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Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$3.9MHealth$2.6MHuman Services$1.6MYouth Development$881kArts & Culture$857kEnvironment$760kRecreation & Sports$514kCrime & Legal$460kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $851k
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$150,000
TOWN OF HAYDEN$100,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH LAW$90,000
QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$55,500
REACHING EVERYONE PREVENTING SUICIDE (REPS)$55,000
SOUTH ROUTT SCHOOL DISTRICT$50,000
FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$50,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE$50,000
LIFT-UP OF ROUTT COUNTY$50,000
BETTER TOMORROW$50,000
HAYDEN SCHOOL DISTRICT$50,000
YAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL$50,000
YAMPA VALLEY AUTISM PROGRAM$50,000
INTEGRATED COMMUNITY$45,000
NORTHWEST COLORADO HEALTH$45,000
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 (FY17–24, $694k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $36k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $30k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $30k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $30k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS: $30k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $20k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $20k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $19k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS: $15k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $5k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS: $4k → 6%LIFT-UP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $50k → 6%LIFT-UP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $50k → 6%LIFT-UP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $50k → 6%LIFT-UP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $50k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $37k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $30k → 6%BETTER TOMORROW: $25k → 6%BETTER TOMORROW: $25k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $15k → 6%LIFTUP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $15k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $15k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $15k → 6%LIFTUP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $15k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $15k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $15k → 6%LIFTUP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $12k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $10k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $5k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $3k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $3k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $500 → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $500 → 6%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

NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
DC
AL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 78 repeat orgs$666k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

78 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
44

Total granted

$12M
$566k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+15%

Still filing today

60%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NC
    National Center for Youth Law
    5× · 2020–2024 · $460k · revenue +31%
  • TL
    THE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $440k · revenue +142%
  • IC
    INTEGRATED COMMUNITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $437k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • R
    REPROCOLLAB
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • NC
    NW CO COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $40k

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
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
2
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…

3
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…

4
Routt County Economic Development Partnership

The purpose(s) of the Partnership is to improve the quality of life and economic well-being across Routt County by: (i) enabling business and job retention to increase employment and improve the public welfare, (ii) promoting and assisting…

Community Improvement
5
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
6
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
7
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…

8
Nature and Raptor Center of Pueblo

The agency is a conservation Center near Pueblo, CO, where land and people can provide unique experiences in education, conservation and recreation that inspire responsible environmental stewardship.

9
San Juan Mountains Association

To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.

Environment
10
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
11
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…

12
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Totally Kids Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr21%35%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr13%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr21%42%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr13%19%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/75
the rest of the field
11%
3,250/29,111

