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Gofundmeorg

The organization began active operations in late august 2017 in the advent of hurricane harvey.

$21M
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$1.5M
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$25MInternational$23MFood & Nutrition$19MHuman Services$14MYouth Development$5.7MArts & Culture$4.1MPhilanthropy$3.6MCivil Rights$3.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 75 grants below total $7,203,123, the rows itemized in this filing. The $20,550,244 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,347,121 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+7 grants · $4.8M
$25,973
Median grant
20
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHANGE REACTION$1,500,000
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$900,000
INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY$670,000
211 LA$600,000
COMITE CIVICO DEL VALLE INC$512,140
PATCHWORK INDY INC$332,500
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE$289,999
PROJECT M25 INC - DBA WELCOMENST$189,500
BRAWNER EMPLOYEES FAMILY SURVIVAL FUND CORP$162,554
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE$116,500
WELCOME NEIGHBOR STL (START INC)$110,000
UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA$100,000
STEP UP$100,000
FLINTRIDGE CENTER$97,950
HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY$82,250
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 (FY19–25, $13.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY: $251k → 11%NO ONE LEFT BEHIND INC: $50k → 9%USAHELLO: $50k → 8%REFUGEE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $50k → 14%PROJECT M25 INC - DBA WELCOMENST: $50k → 8%PATCHWORK INDY INC: $333k → 16%REFUGEE ASSISTANCE ALLIANCE: $50k → 10%GLOBAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND ASSISTANCE: $50k → 12%REACT DC: $60k → 6%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $80k → 7%UVALDE WE RISE FUND - NCF: $108k → 11%TARJIMLY: $125k → 14%REACT DC: $100k → 19%PROJECT M25 INC - DBA WELCOMENST: $190k → 11%HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY: $82k → 11%HEARTS AND HOMES FOR REFUGEES: $50k → 9%SHE SHOULD RUN: $50k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $851k → 15%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $100k → 12%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $50k → 14%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $50k → 8%LUMINUS NETWORK INC: $50k → 6%PROJECT M25 INC - DBA WELCOMENST: $165k → 11%HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY: $70k → 11%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $621k → 15%HOME FOR REFUGEES USA: $150k → 10%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $111k → 14%FEDERAL EMPOLYEE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FUND: $100k → 9%HOME FOR REFUGEES USA: $150k → 10%AFGHANS FOR A BETTER TOMORROW: $75k → 11%AFGHAN-AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $75k → 6%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $469k → 7%AFGHAN COALITION: $75k → 10%DEFINE AMERICAN: $55k → 14%MUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY - SOCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $75k → 9%NIGHT MINISTRY: $111k → 14%FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER: $75k → 6%UKRAINIAN AMERICAN HOUSE: $225k → 12%GOLD HOUSE FEATURES CHALLENGE: $555k → 14%UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON STATE: $300k → 9%SELFRELIANCE ASSOCIATION: $300k → 14%SHE'S THE FIRST: $150k → 17%THE CHANGE REACTION: $1.5M → 14%SEFA WINDWARD URBAN FOOD SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $359k → 17%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $464k → 14%SEFA WINDWARD URBAN FOOD SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $244k → 17%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $51k → 14%211 LA: $600k → 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

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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.
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 29% of Gofundmeorg’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 34% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 14%.

Gofundmeorglessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 48% 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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58M · 122 repeat orgs$34M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

122 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 101 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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529

Total granted

$58M
$28M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+8%

Still filing today

92%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationHealthOther
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

  • Feeding America
    4× · 2019–2022 · $8.4M · revenue +77%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $8.3M · revenue ×11
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +34% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • TU
    TIME'S UP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $2.6M
  • M
    MILES4MIGRANTS
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue -76%
  • ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES
    one grant, 2023 · $555k · revenue -37%
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.

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Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
2
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
3
Aapi Equity Alliance

Aapi equity alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations that advocates for the rights and needs of the asian and pacific islander (api) community in the greater los angeles area, with particular focus on low-income, immigrant,…

Human Services
4
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.

Philanthropy
5
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
6
Asian Pacific Institute On Gender-Based Violence

Our mission is to disrupt gender-based violence, which causes physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and economic harm within AAPI communities throughout the U.S. and its territories.

Arts & Culture
7
Ayuda Inc

Ayuda's mission is to advocate for low-income immigrants through direct legal, social and language services, training and outreach in washington, d.c., maryland, and virginia. we envision a community where all immigrants succeed and thrive…

Human Services
8
Asian Inc

The core mission of ASIAN, Inc. is the empowerment of the Asian American Community to achieve social equality by reducing dependency to create and expand access to opportunities in the areas of business development, housing and education.…

Community Improvement
9
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California

Ajsocal is a social justice organization that protects and strengthens the rights and dignity of asian american and pacific islander (aapi) communities, especially those that are most disadvantaged.

