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Dunn-French 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.

$392k
Granted FY2025still arriving
98
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$480kReligion$449kHealth$418kEnvironment$179kArts & Culture$164kHuman Services$146kCommunity Improvement$82kYouth Development$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k89 grants · $232k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF ALABAMA$40,000
FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS$30,000
MOUNTAIN BROOK BAPTIST CHURCH$20,000
UAB MEDICINE ENTERPRISE$15,000
GRACE HOUSE$15,000
SKYLINE FDN$10,000
ST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDS$10,000
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CHURCH OF NATIVITY$10,000
CHILDREN'S OF ALABAMA$9,000
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$7,500
CHILDREN'S HARBOR$7,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
ONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER$5,000
YWCA$5,000
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, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 18%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 24%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 18%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 24%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 18%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 18%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 18%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 18%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 18%ONE PLACE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $3k → 18%UNLESS U: $1k → 7%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 18%ONE PLACE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $1k → 18%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 18%UNLESS U: $1k → 7%UNLESS U: $1k → 7%KING'S HOME: $3k → 7%KINGS HOME: $1k → 7%KINGS HOME: $1k → 7%KINGS HOME: $1k → 7%KING'S HOME: $1k → 7%KINGS HOME: $1k → 7%KING'S HOME: $1k → 7%KINGS HOME: $1k → 7%KINGS HOME: $1k → 7%LOVELADY CENTER: $2k → 16%LOVELADY CENTER: $1k → 16%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $3k → 16%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $3k → 16%UNLESS U: $1k → 16%UNLESS U: $1k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $3k → 16%HEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA: $2k → 16%PATHWAY'S: $3k → 16%PATHWAY'S: $3k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $1k → 16%ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM: $1k → 16%BROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $1k → 16%BROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $1k → 16%BROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $1k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $1k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $1k → 16%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

MI
MA
OH
NJ
VA
TN
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 147 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

147 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147
66

Total granted

$2.2M
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+56%

Still filing today

50%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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 ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • HD
    HIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +21%
  • TB
    THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +44%
  • TC
    The Children's Hospital of Alabama
    9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • BS
    BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CU
    CHRISTIAN UNION PRINCETON
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM - SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

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
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
2
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
3
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
4
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

5
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala

To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.

Health
6
Alabama a&M University Foundation

The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…

7
Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
8
Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc

Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

Environment
9
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
10
The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

11
Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Health
12
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Foundation of Mississippi and the most unlike its peers is James Whites Fort. 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 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr16%5%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr12%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr16%1%5–10yr21%9%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr12%52%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/107
the rest of the field
16%
1,393/8,723

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

100 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. 100 of the 232 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)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/100
Grantees still filing
76/100
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDS — $140,000 · OtherST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDSHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $109,000 · OtherHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONMOUNTAIN BROOK BAPTIST CHURCH — $71,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF ALABAMA — $60,000 · Other+136 more — $1,221,200 · Other+136 moreThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $53,000 · HealthThe Childr…CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $40,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S…LAKESHORE FOUNDATION — $28,500 · HealthLAKESHORE …UAB MEDICINE ENTERPRISE — $15,000 · HealthUAB MEDICI…American Heart Association Inc — $13,500 · HealthAmerican H…THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $13,000 · HealthTHE BELL C…MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL — $9,500 · HealthChrist Health Center Inc — $8,500 · HealthMITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $8,000 · HealthUNITED ABILITY INC — $7,500 · Health+4 more — $15,000 · Health+4 moreTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL — $48,500 · EducationTHE ALTAMO…LINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC — $27,500 · EducationLINLY HEFL…Darlington School Inc — $25,000 · EducationDarlington…STAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $23,500 · EducationSTAIR OF B…I3 ACADEMY — $17,500 · EducationI3 ACADEMYTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY — $17,500 · EducationTHE RESTOR…AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationAUBURN UNI…Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation — $8,500 · EducationFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY — $8,500 · Education+6 more — $19,500 · Education+6 moreMississippi State University Foundation Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesKings Home Inc — $10,500 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGHT INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesBROTHER BRYAN MISSION — $9,000 · Human ServicesBIG OAK RANCH INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesUNLESS U INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesRENEW BIRMINGHAM — $5,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM — $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDCARE RESOURCES — $4,000 · Human ServicesONE PLACE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER — $3,500 · Human Services+6 more — $12,000 · Human ServicesWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $45,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementCahaba River Society Inc — $18,000 · Community ImprovementRotaract Club of Birmingham Foundation — $7,500 · Community ImprovementTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $90,000 · EnvironmentFRESHWATER LAND TRUST — $4,000 · EnvironmentMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $17,500 · Arts & CultureTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC — $11,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA BIRMINGHAM INC — $8,500 · Arts & CultureBirmingham Historical Society — $8,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $7,500 · Arts & CultureJAMES WHITES FORT — $3,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,601,200Health$211,500Education$211,000Human Services$97,500Community Improvement$95,500Environment$94,000Arts & Culture$73,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $109,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $90,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $53,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL — $48,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $45,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $40,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSKYLINE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION — $28,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC — $27,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC — $27,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation — $27,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDarlington School Inc — $25,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $25,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $23,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc — $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi State University Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM SWIM LEAGUE — $18,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc — $18,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetI3 ACADEMY — $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY — $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION — $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $13,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGLENWOOD INC — $12,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM - SUNRISE FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKings Home Inc — $10,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL — $9,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE — $9,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC — $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHER BRYAN MISSION — $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC — $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetChrist Health Center Inc — $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Brook City Schools Foundation — $8,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY — $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA BIRMINGHAM INC — $8,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBirmingham Historical Society — $8,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRotaract Club of Birmingham Foundation — $7,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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 HIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama
  • Who funds THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL
  • Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC
  • Who funds SKYLINE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC
  • Who funds LINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC
  • Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation
  • Who funds Darlington School Inc
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC
  • Who funds STAIR OF BIRMINGHAM
  • Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc
  • Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM SWIM LEAGUE
  • Who funds Cahaba River Society Inc
  • Who funds I3 ACADEMY
  • Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY
  • Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER

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.

The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL110.5× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · The Hackney Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable 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 Dunn-French 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
    28report 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 Dunn-French Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dunn-French 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 232 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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