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Anon Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
130
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MYouth Development$1.1MHuman Services$943kArts & Culture$831kPhilanthropy$818kHealth$730kRecreation & Sports$363kHousing & Shelter$289kOther$0
02FY2024 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k55 grants · $264k
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $480k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$125,000
CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$90,000
MAKE-A-WISH WISCONSIN$60,075
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION$55,000
ACTS HOUSING$50,000
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE$50,000
MILWAUKEE JR ADMIRALS$50,000
ALL-IN MILWAUKEE$47,500
MILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREP$40,000
MILWAUKEE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$40,000
DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY$40,000
HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$35,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE$35,000
MILWAUKEE WORLD FESTIVAL INC (SUMMERFEST)$30,000
ST MARCUS SCHOOL$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $687k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOMETOWN HEROES: $10k → 6%HOMETOWN HEROES: $10k → 6%HOMETOWN HEROES: $8k → 6%BALANCE INC: $8k → 6%HOMETOWN HEROES: $8k → 6%BALANCE INC: $8k → 6%SHARP LITERACY INC: $18k → 17%SHARP LITERACY: $15k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $15k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $15k → 17%HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $85k → 17%HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $85k → 17%HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $35k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSN: $20k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSN: $19k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSN: $18k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOC: $15k → 17%WHAT EVERETT TAKES FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $20k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $15k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $4k → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $3k → 17%MILWAUKEE DIAPER MISSION: $5k → 17%ADMIRALS POWER PLAY FOUNDATION: $28k → 17%SECURE FUTURES: $25k → 17%SECURE FUTURES: $22k → 17%SECURE FUTURES: $20k → 17%SECURE FUTURES: $15k → 17%THE ABILITY CENTER: $10k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $13k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $8k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $13k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $10k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $3k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $10k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $8k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN: $8k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN: $6k → 17%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 124 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

124 repeat relationships: 101 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
64

Total granted

$6.0M
$833k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+23%

Still filing today

65%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $205k · revenue +23%
  • ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +303%
  • MKE URBAN STABLES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $165k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF
    one grant, 2020 · $112k
  • HR
    HARRY & ROSE SAMSON JCC
    one grant, 2020 · $85k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $68k · revenue +29%
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
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
2
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
3
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.

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4
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
5
Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…

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6
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
7
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment
8
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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9
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce

Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.

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10
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
11
The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education
12
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Employ Milwaukee Inc; the most unlike its peers is Broads for a Cause. 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

132 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. 132 of the 217 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/132
Grantees still filing
86/132
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUB - READY CENTER POWERED BY THE MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS PROGRAM: $250,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB - READY CENTER POWERED BY THE MILWAUKEE ADMI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $185,000 · OtherOPERATION DREAM INC: $180,000 · OtherMKE URBAN STABLES INC: $165,000 · Other+120 more: $3,024,938 · Other+120 moreMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC: $160,000 · EducationMCPREPARATORY…ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $157,500 · EducationALL-IN MILWAU…THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $125,000 · EducationTHE MILWAUKEE…DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $90,000 · EducationDR HOWARD FUL…ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC: $75,000 · EducationST NORBERT CO…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $67,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $65,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSI…ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $65,000 · EducationST AUGUSTINE …+8 more: $82,250 · Education+8 moreTHE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $205,000 · Human ServicesTHE HARRY …SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $82,000 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTU…MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $71,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE …SHARP LITERACY INC: $62,500 · Human ServicesSHARP LITE…JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $38,500 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HO…HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesHEAR Wisconsin Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesADMIRALS POWER PLAY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human Services+9 more: $101,500 · Human Services+9 moreMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $210,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $152,500 · PhilanthropyBrewers Community Foundation Inc: $115,000 · PhilanthropySOJOURNER FOUNDATION: $62,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $150,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC: $38,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $37,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $32,000 · Arts & CultureBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $32,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC: $26,500 · Arts & CultureMARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE WORLD FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $16,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $161,075 · HealthKathy's House Inc: $60,000 · HealthPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $42,500 · HealthPROJECT RETURN INC: $30,500 · HealthABCD INC: $24,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · Health+8 more: $61,500 · HealthACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $170,000 · Housing & ShelterWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC: $34,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterRevitalize Milwaukee Inc: $16,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,054,938Education$887,250Human Services$683,000Philanthropy$564,500Arts & Culture$487,000Health$394,575Housing & Shelter$257,500

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $210,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $205,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION DREAM INC: $180,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $170,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMKE URBAN STABLES INC: $165,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $161,075 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC: $160,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $157,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $152,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE JR ADMIRALS INC: $132,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBrewers Community Foundation Inc: $115,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $105,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $97,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $82,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetST NORBERT COLLEGE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $72,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $71,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $67,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC: $62,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSOJOURNER FOUNDATION: $62,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPrevent Blindness Wisconsin: $61,700 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSEEDS OF HEALTH INC: $60,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKathy's House Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGRAND AVENUE CLUB INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEENS GROW GREENS INC: $48,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $42,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION: $41,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $38,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC: $38,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMETOWN HEROES INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC: $34,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT RETURN INC: $30,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $28,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetADMIRALS POWER PLAY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetMILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC: $26,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Green Bay Packers Fou…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Milwaukee Jewish Fede…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Youth Foundation IncGardner FoundationWaukesha County Commu…Harri Hoffmann Family…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI135.2× affinity79 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation 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 Anon Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anon Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    47report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Anon Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Anon Charitable Trust 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 217 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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