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Black Hills Area Community Foundation

Educational, scientific, literary and charitable support in broad areas including development of both quality and quantity of economic growth in the rapid city and black hills area

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
102
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$771k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of BLACK HILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 102 grants below total $3,901,071 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,349,072 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $448,001 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $166k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $771k
$19,237
Median grant
11
States reached
$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONEHEART$771,369
WORLD VISION INC$150,000
NAU FOUNDATION$148,205
RE-MEMBER$129,860
RAPID CITY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$126,300
CHILDRENS HOME FOUNDATION$109,212
YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$109,158
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE BLACK HI$106,000
RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOLS$83,967
ST OLAF COLLEGE$76,718
WAMBLI SKA SOCIETY$75,606
SEQUEL INC$75,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$68,244
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA$64,000
SD ASSOC FOR EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHI$63,613
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $20k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%ABBOTT HOUSE: $21k → 14%WINGS AS EAGLES MINISTRIES: $8k → 14%RE-MEMBER: $130k → 42%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%ABBOTT HOUSE: $10k → 14%NORTHERN HILLS ALLIANCE OF CHILDREN: $8k → 11%ABBOTT HOUSE: $7k → 14%ABBOTT HOUSE: $7k → 14%OPERATION BLACK HILLS CABIN: $6k → 9%WEST RIVER TRANSIT AUTORITY: $7k → 11%WELLFULLY: $51k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SD: $20k → 9%WELLFULLY: $48k → 14%WELLFULLY: $14k → 14%WELLFULLY: $11k → 14%CANYON LAKE ACTIVITY CENTER: $10k → 14%WELLFULLY: $10k → 14%WELLFULLY: $8k → 14%SEQUEL INC: $230k → 14%SEQUEL INC: $75k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $63k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $32k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $29k → 14%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $25k → 14%BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $18k → 14%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $17k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $17k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $16k → 14%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $12k → 14%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $10k → 14%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $9k → 14%SACRED PURPOSES INC: $7k → 14%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $6k → 14%YMCA OF RAPID CITY: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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MD
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DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 102 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

102 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
60

Total granted

$22M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+16%

Still filing today

73%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $843k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +96%
  • RA
    RURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +51%
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Clubs of the Black Hills
    8× · 2017–2024 · $930k · revenue +44% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • CC
    CALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • PC
    Pennington County Treasurer
    one grant, 2020 · $70k
  • BH
    BLACK HILLS WAR MONUMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $59k · revenue -94% · 85% of their budget

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
2
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
3
Sd Association of Healthcare Organizations

Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.

4
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…

Human Services
5
South Dakota Voices for Peace

Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.

6
Watertown Development Company

Economic development in the watertown, south dakota area.

7
South Dakota Rural Electric Association

To serve the rural electric cooperatives in south dakota, to promote the effective development of rural electrification in south dakota on a cooperative, non-profit basis.

8
Badlands National Park Conservancy

The conservancy, in partnership with the national park service, is dedicated to enriching and preserving forever the wonders and significance of the parks of the badlands of south dakota.

Environment
9
South Dakota Native Homeownership Coalition Inc

To increase homeownership opportunities for south dakota's native people to build strong and healthy communities.

Community Improvement
10
Adams Museum & House Inc

The adams museum & house inc's mission is to remain dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the history and material culture of the black hills of south dakota.

Arts & Culture
11
Northeast South Dakota Area Health Education Center

To create and strengthen partnerships that cultivate a robust health workforce for rural and underserved communities in south dakota.

Education
12
South Dakota Retailers Association

Representing the interest of retail businesses who sell retail products and services throughout the state of south dakota.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Hanson-Larsen Memorial Park Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic Charter SchoolsArts & Cultural Organizatio…Family Philanthropic Founda…Christian Evangelism and Di…Diverse Mission Organizatio…Senior Residential Communit…Vulnerable Population Suppo…Faith-Based K-12 SchoolsSouth Dakota Regional Devel…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%6%<5yr17%8%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%1%<5yr17%36%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr14%5%20–35yr10%38%35–55yr13%15%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/191
the rest of the field
16%
1,538/9,594

