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Covenant Foundation

To build on existing strength within the field of jewish education in north america, by addressing all forms of pre-collegiate and adult jewish education through awards to individuals and grants to institutions for creative programs.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$6.7MEducation$3.8MArts & Culture$2.6MHuman Services$1.4MPhilanthropy$879kYouth Development$551kSocial Science$370kCivil Rights$315kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $2,895,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,338,630 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $443,630 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.6M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The K'ilu Company$225,000
Moment Magazine$225,000
Mitsui Collective (FS Beloved Builders)$175,000
Institute for Jewish Spirituality$175,000
Kirva (FS FJC)$174,000
Civic Spirit (FS Hillel The Foundation for Jewi$165,000
MoEd$160,000
Ramah New England$150,000
American Jewish University$150,000
Rabbi Jacob Pressman Academy of Temple Beth Am$150,000
DOROT$150,000
Tkiya$135,000
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America$124,000
Illuminate (FS FJC)$75,000
Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools$60,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mitsui Collective (FS Beloved Builders): $175k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Seattle: $50k → 9%Ma'a lot (FS Beloved Builders): $136k → 12%COJECO: $150k → 17%Jewish Family&Children of Gr Philadelphia: $20k → 22%JCC Greater Boston: $20k → 8%MODERN JEWISH COUPLES (FS BELOVED BUILDERS): $45k → 12%MA'A LOT(FS BELOVED BUILDERS INC): $30k → 12%Olamim - Latin Jewish Belonging for Families (FS: $20k → 12%Modern JewISH Couples: $20k → 12%Matan: $156k → 17%JCC Assoc of North America: $75k → 17%JCC Assoc of North America: $65k → 17%Matan: $20k → 17%JCC Association Of North America: $20k → 17%Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan (JCC): $140k → 17%JCC Manhattan: $20k → 17%YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood: $35k → 17%DOROT: $150k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NC
DC
MS
GA
FL
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 67 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

67 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
66

Total granted

$11M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+46%

Still filing today

85%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
EducationReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • BB
    BELOVED BUILDERS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $426k · revenue +485%
  • MT
    MOVING TRADITIONS
    3× · 2017–2022 · $392k · revenue +30%
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $362k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • AJ
    AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $170k · revenue +30%
  • EJ
    EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +83%
  • SS
    SACRED SPACESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +94%
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
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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5
University of Judaism Foundation
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6
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
7
Torah Temimah Jerusalem

The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…

Education
8
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
9
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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10
Jj Greenberg Institute for the Advancment of Jewish Life Inc

The organization was formed to operate to develop and disseminate a narrative of jewry and judaism that can sustain jewish identity of jews fully integrated in post-modern culture. the institute's program will help translate the narrative…

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11
Institute for the Next Jewish Future Injf

Judaism unbound is a digitally driven, radically open center for education and serves as a catalyst for an entirely new era of judaism. we empower regular jews who are to develop new ways of living jewishly.

Arts & Culture
12
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas). 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

