177,500 · AnimalsREVIVE & RESTORE: $167,500 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $140,000 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $140,000 · AnimalsPENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA: $140,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society: $100,000 · AnimalsGREATER FARALLONES ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · AnimalsMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $87,500 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $87,500 · AnimalsSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $80,000 · Animals+4 more: $215,000 · AnimalsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $287,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $255,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $107,500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $87,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $87,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $87,000 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $75,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $66,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · International+6 more: $140,000 · InternationalELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · HealthStrategic Aid Partners Inc: $145,000 · HealthSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $141,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $120,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $75,000 · HealthRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $50,000 · HealthELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $50,000 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE INC: $45,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Health+3 more: $65,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$10,522,500Other$9,408,000Education$4,942,000Environment$2,925,000Animals$2,160,000International$1,242,000Health$956,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Crowden Music Center: $5,035,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetAMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE D/B/A LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS: $3,550,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $3,250,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC: $2,341,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $2,000,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,195,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $632,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $307,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $297,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $287,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAS YOU SOW: $275,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $255,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $255,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $255,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $255,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $255,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $250,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $250,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetREDF: $240,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $237,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $237,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $190,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $177,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetREVIVE & RESTORE: $167,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC: $150,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetStrategic Aid Partners Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $141,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $140,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA: $140,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE: $140,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $130,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $126,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $122,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $122,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $120,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $107,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPesticide Action Network North America: $100,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER FARALLONES ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 2y, 2.3% 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.

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.

The Aaron Copland Fun…The Amphion Foundatio…The Bernard Osher Fou…New Music USA IncThe William & Flora H…Colburn FoundationJewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…The Meredith and Rose…Marin Community Found…Ross McKee Foundation…Mid Atlantic Arts Inc
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPNY79.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Bernard Osher Foundation · New Music USA Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Colburn Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) · Marin Community Foundation · Ross McKee Foundation for the Musical Arts · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc

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 Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Transition House Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • From the Top Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ann & Gordon Getty 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 421 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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