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Boettcher Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
241
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$30MHealth$7.6MArts & Culture$1.8MCommunity Improvement$986kHuman Services$905kPhilanthropy$761kPublic Benefit$668kRecreation & Sports$509kOther$0
02FY2024 · 241 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 241 grants below total $9,463,256, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,243,625 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $780,369 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k169 grants · $352k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $995k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.1M
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$277M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Colorado Boulder - Scholarships$1,564,783
Colorado College - Scholarships$990,809
University of Denver - Scholarships$942,194
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus$696,126
Colorado State University - Scholarships$526,222
University of Colorado Boulder$487,136
Colorado School of Mines - Scholarships$414,689
Colorado State University - Grants$257,500
Colorado Mesa University Foundation$250,000
National Jewish Health$242,500
University of Northern Colorado Foundation$200,000
Food Bank of the Rockies$150,000
Colorado State Fair Foundation$150,000
University of Denver$125,000
University of Colorado Colorado Springs$120,370
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 (FY20–21, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Cheyenne County Village: $100 → 13%Angel Covers: $3k → 7%Mwebaza Foundation: $58 → 12%Baby Bear Hugs: $510 → 13%Kit Carson Rural Development: $25k → 14%National Scholarship Providers Assn: $450 → 8%Mwebaza Foundation: $58 → 12%Kit Carson Rural Development: $250 → 14%National Scholarship Providers Assn: $225 → 8%A Precious Child: $51 → 5%Asian Pacific Development Center: $500 → 8%A Precious Child: $30 → 5%Asian Pacific Development Center: $250 → 8%Seniors' Resource Center: $100 → 12%Pathways Hospice: $26 → 11%National Scholarship Providers Association: $300 → 12%National Scholarship Providers Association: $225 → 12%the PLACE: $38 → 9%National Scholarship Providers Association: $225 → 12%Painted Paws for Veterans: $255 → 9%National Scholarship Providers Association: $225 → 12%Intercambio Uniting Communities: $200 → 12%Cheyenne Village: $250 → 9%A Little Help: $102 → 12%A Little Help: $100 → 12%Clothes to Kids: $50 → 12%Family Promise of Greater Denver: $250 → 12%American Red Cross of Colorado: $100 → 12%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41M · 152 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

152 repeat relationships: 91 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 83 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

152
268

Total granted

$41M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+22%

Still filing today

72%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PE
    PUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +76% · 32% of their budget
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +13%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +193%

Funded once

  • CO
    City of Colorado Springs
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • DZ
    DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +30%
  • University of New England
    one grant, 2022 · $124k · revenue +20%
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
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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2
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

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3
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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4
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
5
Destination Colorado Meetings

a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…

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6
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
7
Colorado Democracy Alliance

The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.

Civil Rights
8
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
9
Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health
10
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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11
Colorado Council On Economic Education

Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…

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12
Building a Better Colorado

To conduct research, promote community engagement, and provide an amalgamation of information to the citizens of colorado.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Three Creeks K-8 Pto. 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

337 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 337 of the 517 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
75
Early backer (in before they grew)
332/337
Grantees still filing
223/337
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Colorado Boulder - Scholarships: $6,300,348 · OtherUniversity of Colorado Boulder - ScholarshipsUniversity of Denver - Scholarships: $5,258,502 · OtherUniversity of Denver - ScholarshipsColorado College - Scholarships: $5,194,661 · OtherColorado College - ScholarshipsUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: $3,892,642 · OtherUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusColorado State University - Scholarships: $2,020,436 · OtherColorado State University - ScholarshipsColorado State University - Grants: $1,966,950 · OtherColorado State University - GrantsUniversity of Colorado Boulder: $1,723,575 · OtherColorado School of Mines - Scholarships: $1,470,231 · Other+102 more: $7,633,631 · Other+102 morePUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION: $3,289,050 · EducationPUBLIC EDUCA…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $281,269 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $252,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $205,000 · Education+24 more: $1,189,751 · Education+24 moreNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $1,136,489 · HealthEASTER SEALS COLORADO: $50,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP (CHP): $50,000 · HealthMARILLAC CLINIC INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE ARCHER GROUP: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $30,750 · HealthDENVER METRO CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $276,125 · PhilanthropyBOETTCHER SCHOLARS FUND: $253,175 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $150,450 · PhilanthropyRose Community Foundation: $130,100 · PhilanthropyMONTE VISTA COMMUNITY FUND INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $75,250 · PhilanthropyYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,925 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $50,250 · PhilanthropyWESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,102 · PhilanthropyCARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND: $50,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $144,880 · PhilanthropyFOOTHILLS ART CENTER INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLORADO STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureGOVERNORS RESIDENCE PRESERVATION FUND: $114,610 · Arts & CultureColorado Museum of Natural History: $76,725 · Arts & CultureLatino Leadership Institute: $69,495 · Arts & CultureGunnison Council for the Arts: $60,000 · Arts & CulturePULLIAM COMMUNITY BUILDING FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $218,764 · Arts & CultureTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $293,900 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $77,500 · Human ServicesHolyoke Community Childcare: $50,000 · Human ServicesSenior Citizens Action Group: $50,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSAVIO HOUSE: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCommunity of Caring Foundation Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesKIT CARSON RURAL DEVELOPMENT: $29,750 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $145,262 · Community ImprovementCenter for African American Health: $75,100 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $73,250 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $51,255 · Community ImprovementCROSSPURPOSE: $35,000 · Community ImprovementRUBY M SISSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Community ImprovementWEST END ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $32,500 · Community ImprovementFULL CIRCLE OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $25,300 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMEXICAN-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WAREHOUSE BUSINESS ACCELERATOR: $20,000 · Community ImprovementKarvel Community Alliance Inc: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$35,460,976Education$5,217,570Health$1,367,239Philanthropy$1,341,257Arts & Culture$1,314,594Human Services$686,150Community Improvement$562,667

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 budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION: $3,289,050 over 5y, 32% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $1,136,489 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $500,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOOTHILLS ART CENTER INC: $350,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $293,900 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $281,269 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER METRO CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $276,125 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $266,102 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $266,100 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBOETTCHER SCHOLARS FUND: $253,175 over 2y, 77% of budgetCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $252,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $251,427 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $242,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $205,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $175,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $150,450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCIVICO: $149,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $145,262 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $130,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $128,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $124,432 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $118,569 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNORS RESIDENCE PRESERVATION FUND: $114,610 over 4y, 71% of budgetCIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY: $110,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $101,375 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMONTE VISTA COMMUNITY FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $80,136 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $77,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $76,725 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $75,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $75,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for African American Health: $75,100 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTRINIDAD STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPueblo Community College Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPapua New Guinea Tribal Foundation: $74,450 over 4y, 11% of budgetCOLORADO NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $73,250 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFOX WEST THEATRE ALLIANCE: $70,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetLatino Leadership Institute: $69,495 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,925 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGunnison Council for the Arts: $60,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC: $55,100 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $51,255 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $50,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,128 over 2y, 0.7% 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 PUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOTHILLS ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DENVER METRO CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BOETTCHER SCHOLARS FUND ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CIVICO ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds University of New England ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗

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 Colorado Health F…Colorado Gives Founda…Gates Family Foundati…Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationEl Pomar FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Caring for Colorado F…Daniels FundThe Anschutz Foundati…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…The Colorado Trust
The Colorado Health FoundationCO152.9× affinity132 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Anschutz Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Colorado Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    0get no government money at all
    71report 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.

    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 517 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $10M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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