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Boswell Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$191k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$277kCommunity Improvement$202kHealth$193kCrime & Legal$190kFood & Nutrition$184kRecreation & Sports$138kHuman Services$123kEnvironment$118kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION$50,000
THE ADVOCATES$25,000
THE CRISIS HOTLINE$10,000
MEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING$7,500
CALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION$5,200
FLOURISH FOUNDATION$5,000
THE SPACE IDAHO INC$5,000
SAWTOOTH SPORTS FOUNDATION$5,000
STANLEY SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION$5,000
BLAINE COUNTY RECREATION DISTRICT$5,000
BLAINE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
WOOD RIVER FIRE & RESCUE$5,000
HOSPICE & PALLATIVE CARE OF THE WR VALLEY$5,000
THE SENIOR CONNECTION$5,000
THE HUNGER COALITION$4,000
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 (FY17–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%World Food Program USA: $100 → 14%WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE: $500 → 8%WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE: $500 → 8%WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE: $150 → 8%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $3k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $3k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $2k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $1k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $1k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUINE CENTER: $1k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $827 → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $600 → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $600 → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $8k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $6k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $5k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $5k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $5k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $5k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $5k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $5k → 7%FLOURISH FOUNDATION: $11k → 7%BALD MOUNTAIN RESCUE FUND: $11k → 7%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%HOSPICE & PALLATIVE CARE OF THE WR VALLEY: $5k → 7%FLOURISH FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%BALD MOUNTAIN RESCUE FUND INC: $3k → 7%BALD MOUNTAIN RESCUE FUND: $1k → 7%Sun Valley Institute for Resilience: $100 → 7%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

ID
MT
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Boswell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in ID; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Boswell Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 67 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
28

Total granted

$1.5M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+22%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • SL
    ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +98%
  • BC
    BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +172%
  • BC
    BLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SUN CITIES AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -37%
  • TA
    THE ARGYROS
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • HR
    Hiatus Ranch of Idaho Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +3%

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
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
2
Idaho Wildlife Federation

The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.

Animals
3
Ecosystem Sciences Foundation Inc

River and watershed restoration

Environment
4
Snake River Fund

The snake river fund is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to promoting stewardship of and public access to the snake river watershed in wyoming, with an emphasis on partnerships, education and public outreach.

Environment
5
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
6
Sheridan Community Land Trust

Sheridan community land trust preserves our open spaces, healthy rivers and creeks, working ranches, wildlife habitat, and vibrant history, while expanding recreation opportunities to connect people with the places they love.

Environment
7
South Fork Boise River Association

Provide community improvements for the rural idaho mountain communities of pine & featherville, idaho.

Human Services
8
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
9
Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc

Our mission is to protect, connect, and enhance wildlife habitat, working lands, and community spaces in southeast idaho, now and for future generations.

Environment
10
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
11
Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Protect And Sustain Idaho's Fishing, Hunting And Wildlife Heritage For Present And Future Generations.

Animals
12
Snake River Waterkeeper Inc

Snake River Waterkeeper exists for the purpose of applying science and law to protect, restore, and sustain waters of the Snake River Basin, and to support clean water access and advocacy in underserved communities worldwide.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sawtooth Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Word of Honor Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr15%18%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr14%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%10%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr17%41%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr14%9%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
13%
2,047/15,828

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.

05the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 104 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
41/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CALIFORNIA AG LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA AG LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONTHE ADVOCATES — $188,700 · OtherTHE ADVOCATESTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARY — $125,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARYBLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $86,000 · OtherBLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $60,609 · OtherSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC+62 more — $330,188 · Other+62 moreST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC — $117,500 · HealthST LUKE'S …THE CRISIS HOTLINE INC — $14,925 · HealthTHE CRISIS…EXPEDITION INSPIRATION FUND — $8,530 · HealthEXPEDITION…Hiatus Ranch of Idaho Inc — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $3,010 · HealthBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC — $107,650 · Food & NutritionBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION — $43,015 · Human ServicesFLOURISH FOUNDATION INC — $16,250 · Human ServicesBald Mountain Rescue Fund — $15,000 · Human ServicesWord of Honor Fund — $11,027 · Human ServicesSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC — $5,000 · Human Services+5 more — $5,350 · Human ServicesIDAHO RIVERS UNITED — $34,866 · EnvironmentSAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC — $16,640 · EnvironmentWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $14,500 · EnvironmentTHE SNAKE RIVER ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $9,303 · EnvironmentSAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN — $3,425 · Environment+1 more — $2,500 · EnvironmentWood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsSawtooth Sports Foundation Inc — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsWOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC — $6,069 · Recreation & SportsWINTER SUN HORSE PARK INC — $4,000 · Recreation & SportsHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $2,250 · Recreation & SportsBOULDER MOUNTAIN TOUR LTD — $2,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $1,200 · Recreation & SportsThe Space Idaho Inc — $23,273 · EducationSTANLEY SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $5,000 · EducationFARWISE INC — $2,500 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $2,450 · Education
Other$1,040,497Health$148,965Food & Nutrition$107,650Human Services$105,642Environment$81,234Recreation & Sports$48,519Education$33,223

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 budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC — $117,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC — $107,650 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $86,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $60,609 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION — $43,015 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetIDAHO RIVERS UNITED — $34,866 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetThe Space Idaho Inc — $23,273 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC — $16,640 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetFLOURISH FOUNDATION INC — $16,250 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION — $15,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $15,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc — $15,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBald Mountain Rescue Fund — $15,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetSawtooth Sports Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetTHE CRISIS HOTLINE INC — $14,925 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $14,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC — $12,535 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWord of Honor Fund — $11,027 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SNAKE RIVER ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $9,303 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetEXPEDITION INSPIRATION FUND — $8,530 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSun Valley Realtors Give Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC — $6,069 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHiatus Ranch of Idaho Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSTANLEY SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBALLET SUN VALLEY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWINTER SUN HORSE PARK INC — $4,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN — $3,425 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER — $3,200 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC — $3,025 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREDSIDE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARWISE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $2,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROTARUN SKI CLUB — $2,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER MOUNTAIN TOUR LTD — $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $1,925 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $1,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE INC — $1,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIBERTY THEATRE COMPANY — $1,023 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN IDAHO INC DBA Girls on the Run Treasure Valley — $1,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBE GOOD FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC
  • Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION
  • Who funds IDAHO RIVERS UNITED
  • Who funds The Space Idaho Inc
  • Who funds SAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Wood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc
  • Who funds Bald Mountain Rescue Fund
  • Who funds Sawtooth Sports Foundation Inc
  • Who funds THE CRISIS HOTLINE INC
  • Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO
  • Who funds BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC
  • Who funds ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC
  • Who funds Word of Honor Fund
  • Who funds THE SUN CITIES AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING
  • Who funds THE SNAKE RIVER ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC
  • Who funds EXPEDITION INSPIRATION FUND
  • Who funds Sun Valley Realtors Give Inc
  • Who funds WOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC
  • Who funds IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC
  • Who funds Hailey Rotary Foundation Inc

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.

Spur Community Foundation IncID66.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Thrasher Koffey Foundation · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · Helios Foundation · Nicholas Martin Jr Family Foundation · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Heinz Family Foundation · Resource Trust Inc · The Springcreek Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Pesky Family 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 Boswell Family 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 · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Sea Education Association Inc12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 104 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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