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Finnegan Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
100
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$11MYouth Development$2.3MHuman Services$1.4MHealth$1.1MEmployment$740kCommunity Improvement$690kReligion$500kPhilanthropy$327kOther$0
02FY2024 · 100 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $2.9M
$30,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A BETTER CHICAGO$200,000
NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM$200,000
NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS$105,000
IMENTOR CHICAGO$100,000
LEAP INNOVATIONS$100,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$100,000
BOTTOM LINE$100,000
HOPE CHICAGO$100,000
START EARLY$100,000
METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES$100,000
YEAR UP$100,000
TEACH FOR ALL$100,000
KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS$100,000
THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT$100,000
CITY YEAR$100,000
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 (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 22%ASPIRITECH: $5k → 8%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 14%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $15k → 14%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $15k → 14%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $15k → 14%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $15k → 14%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $15k → 14%ASPIRITECH: $5k → 14%ASPIRITECH: $5k → 14%ASPIRITECH: $5k → 14%ASPIRITECH: $5k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $40k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $30k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $30k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $25k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER: $20k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER: $20k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $35k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $35k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $35k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $20k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $30k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $30k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $250k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $200k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $200k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $200k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $200k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 14%LEAP INNOVATIONS: $100k → 14%LEAP INNOVATIONS: $100k → 14%LEAP INNOVATIONS: $100k → 14%LEAP INNOVATIONS: $100k → 14%LEAP INNOVATIONS: $100k → 14%MCGAW YMCA: $30k → 14%MCGAW YMCA: $30k → 14%MCGAW YMCA: $30k → 14%MCGAW YMCA: $30k → 14%MCGAW YMCA: $30k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $15k → 14%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
DC
LA
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 14% of Finnegan Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 96%.

Finnegan Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 101 repeat orgs$411k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

101 repeat relationships: 95 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
11

Total granted

$19M
$261k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
-6%

Still filing today

81%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AB
    A Better Chicago
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +76%
  • EH
    Endeavor Health Clinical Operations
    3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +12%
  • NN
    NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $525k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • SE
    START EARLY (FORMERLY OUNCE OF PREVENTION)
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • NL
    NEW LEADERS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • Northwestern University
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +14%
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
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
2
Chicago Education Partnership

To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…

Education
3
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
Citizen Schools Inc

In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…

Education
6
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
7
Chicago Collegiate Inc

To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.

Education
8
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
9
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
10
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
11
College Summit Inc

College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…

Education
12
High Jump

High jump is a tuition free, two-year enrichment program for talented and motivated middle school students with limited family income. the students attend classes for a five week session during the summers before 7th and 8th grade; as well…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education; the most unlike its peers is Police for 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

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 116 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/93
Grantees still filing
63/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $525,000 · EducationNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLSTEACH FOR ALL INC: $500,000 · EducationTEACH FOR ALL INCKIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS: $500,000 · EducationKIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLSACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $500,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIPTeach for America Inc: $500,000 · EducationTeach for America IncCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $400,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $330,000 · EducationLawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $325,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $325,000 · EducationBETTER FUTURE FORWARD INC: $300,000 · EducationONE MILLION DEGREES: $295,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $275,000 · Education+27 more: $3,023,500 · Education+27 moreIMENTOR CHICAGO: $500,000 · OtherIMENTOR CHICAGOYEAR UP: $500,000 · OtherYEAR UPBOTTOM LINE: $500,000 · OtherBOTTOM LINESTART EARLY: $400,000 · OtherSTART EARLYCITY YEAR INC: $400,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCYOUTH JOB CENTER INC: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $215,000 · Other+38 more: $3,200,500 · Other+38 moreA Better Chicago: $1,050,000 · Human ServicesA Better ChicagoMetropolitan Family Services: $500,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Fam…LEAP Innovations: $500,000 · Human ServicesLEAP InnovationsCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYO…Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc: $150,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Chris…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $145,000 · Human Services+7 more: $284,500 · Human Services+7 moreONEGOAL: $450,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INC: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $190,000 · Youth DevelopmentInternational Neighborhood Collaborative: $110,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $600,000 · HealthErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $145,000 · HealthALLIANCECHICAGO: $95,000 · HealthTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyEvanston Community Foundation: $125,000 · PhilanthropyEVANSTONSKOKIE DISTRICT 65 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (FOUNDATION 65): $100,000 · PhilanthropyFOREFRONT: $40,820 · Philanthropy+3 more: $13,500 · PhilanthropyLIFT INC: $165,000 · EmploymentSKILLS FOR CHICAGO: $125,000 · EmploymentCURT'S CAFE: $105,000 · Employment
Education$7,798,500Other$6,015,500Human Services$2,794,500Youth Development$1,270,000Health$840,000Philanthropy$579,320Employment$395,000

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 budgetA Better Chicago: $1,050,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $525,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS: $500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLEAP Innovations: $500,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $500,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetONEGOAL: $450,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $400,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSTART EARLY: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $400,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $330,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $325,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $325,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH JOB CENTER INC: $300,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetBETTER FUTURE FORWARD INC: $300,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC: $300,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES: $295,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $250,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS: $250,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC: $240,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINTRINSIC SCHOOLS: $235,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLEADING EDUCATORS INC: $210,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION: $205,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC: $200,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $190,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLIFT INC: $165,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $165,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTeachers Supporting Teachers: $150,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $145,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $140,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Partnership for College Completion: $140,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetEVANSTON SCHOLARS: $135,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER: $130,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO: $125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEvanston Community Foundation: $125,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSPARK PROGRAM INC: $120,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBOOKS AND BREAKFAST: $120,000 over 5y, 4.8% 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 A Better Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
  • Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
  • Who funds KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds LEAP Innovations ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds START EARLY ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH JOB CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTER FUTURE FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION PIONEERS ↗
  • Who funds NEW LEADERS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTRINSIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds LEADING EDUCATORS INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗

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.

Arie and Ida Crown MemorialIL65.9× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Cme Group Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Osa Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Vivo Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur 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 Finnegan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Finnegan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Saga Innovations Inc: 28% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
24report 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, 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Finnegan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Finnegan Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 116 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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