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Ann Peppers Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.4MEducation$2.2MHealth$1.7MHousing & Shelter$730kYouth Development$583kHuman Services$475kPhilanthropy$335kEnvironment$211kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$150,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD PASADENA AND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY$50,000
PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC (PCM)$40,000
PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATER OF CALIFORNIA INC$35,000
DOOR OF HOPE$30,000
FAMILY HOPE (DBA ELIZABETH HOUSE)$30,000
INNER-CITY ARTS$30,000
UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES$30,000
PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$30,000
LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION$30,000
CASA DE LAS AMIGAS DBA CASA TREATMENT CENTER$30,000
MOUNT WILSON INSTITUTE$30,000
FOOTHILL UNITY CENTER$30,000
GET LIT WORDS IGNITE$30,000
THE GOODEN CENTER$30,000
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 (FY19–24, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOOTHILL FAMILY: $15k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $100k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $30k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $30k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $30k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $25k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $25k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $25k → 14%URBAN VOICES PROJECT: $15k → 14%URBAN VOICES PROJECT: $15k → 14%URBAN VOICES PROJECT: $10k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 14%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 62 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
15

Total granted

$8.5M
$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+27%

Still filing today

81%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • DO
    DOOR OF HOPE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $305k · revenue +235%
  • Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $290k · revenue +103%
  • VE
    VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $265k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAINT JUSTIN EDUCATION FUND FOR LOS ANGELESASCENDING LIGHTS
    one grant, 2021 · $54k
  • EC
    ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF PASADENA AREA CONGREGATIONS DBA FRIENDS IN DEED
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • WS
    WESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +13%
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
3
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
4
Maranatha High School

Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…

Education
5
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
6
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
7
Polytechnic School

The mission of polytechnic school is to develop the unique intellect, talents, and character of each student in a community dedicated to academic excellence, personal responsibility, and service to others. the school envisions a community…

Education
8
Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc

Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…

Education
9
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
10
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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12
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy; the most unlike its peers is Family Hope dba Elizabeth House. 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

64 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. 64 of the 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
58/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOOR OF HOPE: $305,000 · OtherDOOR OF HOPECANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY: $250,000 · OtherCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SAN …THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ART COLLECTIONS AND BOTANICAL GARDENS: $155,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley: $155,000 · OtherSOUTH PASADENA SAN MARINO YMCA: $153,000 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOME: $140,000 · OtherFAMILIES FORWARD (FORMERLY MOTHERS' CLUB): $140,000 · OtherNEW VILLAGE GIRLS ACADEMY NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $130,000 · OtherUSC PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM: $120,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $100,000 · OtherARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY: $125,750 · OtherFAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSE: $160,000 · OtherFAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSEJERICHO ROAD PASADENA INC: $120,000 · Other+22 more: $906,000 · Other+22 moreTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE ST…ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $230,000 · Arts & CultureARMORY CENTER FOR THE ART…Pasadena Conservatory of Music: $184,000 · Arts & CulturePasadena Conservatory of …THE PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $180,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PASADENA SYMPHONY ASS…INNER-CITY ARTS: $175,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTSLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $174,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORAL…LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $174,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CH…A Noise Within: $174,000 · Arts & CultureA Noise WithinMuseIque: $134,000 · Arts & CultureMuseIqueKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSALASTINA: $80,000 · Arts & CultureGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $90,000 · Arts & CulturePasadena City College Foundation: $473,000 · EducationPasadena City College F…VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $265,000 · EducationVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICE…POMONA COLLEGE: $170,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGECOLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $170,000 · EducationCOLLEGE ACCESS PLANOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $170,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGEMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY: $155,000 · EducationMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF…THE FUND FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS: $130,000 · EducationTHE FUND FOR PARTNERSHI…READING PARTNERS: $105,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERSLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · Education+5 more: $116,500 · Education+5 morePlanned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc: $290,000 · HealthPlanned Pare…CASA TREATMENT CENTER: $165,000 · HealthCASA TREATME…YOUNG & HEALTHY: $160,000 · HealthYOUNG & HEAL…CONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY: $145,000 · HealthCONVALESCENT…PARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN …THE GOODEN CENTER: $80,000 · HealthTHE GOODEN C…+3 more: $16,500 · HealthPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $181,500 · PhilanthropyFlintridge Center: $140,000 · PhilanthropyPasadena Community Foundation: $85,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $265,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services: $75,000 · Human ServicesURBAN VOICES PROJECT: $40,000 · Human ServicesFoothill Family Service: $15,000 · Human ServicesPASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesPasadena Child Development Associates Inc doing business as PCDA: $220,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA: $110,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,959,750Arts & Culture$2,020,000Education$1,834,500Health$981,500Philanthropy$456,500Human Services$410,000Youth Development$330,750

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 budgetPasadena City College Foundation: $473,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $305,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc: $290,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $265,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $265,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY: $250,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $250,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $230,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetPasadena Child Development Associates Inc doing business as PCDA: $220,750 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetPasadena Conservatory of Music: $184,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $181,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $180,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $175,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $174,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $174,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetA Noise Within: $174,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $170,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $170,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $170,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA TREATMENT CENTER: $165,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetYOUNG & HEALTHY: $160,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSE: $160,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY: $155,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley: $155,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY: $145,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetFlintridge Center: $140,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $140,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMuseIque: $134,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS: $130,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY: $125,750 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJERICHO ROAD PASADENA INC: $120,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA: $110,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM: $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $85,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTHILL UNITY CENTER INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GOODEN CENTER: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSALASTINA: $80,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 Pasadena City College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc ↗
  • Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Pasadena Child Development Associates Inc doing business as PCDA ↗
  • Who funds Pasadena Conservatory of Music ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
  • Who funds A Noise Within ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN ↗
  • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CASA TREATMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG & HEALTHY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley ↗
  • Who funds CONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Flintridge Center ↗
  • Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
  • Who funds MuseIque ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JERICHO ROAD PASADENA INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds KIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM ↗

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.

Pasadena Community FoundationCA79.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Weingart Foundation · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation · Helen and Will Webster Foundation · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
    0get 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Ann Peppers 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 83 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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