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

68 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. 68 of the 133 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)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/68
Grantees still filing
47/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Steamboat Springs School District RE-2 — $767,000 · OtherSteamboat Springs School District RE-2South Routt School District RE-3 — $576,653 · OtherSouth Routt School District RE-3Hayden School District No RE-1 — $539,880 · OtherHayden School District No RE-1National Center for Youth Law — $460,000 · OtherNational Center for Youth LawTHE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL — $440,000 · OtherTHE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOLCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE — $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · Other+86 more — $3,509,983 · Other+86 moreYAMPA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,161,459 · HealthYAMPA VALLEY MED…NORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $382,750 · HealthNORTHWEST COLORA…COLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC — $281,780 · HealthCOLORADO WEST RE…ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC — $126,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN D…+1 more — $20,000 · HealthINTEGRATED COMMUNITY — $437,481 · Human ServicesINTEGRATED COMM…Yampa Valley Autism Program — $325,543 · Human ServicesYampa Valley Au…Lift Up of Routt County — $242,000 · Human ServicesLift Up of Rout…TOTALLY KIDS INC — $238,850 · Human ServicesTOTALLY KIDS IN…STEAMBOAT SPRINGS DISCOVERY LEARNING CENTER — $188,000 · Human ServicesSTEAMBOAT SPRIN…BETTER TOMORROW — $179,295 · Human ServicesBETTER TOMORROWYOUNG TRACKS INC — $163,250 · Human ServicesYOUNG TRACKS IN…+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesBOOK TRAILS INC — $224,000 · EducationPARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY — $197,880 · EducationHERITAGE PARK PRESCHOOL — $133,000 · EducationNorthwest Colorado Center for Independence Inc — $123,100 · EducationNORTH ROUTT COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL — $105,200 · EducationSTEAMBOAT READING INC — $95,000 · EducationROUTT COUNTY RIDERS — $65,000 · EducationSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL — $315,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA — $175,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA STEAMBOAT — $110,000 · Arts & CultureSTEAMBOAT DANCE THEATRE — $58,850 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO NEW PLAY FESTIVAL — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $38,000 · Arts & CultureSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports — $230,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Cycle Effect — $121,000 · Recreation & SportsSOS OUTREACH — $79,500 · Recreation & SportsSteamboat Tennis Association — $45,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsYAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL — $248,000 · EnvironmentYAMPATIKA — $107,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 · EnvironmentSolar United Neighbors Inc — $20,000 · Environment+1 more — $10,000 · Environment
Other$6,843,516Health$1,971,989Human Services$1,784,419Education$943,180Arts & Culture$726,850Recreation & Sports$485,500Environment$435,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYAMPA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,161,459 over 7y, 20% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law — $460,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL — $440,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetINTEGRATED COMMUNITY — $437,481 over 8y, 13% of budgetNORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $382,750 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetYampa Valley Autism Program — $325,543 over 8y, 12% of budgetSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL — $315,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetCOLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC — $281,780 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL — $248,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetLift Up of Routt County — $242,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetTOTALLY KIDS INC — $238,850 over 8y, 15% of budgetSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports — $230,000 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS — $227,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBOOK TRAILS INC — $224,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetPARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY — $197,880 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO — $197,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $190,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEAMBOAT SPRINGS DISCOVERY LEARNING CENTER — $188,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetBETTER TOMORROW — $179,295 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $176,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA — $175,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetYOUNG TRACKS INC — $163,250 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $142,525 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHERITAGE PARK PRESCHOOL — $133,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC — $126,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetNorthwest Colorado Center for Independence Inc — $123,100 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetThe Cycle Effect — $121,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetOPERA STEAMBOAT — $110,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetYAMPATIKA — $107,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetNORTH ROUTT COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL — $105,200 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetEMERALD MOUNTAIN SCHOOL — $96,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSTEAMBOAT READING INC — $95,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSOS OUTREACH — $79,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $72,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE INC — $65,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetROUTT COUNTY RIDERS — $65,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetNORTHWEST ROCKY MOUNTAIN CASA — $65,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetSTEAMBOAT DANCE THEATRE — $58,850 over 8y, 15% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE YAMPA VALLEY — $46,533 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetSteamboat Tennis Association — $45,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetPHILANTHROPY COLORADO — $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOLORADO NEW PLAY FESTIVAL — $30,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO — $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWORKLIFE PARTNERSHIP — $26,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC — $25,500 over 2y, 0.4% 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 YAMPA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds National Center for Youth Law
  • Who funds THE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL
  • Who funds INTEGRATED COMMUNITY
  • Who funds NORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Yampa Valley Autism Program
  • Who funds STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL
  • Who funds COLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC
  • Who funds YAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL
  • Who funds Lift Up of Routt County
  • Who funds TOTALLY KIDS INC
  • Who funds Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS
  • Who funds BOOK TRAILS INC
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds STEAMBOAT SPRINGS DISCOVERY LEARNING CENTER
  • Who funds BETTER TOMORROW
  • Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA
  • Who funds YOUNG TRACKS INC
  • Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HERITAGE PARK PRESCHOOL
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds Northwest Colorado Center for Independence Inc
  • Who funds The Cycle Effect
  • Who funds OPERA STEAMBOAT
  • Who funds YAMPATIKA
  • Who funds NORTH ROUTT COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO76.8× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · United Way of the Yampa Valley · Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Moniker Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Steamboat Springs Education Fund · Kettering Family Foundation · Steve and Kelly Bloom Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation

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 Craig-Scheckman 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 · 10%2%6%14%25%your 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
    33report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Craig-Scheckman Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 133 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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