125 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. 125 of the 150 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/125
Grantees still filing
87/125
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOED INCORPORATED: $355,000 · EducationMOED INCORPORATEDThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $333,693 · EducationThe President and Trustees…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $299,500 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INCPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $230,000 · EducationPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH …CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE: $225,000 · EducationCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGEHEBREW COLLEGE: $218,850 · EducationSEFARIA INC: $198,000 · EducationBRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL - MARIN: $175,000 · EducationYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC: $175,000 · EducationMakom Community: $163,000 · EducationTHE IDEA SCHOOL INC: $160,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationM2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION: $150,000 · EducationLURIA ACADEMY OF BROOKLYN: $150,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $150,000 · EducationBRANDEIS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $149,872 · Education+17 more: $930,800 · Education+17 moreMOVING TRADITIONS: $392,000 · ReligionMOVING TRADITIONSHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $361,500 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR…TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $279,500 · ReligionTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY …SVIVAH INC: $237,000 · ReligionSVIVAH INCREBOOT INC: $230,000 · ReligionREBOOT INCJEWISH IMAGINATION LAB DBA K'ILU COMMUNITY: $225,000 · ReligionJEWISH IMAGINATION LAB DB…THE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT: $205,000 · ReligionINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $195,000 · ReligionSTORAHTELLING LAB SHUL INC: $170,000 · ReligionOROT THE CENTER FOR NEW JEWISH LEARNING: $168,600 · ReligionONETABLE INC: $158,000 · ReligionSACRED SPACES: $150,000 · ReligionLIMMUD FSU INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 · ReligionSVARA: $150,000 · ReligionJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $150,000 · ReligionCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION: $150,000 · ReligionJEWISH COMMUNITIES OF VERMONT INC: $141,000 · ReligionADAMAH INC: $136,460 · Religion+8 more: $390,500 · Religion+8 moreJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $316,500 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF…B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT QUEENS COLLEGE INC: $217,500 · OtherMECHON HADAR: $185,000 · OtherStudio 70: $165,000 · OtherInstitute for Jewish & Community Research DBA Bechol Lashon: $280,000 · OtherInstitute for Jewish & Communi…PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC: $171,750 · Other+45 more: $3,483,367 · Other+45 moreTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC: $232,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH WOM…THE INHEIRITANCE PROJECT LTD: $205,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INHEIRITAN…THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $178,750 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORA…AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $170,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWIS…WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $150,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIO…THE VILNA SHUL BOSTONS CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VILNA SHUL…Let It Ripple Inc: $150,000 · Arts & CultureLet It Ripple …THEATRE DYBBUK: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE DYBBUKINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $150,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF S…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM: $146,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIEN…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $145,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLA…Tkiya Music Inc: $135,000 · Arts & CultureTkiya Music In…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $90,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $295,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreBELOVED BUILDERS INC: $425,800 · Human ServicesMATAN INC: $176,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $160,000 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesDOROT INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL OF JEWISH EMIGRE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50,000 · Human Services+3 more: $75,000 · Human ServicesFJC: $841,300 · Crime & LegalADVOT: $50,000 · Crime & LegalEDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsRAMAH IN THE ROCKIES: $118,750 · Recreation & Sports
Education$4,213,715Religion$4,039,560Other$4,819,117Arts & Culture$2,346,750Human Services$1,346,800Crime & Legal$891,300Recreation & Sports$468,750

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 budgetFJC: $841,300 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBELOVED BUILDERS INC: $425,800 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $392,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $361,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOED INCORPORATED: $355,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $333,693 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $299,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetInstitute for Jewish & Community Research DBA Bechol Lashon: $280,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $279,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSVIVAH INC: $237,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC: $232,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetREBOOT INC: $230,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $230,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $218,850 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT QUEENS COLLEGE INC: $217,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE INHEIRITANCE PROJECT LTD: $205,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetTHE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT: $205,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetEDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSEFARIA INC: $198,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $195,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $178,750 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMATAN INC: $176,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetBRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL - MARIN: $175,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC: $171,750 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSTORAHTELLING LAB SHUL INC: $170,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $170,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetOROT THE CENTER FOR NEW JEWISH LEARNING: $168,600 over 4y, 33% of budgetStudio 70: $165,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetMakom Community: $163,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $160,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE IDEA SCHOOL INC: $160,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetONETABLE INC: $158,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGROWTORAH INC: $154,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSACRED SPACES: $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE VILNA SHUL BOSTONS CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLet It Ripple Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetM2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION: $150,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetLIMMUD FSU INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetLURIA ACADEMY OF BROOKLYN: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHEATRE DYBBUK: $150,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetSVARA: $150,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $150,000 over 2y, 4.3% 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.

The Shimon Ben Joseph…United Jewish Appeal-…Upstart Bay AreaJewish Community Fede…Combined Jewish Phila…The Harold Grinspoon …Jewish Communal FundArie and Ida Crown Me…Jewish Federation of …Lippman Kanfer Founda…FjcJewish Community Foun…
The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph FoundationCA105.3× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Upstart Bay Area · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Adamah Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Day School Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
31report 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, 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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How do I get to Covenant Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Covenant 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 150 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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