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Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc

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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
80
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$1.9MArts & Culture$1.7MInternational$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.2MEnvironment$776kHealth$749kYouth Development$690kOther$0
02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $473k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.9M
$10,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIRL RISING$100,000
NABU GLOBAL INC$100,000
AFYA FOUNDATION$100,000
BARD COLLEGE$100,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$100,000
GRAMEEN AMERICA INC$100,000
V-DAY$100,000
PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC$100,000
PROJECT DRAWDOWN$100,000
ROOM TO READ$100,000
FEMME HOUSE$75,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC$75,000
DREAMYARD PROJECT INC$75,000
NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL$75,000
GLYNWOOD CENTER INC$75,000
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 (FY19–24, $480k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY WATER: $5k → 4%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $3k → 9%SAFE HORIZON INC: $50k → 17%AFYA FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $5k → 17%The Innocence Project inc: $3k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $5k → 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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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 15% of Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc’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.

Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.5M · 74 repeat orgs$777k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
26

Total granted

$9.5M
$604k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+4%

Still filing today

96%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • RT
    ROOM TO READ
    5× · 2020–2024 · $502k · revenue +7%
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $475k · revenue +33%
  • TP
    THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -22%
  • NY
    New York Philharmonic Symphony of New York Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • SH
    SAFE HORIZON INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +4%

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
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
8
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc

Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.

Food & Nutrition
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
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Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Community Trust and the most unlike its peers is Backline Care Inc. 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 backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Faith-Based Social ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Jewish Community Organizati…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Christian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Addiction Recovery ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity Food PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsAffordable Housing Developm…Environmental Conservation …Elementary Literacy TutoringPregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and Pantries
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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/112
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,453

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

110 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. 110 of the 120 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)
108/110
Grantees still filing
66/110
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROOM TO READ — $502,000 · EducationROOM TO READBARD COLLEGE — $400,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGENABU GLOBAL INC — $335,000 · EducationNABU GLOBAL INCPROJECT DRAWDOWN — $285,000 · EducationPROJECT DRAWDOWNGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP — $210,000 · EducationGREENWAVE ORGANIZATI…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC — $195,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF …+7 more — $188,000 · Education+7 moreTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $450,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMON…THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $265,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DREAMYARD …NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION — $215,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INDEP…THE 19TH NEWS — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 19TH NEWSFEMME HOUSE — $150,000 · Arts & CultureFEMME HOUSEFreaks Action Network Inc — $69,350 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $159,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL — $431,350 · OtherNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOLSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $285,000 · OtherSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONBELIEVE IN STUDENTS INC — $255,000 · OtherBELIEVE IN STUDENTS INCTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $394,500 · OtherTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCGLYNWOOD CENTER INC — $251,000 · OtherGLYNWOOD CENTER INCCONNECT TO COMPETE INC — $250,000 · OtherCONNECT TO COMPETE INCGRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $305,000 · OtherGRAMEEN AMERICA INCFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $150,000 · OtherV-Day — $410,000 · OtherV-DayTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $237,500 · OtherTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECTCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $250,000 · OtherCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCEAST SIDE HOUSE INC — $225,000 · Other+39 more — $894,666 · Other+39 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PH…THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $50,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITYVEST INC — $45,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $105,500 · Philanthropy+4 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $475,000 · HealthBACKLINE CARE INC — $200,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $45,000 · HealthFOXG1 Research Inc — $31,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $30,000 · Health+5 more — $52,500 · HealthGirl Rising — $405,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $140,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $95,000 · InternationalURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM — $50,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $45,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $40,000 · International+3 more — $37,000 · InternationalSKY HIGH FARM INC — $356,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC — $200,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $40,000 · Food & NutritionNEW ROOTS FOUNDATION INC — $24,500 · Food & Nutrition+9 more — $86,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$2,115,000Arts & Culture$1,458,350Other$4,339,016Philanthropy$1,200,500Health$833,500International$812,000Food & Nutrition$707,000

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ — $502,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $475,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL — $431,350 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetV-Day — $410,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetGirl Rising — $405,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $394,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSKY HIGH FARM INC — $356,500 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetNABU GLOBAL INC — $335,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $305,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN — $285,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $285,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $265,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBELIEVE IN STUDENTS INC — $255,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC — $251,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECT TO COMPETE INC — $250,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $237,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC — $225,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION — $215,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP — $210,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBACKLINE CARE INC — $200,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC — $200,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC — $195,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFEMME HOUSE — $150,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $108,333 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget350ORG — $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFreaks Action Network Inc — $69,350 over 4y, 36% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITYVEST INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAMPO GARZON INC — $40,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $40,000 over 2y, 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.

Jewish Communal FundNY23.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Tides Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Platt Family Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Rockefeller 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 Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc 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 · 90%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
23report 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

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How do I get to Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc 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 120 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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