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Dutch Bros Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
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 2024.

Health$17MYouth Development$1.6MHuman Services$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MRecreation & Sports$942kEducation$938kFood & Nutrition$907kPhilanthropy$843kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
$2,500,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION$2,500,000
GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL$75,129
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 (FY17–23, $948k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%SIERRA VISTA CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 15%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $10k → 9%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $20k → 9%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $10k → 15%HELPING HANDS INTERNATIONAL: $27k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $10k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $50k → 10%MOTIV8 FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%THE PEOPLE'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%RYAN HOUSE: $59k → 11%HEARTS WITH A MISSION: $15k → 13%EDDY HOUSE: $10k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%GENERATEHOPE INC: $20k → 11%GOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION: $7k → 14%CITY HOUSE INC: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORIMPACT: $7k → 10%CASA SUPPORT COUNCIL FOR PIMA COUNTY INC: $10k → 15%CASA OF MARION COUNTY: $20k → 14%WOMEN'S CENTER - YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 12%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $10k → 19%CASA OF MARION COUNTY: $16k → 14%SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $8k → 9%LAVEEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%KIDS' MEALS INC: $50k → 16%OPTIMIST CLUB OF HILLSBORO OREGON: $10k → 8%SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $7k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION: $10k → 8%ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $10k → 13%ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC: $15k → 13%ENVIRONMENTAL ALTERNATIVES: $8k → 18%THRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED OUT: $25k → 11%THRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED OUT: $25k → 11%ADELANTE MUJERES: $10k → 8%LATINO NETWORK: $50k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $10k → 12%JOSEPHINE COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 18%HEARTS WITH A MISSION: $10k → 18%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 12%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

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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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 178 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

178 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 176 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

178
588

Total granted

$21M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+17%

Still filing today

70%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +2%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN'S BUSINESS CENTERS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $325k · revenue +77%
  • TREVOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $325k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
    one grant, 2020 · $517k · revenue -2%
  • PS
    PHOENIX-TALENT SCHOOL DISTRICT #4
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • NV
    North Valley Knights Booster Clubgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue ×35
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
Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights
2
Court Appointed Special Advocates

The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.

Civil Rights
3
Oregon Casa Network

To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child

Human Services
4
Child Advocacy Center of Coos County

To protect children, support families, and bring hope and healing through compassionate, coordinated, and child-centered advocacy, through specialized programs and services, such as multi-disciplinary team coordination, forensic…

Crime & Legal
5
Jackson County Casa

Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…

Civil Rights
6
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
7
Family Service Association

Building community one family at a time, through compassion, advocacy and comprehensive model services, fostering self-sufficiency and sustainable impacts.

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8
Casa of Eastern Oregon Inc

Casa of eastern oregon is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of abused and neglected children from baker, grant, harney, lake, malheur, union and wallowa counties through volunteer advocacy.

Crime & Legal
9
Casa El Dorado

CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)El Dorado provides advocacy services to abused and neglected children in the Child Welfare System in El Dorado County, California.

Crime & Legal
10
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
11
Family Promise of Santa Clarita Valley

With assistance of volunteers from the community and faith groups, the organization works to assist homeless children and their families to achieve sustainable independence, while offering hope, compassion, and preserving individual…

Housing & Shelter
12
Family Law Casa of King County

Family law casa is committed to positive long-term outcomes for children, families, and communities navigating economic injustice across king county. we advance intersectional equity by providing free advocacy services for children…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Idaho; the most unlike its peers is First Fruits Foundation. 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

460 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 460 of the 777 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)
122
Early backer (in before they grew)
449/460
Grantees still filing
318/460
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION: $7,041,601 · OtherMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATIONOHSU FOUNDATION: $908,319 · OtherOHSU FOUNDATIONGLASSWING INTERNATIONAL: $565,026 · OtherFUNDACION CARCAFE: $552,600 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS CASCADES: $500,000 · Other+104 more: $4,004,166 · Other+104 moreMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,316,384 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC+18 more: $571,823 · Health+18 moreUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $516,650 · PhilanthropyASIAN PACIFIC FUND: $200,000 · PhilanthropyOREGON HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $96,795 · PhilanthropyNorth Valley Knights Booster Club: $200,000 · EducationGrants Pass High School Athletic Booster Club: $120,000 · EducationKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $110,000 · EducationUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $100,000 · EducationJosephine County Educational Fund Inc dba Redwood Foundation for Education: $37,000 · EducationSOCIALLY CONSCIOUS COFFEE DBA GENERATIVE PARTNERS: $25,656 · Education+11 more: $168,100 · EducationRYAN HOUSE: $61,714 · Human ServicesLatino Network: $60,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED OUT: $50,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $40,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF MARION COUNTY INC: $35,347 · Human ServicesHEARTS WITH A MISSION: $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $28,360 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMOTIV8 FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human Services+17 more: $216,146 · Human ServicesTREVOR PROJECT INC: $325,000 · Civil RightsCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF LINN COUNTY INC: $15,411 · Civil RightsVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $20,000 · Civil RightsJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC: $107,500 · Recreation & SportsOregon Futbol Academy (FA): $77,504 · Recreation & SportsOREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsOregon Sports Authority Foundation: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $24,607 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$13,571,712Health$7,888,207Philanthropy$863,445Education$760,756Human Services$726,567Civil Rights$420,411Recreation & Sports$369,611

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,316,384 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $516,650 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetASSOCIATION OF WOMEN'S BUSINESS CENTERS: $325,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $325,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHispanic Heritage Foundation: $325,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC FUND: $200,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ROGUE VALLEY: $137,880 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetGrants Pass High School Athletic Booster Club: $120,000 over 5y, 62% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC: $107,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlbie Aware Inc: $96,641 over 3y, 12% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $82,115 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC - GRANTS PASS co EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: $80,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetOregon Futbol Academy (FA): $77,504 over 3y, 23% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $61,714 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLatino Network: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $55,975 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED: $55,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED OUT: $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOREGON HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetVOICES FOR CASA CHILDREN INC: $46,545 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetOREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $45,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $41,413 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $39,070 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJosephine County Educational Fund Inc dba Redwood Foundation for Education: $37,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCASA OF MARION COUNTY INC: $35,347 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY: $31,412 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPoverello House: $30,912 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTS WITH A MISSION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $28,360 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetSOCIALLY CONSCIOUS COFFEE DBA GENERATIVE PARTNERS: $25,656 over 3y, 34% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW MEXICO: $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLinfield University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGUE RETREAT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

OCF Joseph E Weston Public FoundationOR58.5× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Bonneville Environmental Foundation: 100% of income from government
  • Morrison Child and Family Services: 91% of income from government
  • United Community Action Network: 82% of income from government
  • Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Neighborimpact: 68% of income from government
  • Community Action Organization: 67% of income from government
  • Access: 65% of income from government
  • Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Hearts With a Mission: 51% of income from government
  • Bridge Meadows: 36% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Family Service: 29% of income from government
  • United Way of the Columbia-Willamette: 25% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc: 24% of income from government
  • College Dreams Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Native American Youth and Family Center: 23% of income from government
  • Family Resource Center of Central Oregon: 22% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Latino Network: 15% of income from government
  • Rogue Retreat: 12% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Food for Lane County: 5% of income from government
  • North By Northeast Community Health Center: 4% of income from government
  • Linfield University: 4% of income from government
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
  • Serendipity Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Josephine County Food Bank: 1% of income from government
  • Casa of Marion County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Casa of Linn County Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Columbia Community Mental Health Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Childrens Center: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Seeding Justice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
73report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
9rely on government for over half their income
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 Dutch Bros Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dutch Bros 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 777 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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