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 136 of the 194 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/136
Grantees still filing
95/136
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $1,855,701 · OtherCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIESBoys and Girls Clubs of the Black Hills — $929,713 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of the Black HillsWESTERN DAKOTA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE — $589,508 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $544,200 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS O — $477,978 · OtherYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $416,596 · OtherNational American University Foundation — $405,422 · Other+126 more — $6,888,202 · Other+126 moreONEHEART — $6,605,704 · Housing & ShelterONEHEART+2 more — $51,956 · Housing & ShelterCHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION — $785,657 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'…SEQUEL INC — $305,000 · Human ServicesSEQUEL IN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $247,450 · Human ServicesAmerican …WELLSPRING INC — $139,650 · Human ServicesWELLSPRIN…RE-MEMBER — $129,860 · Human ServicesRE-MEMBERRAPID CITY Y M C A — $85,118 · Human Services+17 more — $288,108 · Human Services+17 moreRURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES — $1,051,838 · Community ImprovementTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR — $62,500 · Community Improvement+4 more — $71,250 · Community ImprovementMAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS — $402,750 · Arts & CultureFriends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting — $147,016 · Arts & CultureWAMBLI SKA SOCIETY — $82,706 · Arts & CultureSOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME — $68,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK HILLS WAR MONUMENT — $58,882 · Arts & CultureTHE BLACK HILLS PLAYHOUSE INC — $43,344 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $156,911 · Arts & CultureRAPID CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $414,477 · EducationSDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT — $178,527 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGE — $96,718 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN — $85,813 · EducationRAPID CITY CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ASSOC — $60,000 · EducationBLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $37,384 · Education+4 more — $70,250 · EducationWORLD VISION INC — $300,000 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC — $185,000 · InternationalFIELD OF HOPE — $37,935 · International
Other$12,107,320Housing & Shelter$6,657,660Human Services$1,980,843Community Improvement$1,185,588Arts & Culture$959,609Education$943,169International$522,935

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetONEHEART — $6,605,704 over 5y, 32% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $1,855,701 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetRURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES — $1,051,838 over 3y, 12% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Black Hills — $929,713 over 8y, 36% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION — $785,657 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $544,200 over 7y, 30% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS O — $477,978 over 8y, 18% of budgetYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $416,596 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetRAPID CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $414,477 over 8y, 80% of budgetNational American University Foundation — $405,422 over 4y, 82% of budgetMAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS — $402,750 over 7y, 14% of budgetStorybook Island — $367,703 over 6y, 35% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $300,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA — $283,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER — $270,275 over 7y, 79% of budgetWORKING AGAINST VIOLENCE INC — $253,956 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $247,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE BLACK HILLS — $238,071 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetBLACK HILLS WORKS FOUNDATION INC — $214,109 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $185,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT — $178,527 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting — $147,016 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWELLSPRING INC — $139,650 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBLACK HILLS RAPTOR CENTER — $137,255 over 7y, 19% of budgetRE-MEMBER — $129,860 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetRAPID CITY CLUB FOR BOYS INC — $123,470 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA SENIOR SERVICES INC — $122,898 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS — $99,900 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBLACK HILLS WORKS INC — $99,263 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE — $96,718 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILIP HEALTH SERVICES INC — $94,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA — $92,829 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN — $85,813 over 2y, 33% of budgetRAPID CITY Y M C A — $85,118 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWESTHILLS VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES — $84,844 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWAMBLI SKA SOCIETY — $82,706 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $82,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC — $81,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INC DBA WEST RIVER MENTAL HEALTH — $80,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION — $79,962 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFORK REAL COMMUNITY CAFE INC — $69,204 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME — $68,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA — $64,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetNORTHERN HILLS AREA CASA PROGRAM — $64,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR — $62,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRAPID CITY CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ASSOC — $60,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds ONEHEART
  • Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES
  • Who funds RURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of the Black Hills
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS O
  • Who funds YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds RAPID CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds National American University Foundation
  • Who funds MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS
  • Who funds Storybook Island
  • Who funds SEQUEL INC
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC
  • Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA
  • Who funds THE HOPE CENTER
  • Who funds WORKING AGAINST VIOLENCE INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE BLACK HILLS
  • Who funds BLACK HILLS WORKS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC
  • Who funds SDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT
  • Who funds ALLIANCE PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Friends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting
  • Who funds WELLSPRING INC
  • Who funds BLACK HILLS RAPTOR CENTER
  • Who funds RE-MEMBER
  • Who funds RAPID CITY CLUB FOR BOYS INC
  • Who funds WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA SENIOR SERVICES INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

South Dakota Community FoundationSD114.1× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · United Way of the Black Hills · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc · Larson Foundation · Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee · Synchrony Foundation · John T Vucurevich Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Dakota Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Black Hills Area Community Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
38report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 194 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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