Crime & Legal
10
Caaav Voice Inc

CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.

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Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California

Our mission is to cultivate philanthropists to invest in organizations that empower under-served asian and pacific islanders (api) to prosper by 1) building healthier communities, 2) developing api leaders, 3) creating a stronger api…

Unclassified
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Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc

The asylum seeker advocacy project (asap) believes that asylum seekers can make great change by standing together. we provide our membership of asylum seekers with legal and community support. and we work with our members to build a more…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity; the most unlike its peers is Bessie Coleman Aviation All-stars. 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

656 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. 656 of the 716 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)
129
Early backer (in before they grew)
637/656
Grantees still filing
362/656
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $16,685,756 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATIO…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,400,800 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROP…+12 more: $2,599,133 · Philanthropy+12 moreAIRBNBORG INC: $19,076,167 · Public Safety & DisasterAIRBNBORG INC+6 more: $564,213 · Public Safety & DisasterWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,335,104 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KI…Save The Children Federation Inc: $864,613 · InternationalSave The Childre…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $614,356 · International+23 more: $4,280,820 · International+23 moreTIME'S UP FOUNDATION: $2,617,282 · OtherTIME'S UP FOUNDATIONTIME'S UP FOUNDATION: $2,251,871 · OtherTIME'S UP FOUNDATIONIMMIGRANT FAMILIES TOGETHER FOUNDATION: $1,538,643 · OtherIMMIGRANT FAMILIES TOGETH…MILES4MIGRANTS: $1,100,000 · Other+87 more: $14,305,960 · Other+87 moreTHE CHANGE REACTION: $1,500,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHANGE RE…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION: $1,472,060 · Human ServicesBIG BROTHERS …URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $615,016 · Human ServicesTHE INFORMATION AND REFERRAL FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $600,000 · Human ServicesGOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $565,000 · Human ServicesIRCS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesHELLO NEIGHBOR: $475,500 · Human ServicesETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $468,750 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $464,000 · Human ServicesWELCOMENST INC: $444,500 · Human Services+40 more: $4,745,111 · Human Services+40 moreFeeding America: $8,438,358 · Food & NutritionFeeding A…+3 more: $249,373 · Food & NutritionPasadena City College Foundation: $900,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $461,959 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $150,000 · EducationCAL COAST CARES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationMOBILIZING MSD ALUMNI INC: $78,647 · EducationGIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $76,000 · Education+2 more: $115,000 · Education
Philanthropy$20,685,689Public Safety & Disaster$19,640,380International$14,094,893Other$21,813,756Human Services$11,849,937Food & Nutrition$8,687,731Education$1,881,606

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 budgetAIRBNBORG INC: $19,076,167 over 3y, 20% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $16,685,756 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFeeding America: $8,438,358 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,335,104 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetTIME'S UP FOUNDATION: $2,251,871 over 3y, 68% of budgetIMMIGRANT FAMILIES TOGETHER FOUNDATION: $1,538,643 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION: $1,472,060 over 2y, 39% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,400,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILES4MIGRANTS: $1,100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPasadena City College Foundation: $900,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $864,613 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $615,016 over 3y, 17% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $615,016 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $614,356 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INFORMATION AND REFERRAL FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $600,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $565,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES: $555,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $554,207 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $554,207 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIRCS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INC: $500,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPROPEL INC: $500,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetHELLO NEIGHBOR: $475,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $468,750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALIGHT: $466,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $464,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $464,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $461,959 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWELCOMENST INC: $444,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $440,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVECINA: $440,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $418,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: $405,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $403,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetImmigrant Advocate Response Collaborative Inc: $400,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $390,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGirls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership: $377,500 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetUS COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $349,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $315,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUKRAINIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON: $300,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSelfreliance Association: $300,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHOME FOR REFUGEES USA: $300,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetBrave Trails: $279,732 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME PROJECT: $278,434 over 6y, 15% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEastern Sierra Conservation Corps: $233,809 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetUKRAINIAN AMERICAN HOUSE: $225,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $225,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc IncDC87.7× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc · National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development · The Asian American Foundation · Asian Pacific Fund · Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum · Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California · Wallace H Coulter Foundation · Islamic Relief USA · Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · Wallace H Coulter Trust · Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote · Asian Law Caucus

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • Refugee Assistance Alliance Inc: 92% of income from government
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services: 37% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • National Center for Victims of Crime Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Girls Make Beats Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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 Gofundmeorg?

Find your warmest path to Gofundmeorg 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 716 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 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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