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Gordon Flesch Charitable 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.

$190k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Health$173kHuman Services$140kFood & Nutrition$94kYouth Development$74kHousing & Shelter$65kEducation$29kEmployment$27kRecreation & Sports$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$42k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Casa Guadalupe Ed Center$8,000
Open Arms Christian Ministries Inc$6,000
NAMI Brown County$5,000
Between Friends Food Pantry$5,000
Journeys the Road Home$5,000
St Gregory of Nyssa$5,000
Parke County Resource Center$5,000
Shepherds College$5,000
Lazarus House$5,000
Heads up Fox Cities$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Rebuilding Together Muscatine$5,000
Beyond Blessed Food Pantry$5,000
Kandu Industries$5,000
Neighborhood Food Pantries$5,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Horizons Unlimited of Palo Alto County: $5k → 11%Cafe on Vine: $2k → 12%Mr Bob's Under the Bridge Inc: $5k → 6%Band of Blue: $4k → 10%Common Threads Family Resource Cent: $5k → 10%Healing Hands Outreach Center: $5k → 18%Wabash Center: $4k → 19%Adaptive Sports Connection: $4k → 5%Cornerstone of Hope: $5k → 15%Neighborhood Food Pantries: $5k → 7%Call to Freedom: $5k → 9%Lutheran Services in Iowa: $2k → 7%Discovery Living: $1k → 9%Community Clothes Closet: $5k → 6%Hometown Heroes Inc: $5k → 6%Casa Guadalupe Ed Center: $8k → 6%SOAR Fox Cities: $5k → 7%The Cooper House Inc: $4k → 5%The Caring Center: $1k → 5%Stone Belt: $2k → 18%The Wabash Independent Living Learn: $3k → 19%Loaves Fishes Community Services: $4k → 7%Wisconsibs Inc: $4k → 7%Envision Unlimited: $5k → 14%Furniture Mission of South Dakota: $5k → 9%Village Diaper Bank: $5k → 10%Heads up Fox Cities: $5k → 11%Midwest Food Bank: $1k → 16%Lazarus House: $5k → 8%Operation North Pole: $3k → 14%Zachariahs Acres: $2k → 5%Open Arms Christian Ministries Inc: $6k → 18%OccuPaws Guide Dog Association: $5k → 10%Journeys the Road Home: $5k → 14%Family Mentor Foundation: $5k → 15%Mutual Ground: $3k → 8%The Bike Lady: $2k → 15%Cedar Valley Hospice: $3k → 17%South Milwaukee Human Concerns: $3k → 17%The Sewing Machine Project: $2k → 10%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.

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 24% of Gordon Flesch Charitable 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. Read by recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 32% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 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.

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Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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2
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
3
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
4
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
5
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.

Human Services
6
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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7
Family Promise of the Chippewa Valley Inc

Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.

Human Services
8
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
9
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
10
House of Hope Green Bay Inc

House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…

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11
Waunakee Neighborhood Connection

Provide programs and resources that address financial security and social connections by engaging neighbors to support and empower one another.

Human Services
12
Homebound Meals Inc

The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brittany Corcoran Scholarship Fund. 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 backsteadyAddiction Recovery ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Social ServicesSchool Parent OrganizationsAffordable Housing Construc…Youth Development CentersUnited Way AffiliatesSenior Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Local Food System Organizat…Youth Development ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Women & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsCancer Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Food PantriesElementary Literacy TutoringEquine Therapy ProgramsYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/143
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,422

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

134 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 134 of the 196 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/134
Grantees still filing
90/134
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+104 more — $355,930 · Other+104 moreCASA GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $6,000 · Human Services+38 more — $140,100 · Human Services+38 moreMCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH — $5,000 · HealthMCCROSSAN…COMPASSIONATE HOME HEALTH CARE LLC — $5,000 · HealthCOMPASSIO…Badger Childhood Cancer Network Inc — $5,000 · HealthBadger Ch…AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC — $5,000 · HealthAUDIO & B…EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY — $5,000 · HealthEXCEPTION…COVEY INC — $5,000 · HealthCOVEY INCEISENHOWER CENTER INC — $5,000 · HealthEISENHOWE…Family Health Partnership Clinic — $4,000 · HealthFamily He…OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC — $4,000 · HealthOLD IRVIN…CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC — $2,500 · HealthWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $2,500 · HealthBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People — $2,500 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Health+2 more — $2,700 · HealthREBUILDING TOGETHER MUSCATINE COUNTY INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterPILLARS INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOUSING INITIATIVES INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterJourney 21 Inc — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterEIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHome of the Sparrow Inc — $3,500 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT HOME INC — $3,500 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $2,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterOSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY PANTRY INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionPARKE COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER — $5,000 · Food & NutritionBETWEEN FRIENDS FOOD PANTRY OF SUGAR GROVE — $5,000 · Food & NutritionKENNETH BUTLER MEMORIAL SOUP KITCHEN INC — $4,500 · Food & NutritionGROW IT FORWARD INC — $4,000 · Food & NutritionPOINTER PANTRY — $3,500 · Food & NutritionMILLION MEAL MOVEMENT INC — $3,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC — $2,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK — $2,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $2,000 · Food & NutritionBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE 180 ZONE — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRY PIE — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIKES FOR KIDS WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentRUN THE RACE CLUB — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentROCK HOUSE KIDS — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMS ON HORSEBACK — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentBERNIE'S BOOK BANK — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentKANDU INDUSTRIES INC — $5,000 · EmploymentNORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $4,000 · EmploymentHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC — $3,000 · EmploymentJANUS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $3,000 · EmploymentINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · EmploymentTHE WORKSHOP — $1,000 · Employment
Other$355,930Human Services$154,100Health$55,700Housing & Shelter$37,500Food & Nutrition$37,000Youth Development$37,000Employment$18,500

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 budgetECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnvision Unlimited — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYDM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSouthside Hope Community Development Corporation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNeighborhood Food Pantries — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER MUSCATINE COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCALL TO FREEDOM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMETOWN HEROES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY PANTRY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREACHING THE NATIONS INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE HOME HEALTH CARE LLC — $5,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCOMMON THREADS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINN AREA EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 180 ZONE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VILLAGE DIAPER BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHORIZONS UNLIMITED OF PALO ALTO COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBadger Childhood Cancer Network Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of North Central Iowa — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING INITIATIVES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMR BOBS UNDER THE BRIDGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJourney 21 Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARKE COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFAIRFIELD CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBETWEEN FRIENDS FOOD PANTRY OF SUGAR GROVE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTRY PIE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANDU INDUSTRIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOVEY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOAR FOX CITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRIVERVIEW GARDENS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEADSUP FOX CITIES CORP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Community Foundation …US Ventureschmidt Fam…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Alliant Energy Founda…J J Keller Foundation…Lsb FoundationGreater Green Bay Com…United Way Fox Cities…Theda and Tamblin Cla…Otto Bremer TrustThe Bersted Foundation
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI54.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Lsb Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · The Bersted 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 Gordon Flesch Charitable 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
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

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    How do I get to Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Gordon Flesch Charitable 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 196 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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