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Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$320k
Granted FY2025still arriving
70
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$216kHealth$216kHuman Services$164kFood & Nutrition$150kEnvironment$126kReligion$94kYouth Development$89kOther$0
02FY2025 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k65 grants · $268k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
$4,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
Individual grant recipient$6,747
Individual grant recipient$6,683
Individual grant recipient$6,078
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%STEPS: $3k → 9%The Center for Family Justice: $5k → 9%The Center for Family Justice: $5k → 9%The Center for Family Justice: $5k → 9%Covenant to Care for Children Inc: $3k → 11%The Center for Family Justice: $5k → 9%Covenant to Care for Children: $3k → 11%Bridge House Inc: $4k → 9%Life Bridge Community Services: $3k → 9%Life Bridge Community Services: $3k → 9%Filling in the Blanks: $6k → 9%Filling in the Blanks: $6k → 9%Filling in the Blanks: $5k → 9%Human Services Council Inc: $5k → 9%Family & Childrens Agency: $5k → 9%Family & Childrens Agency: $5k → 9%Family & Childrens Agency: $5k → 9%Family & Childrens Agency: $5k → 9%Filling in the Blanks: $5k → 9%Filling in the Blanks: $5k → 9%Family & Childrens Agency: $3k → 9%Filling in the Blanks: $3k → 9%Family & Childrens Agency: $3k → 9%Regional Hospice: $10k → 9%Regional Hospice: $5k → 9%Ann's Place: $3k → 9%Regional Hospice: $3k → 9%Ann's Place: $3k → 9%Family & Children's Agency: $3k → 9%Ann's Place: $3k → 9%Under One Roof Inc: $2k → 9%Domestic Violence Crisis Center: $8k → 9%Domestic Violence Crisis Center: $8k → 9%Domestic Violence Crisis Center: $8k → 9%Domestic Violence Crisis Center: $8k → 9%Domestic Violence Crisis Center: $8k → 9%St Joseph's Parenting Center: $5k → 9%St Joseph's Parenting Center: $5k → 9%Domestic Violence Crisis Center: $5k → 9%Domestic Violence Crisis Center: $3k → 9%St Joseph's Parenting Center: $5k → 9%Domestic Violence Crisis Center: $2k → 9%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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
NC
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 76%.

Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 126 repeat orgs$457k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

126 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126
108

Total granted

$2.7M
$388k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

37%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PT
    PERSON TO PERSON INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +19%
  • WY
    WILTON YOUTH COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +208%
  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • WL
    WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +9%
  • CH
    CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • UO
    University of Botswana
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
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
Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health
2
Connecticut Counseling Centers Inc

To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.

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3
Whitney Center Inc

Whitney center's mission, excellence in senior living, is grounded in the principal that all elders, regardless of physical or cognitive limitation, have the right to engage in life and seek fulfillment. our ideals of self-determination,…

Human Services
4
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…

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5
Children in Placement Inc

The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the connecticut foster care system.

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6
Norwalk Community Health Center

To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.

Health
7
United Services Inc

United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…

Human Services
8
United Way of Connecticut Inc

United way of connecticut is proud to be a trusted and vital resource for help and information about what the people of connecticut need. we respond to requests for food, housing, health care, child care, child development resources,…

Philanthropy
9
Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.

Crime & Legal
10
Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services
11
Community Health Services Inc

To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.

Health
12
Wood River Health Services Inc

To improve the health and well-being of our community by providing high quality, coordinated health and support services, accessible to all.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is People 1ST Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 256 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/80
Grantees still filing
47/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+155 more: $2,277,147 · Other+155 moreDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $47,500 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $28,500 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesREGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesANNS PLACE INC: $8,500 · Human Services+7 more: $30,500 · Human ServicesWILTON YOUTH COUNCIL INC: $52,500 · HealthKEYSTONE HOUSE INC: $42,500 · HealthVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $40,000 · HealthLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC: $14,000 · HealthTHE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · HealthPOSITIVE DIRECTIONS-THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING INC: $11,300 · HealthWAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK INC: $9,000 · Health+3 more: $13,500 · HealthWILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $60,248 · Arts & CultureThe Norwalk Symphony Society Inc: $16,500 · Arts & CultureMOCA CT INC: $15,500 · Arts & CultureTHROWN STONE THEATRE COMPANY: $15,500 · Arts & CultureNeighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc: $11,500 · Arts & CultureORCHESTRA LUMOS INC: $9,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $9,800 · Arts & CultureWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · EducationHIGHER EDGE INC: $32,000 · EducationA BETTER CHANCE OF WILTON INC: $5,521 · EducationHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc: $3,500 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationPERSON TO PERSON INC: $63,500 · PhilanthropyWILTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $25,500 · Housing & ShelterMALTA HOUSE INC: $24,500 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $5,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,277,147Human Services$197,500Health$196,800Arts & Culture$138,048Education$93,521Philanthropy$83,500Housing & Shelter$70,500

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 budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $63,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $60,248 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetWILTON YOUTH COUNCIL INC: $52,500 over 8y, 14% of budgetWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $47,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKEYSTONE HOUSE INC: $42,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Community Nursery School Inc: $33,406 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetWOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC: $32,750 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetHIGHER EDGE INC: $32,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetGLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA): $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $28,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $25,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC: $24,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROWAN CENTER INC: $20,400 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWILTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Norwalk Symphony Society Inc: $16,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetBRIDGEPORT YOUTH LACROSSE INC: $16,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY REENTRY INC: $15,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMOCA CT INC: $15,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHROWN STONE THEATRE COMPANY: $15,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF SOUTHERN CT INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEARTHPLACE INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNeighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc: $11,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPOSITIVE DIRECTIONS-THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING INC: $11,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDOMUS KIDS INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORCHESTRA LUMOS INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetANNS PLACE INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED MIANUS CHAPTER: $7,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT INVENTION CONVENTION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE OF WILTON INC: $5,521 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNORWALKSTAMFORD GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds WILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WILTON YOUTH COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Community Nursery School Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER EDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA) ↗
  • Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗

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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Near and Far Asso…New Canaan Community …Peoples United Commun…Eversource Energy Fou…Alexander Family Foun…The Aiello Charitable…The Inner-City Founda…Connecticut Humanitie…The Bauer Family Foun…Stamford Rotary Trust…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT78.4× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Bauer Family Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation

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 Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Bridge House Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Keystone House Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Operation Fuel Incorporated: 51% of income from government
  • Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Covenant to Care for Children Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
  • Community Resources for Justice Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Community Services Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • Human Services Council Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Liberation Programs Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Steps Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc: 17% of income from government
  • The Discovery Museum Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Thrown Stone Theatre Company: 13% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Positive Directions-the Center for Prevention & Counseling Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Higher Edge Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Rvnahealth Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Youth Symphony Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Danbury Music Centre: 1% of income from government
  • Wilton Historical Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Orchestra Lumos Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wilton Library Association Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Healing Meals Foundation Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

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 256 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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