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Deerbrook Charitable Trust

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33M
Granted FY2022
30
Grants FY2022
13
States reached
$11M
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 FY20202022.

Youth Development$31MScience & Tech$15MEducation$11MHealth$11MHuman Services$7.8MPhilanthropy$4.4MFood & Nutrition$2.6MEnvironment$1.0MOther$0
02FY2022 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k7 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $972k
  • $250k+13 grants · $32M
$200,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION$10,525,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$5,940,610
MEDSTAR HEALTH GIFT ACCOUNT$3,159,751
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY$2,900,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY$2,238,581
BAYLOR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM$2,234,871
PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS INC$1,300,000
VISION TO LEARN$1,175,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON- MAIN CONCETRATION ACCOUNT$940,889
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANATEE COUNTY$492,500
GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT$483,129
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ANNAPOLIS$350,000
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE$250,000
MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE$232,000
WILLS EYE HOSPITAL$200,000
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 (FY20–22, $7.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $100k → 6%COMPASSION FOR LIFE CORPORATION: $95k → 10%COMPASSION FOR LIFE CORPORATION: $65k → 10%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS: $5.0M → 17%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $483k → 14%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $1.1M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $250k → 17%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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MN
NY
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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 21% of Deerbrook Charitable Trust’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.

Deerbrook Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$72M · 45 repeat orgs$9.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2022, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
22

Total granted

$72M
$8.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+16%

Still filing today

76%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $486k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Food & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionOther

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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $21M · revenue +8%
  • WH
    WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15M · revenue +35%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3.6M · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • BM
    BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5.0M · revenue -78%
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +15%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $870k · revenue +67%

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.

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Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

4
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Regional East Texas Food Bank

Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.

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Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…

Education
8
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
9
National College Advising Corps Inc

College advising corps (cac) is the nation's largest nonprofit service organization dedicated to advancing educational equity and expanding opportunity for all high school students. cac provides college enrollment and career guidance to…

Education
10
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
11
Goldey-Beacom College

Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.

Education
12
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Pbc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 backsteadyYouth Development CentersCommunity FoundationsSchool District FoundationsLocal History MuseumsCommunity College Foundatio…Youth Sports ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…United Way AffiliatesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Mentoring ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Elementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Foundations
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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%29%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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%0/56
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,509

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

56 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. 56 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
40/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $20,827,142 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICABOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY — $3,560,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTYPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $2,425,000 · Youth DevelopmentPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC — $1,167,367 · Youth Development+5 more — $1,707,000 · Youth Development+5 moreMEDSTAR HEALTH GIFT ACCOUNT — $4,039,751 · OtherMEDSTAR HEALTH GIFT ACCOU…THE BELL FOUNDATION INC — $4,000,000 · OtherTHE BELL FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON- MAIN CONCETRATION ACCOUNT — $2,612,667 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AR…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ANNAPOLIS — $1,100,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ANNA…AUSTIN STREET CENTER — $850,000 · OtherYWCA of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Maryland Inc — $791,888 · OtherSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $700,000 · OtherANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $1,117,850 · OtherANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD …+34 more — $4,071,340 · Other+34 moreWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $14,659,871 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGR…BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC — $5,000,000 · Human ServicesBLUE MERI…HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $1,350,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CH…GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT — $483,129 · Human ServicesGENESIS W…+2 more — $260,000 · Human ServicesVISION TO LEARN — $2,925,000 · HealthVISION TO…Baylor Health Care System — $2,559,871 · HealthBaylor He…FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY — $825,000 · HealthFOUNDATIO…CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL — $600,000 · HealthCITY OF P…BAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $1,500,000 · EducationINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,345,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS — $980,000 · EducationANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 · Education+4 more — $24,250 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL CO — $3,382,581 · Philanthropy+1 more — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Youth Development$29,686,509Other$19,283,496Science & Tech$14,659,871Human Services$7,093,129Health$6,909,871Education$3,984,250Philanthropy$3,432,581

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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $20,827,142 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $14,659,871 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC — $5,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BELL FOUNDATION INC — $4,000,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY — $3,560,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL CO — $3,382,581 over 3y, 34% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $2,925,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetBaylor Health Care System — $2,559,871 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $2,425,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $1,350,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,345,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC — $1,167,367 over 3y, 14% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $1,117,850 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $980,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC — $870,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $850,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY — $825,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetYWCA of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Maryland Inc — $791,888 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $700,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL — $600,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT — $483,129 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMomentous Institute — $357,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Children's Law Center — $325,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC — $325,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $250,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF CHESTER — $250,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $250,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND — $230,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCompassion For Life Corporation — $160,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $150,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN OVERSEAS MEMORIAL DAY ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI MARYLAND INC — $65,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL — $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation of Anne Arundel CoMD17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Arundel Community Development Services Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Impactassetsinc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 Deerbrook Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution63% of income from government
  • Pride of Baltimore Inc30% of income from government
  • Sea Education Association Inc12% of income from government
  • Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc2% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County2% of income from government
  • Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc2% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc0% of income from government
  • Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc0% of income from government
  • The Rectory School Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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

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How do I get to Deerbrook Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Deerbrook Charitable Trust 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 71 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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