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Goulder Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2018
55
Grants FY2018
17
States reached
$723k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

54% of Goulder Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 47 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Goulder Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 50 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

50
’18
40
’19
36
’20
38
’21
45
’22
43
’23
47
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$8.8MEnvironment$1.6MHealth$1.2MFood & Nutrition$769kEducation$639kArts & Culture$626kRecreation & Sports$610kAnimals$569kOther$0
02FY2018 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k9 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $810k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $450k
  • $250k+1 grant · $723k
$20,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT$723,000
FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE$100,000
BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC$100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$50,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$50,000
LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC$50,000
HARBOR HOMES INC$50,000
DESCHUTES BASIN LAND TRUST$50,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$45,000
WNET$45,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$40,000
GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY$40,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$38,500
GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK$35,000
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 (FY18–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEROES ON THE WATER: $15k → 5%SECOND HELPINGS: $20k → 10%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $15k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $15k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $15k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 7%GROWING GARDENS: $5k → 12%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

NH
ND
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 64 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2018, 28 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
35

Total granted

$6.8M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+41%

Still filing today

91%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • Friends of the Columbia Gorge
    6× · 2018–2024 · $445k · revenue +35%
  • SM
    SISKIYOU MOUNTAIN CLUB
    7× · 2018–2024 · $360k · revenue +165%
  • GP
    Great Plains Food Bank
    7× · 2018–2024 · $270k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • BO
    BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT
    one grant, 2018 · $723k
  • MANNA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +141%
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +30%
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
4
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
5
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
8
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
9
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
10
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
11
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
12
Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Portland Medical Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 103 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/86
Grantees still filing
71/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $7,830,051 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD+5 more: $350,000 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT: $723,000 · OtherBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE …Friends of the Columbia Gorge: $445,000 · OtherFriends of the Columbia Gor…OREGON FOOD BANK: $210,000 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKTHE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY (DUMMER ACADEMY): $190,000 · OtherGreat Plains Food Bank: $270,000 · OtherGreat Plains Food BankUNION MISSION INC: $245,000 · OtherUNION MISSION INCMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc: $183,500 · Other+43 more: $1,592,500 · Other+43 moreSISKIYOU MOUNTAIN CLUB: $360,000 · EnvironmentSISKIYOU M…LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS: $195,000 · EnvironmentLEACH GARD…THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE: $168,000 · EnvironmentTHE WETLAN…Deschutes Land Trust: $165,000 · EnvironmentDeschutes …HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentHILTON HEA…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $148,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILD…BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC: $136,400 · EnvironmentBEAVER BRO…TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON: $55,000 · Environment+4 more: $96,000 · Environment+4 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $203,000 · HealthLungstrong Inc: $130,000 · HealthLAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $120,000 · HealthSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $50,000 · HealthHome Health and Hospice Care: $50,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $40,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $38,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $30,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $20,000 · HealthWNET: $173,000 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $145,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $80,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC: $75,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $55,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $43,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $29,250 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $220,000 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $98,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $93,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $60,000 · InternationalHURU INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,000 · International+2 more: $25,000 · InternationalTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $135,000 · AnimalsHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $96,000 · AnimalsRogue Rescue & Sanctuary: $90,000 · AnimalsLOVABLE PAWS RESCUE: $70,000 · AnimalsGRACE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTU: $40,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER NASHUA CORP: $40,000 · Animals
Philanthropy$8,180,051Other$3,859,000Environment$1,473,400Health$891,500Arts & Culture$750,500International$531,000Animals$471,000

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 budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $7,830,051 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge: $445,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetSISKIYOU MOUNTAIN CLUB: $360,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $270,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNION MISSION INC: $245,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $220,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $210,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $203,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLEACH GARDEN FRIENDS: $195,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc: $183,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetWNET: $173,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE: $168,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetDeschutes Land Trust: $165,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $150,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $150,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $148,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetBEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC: $136,400 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLungstrong Inc: $130,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $120,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $115,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $98,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $96,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $93,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRogue Rescue & Sanctuary: $90,000 over 5y, 76% of budgetOREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SPORTS COUNCIL: $80,000 over 4y, 78% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC: $75,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOVABLE PAWS RESCUE: $70,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetREADING RESULTS: $70,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS: $65,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON: $55,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetPORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Columbia Gorge ↗
  • Who funds SISKIYOU MOUNTAIN CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Lungstrong Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Rogue Rescue & Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds OREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SPORTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds Harbor Homes Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOVABLE PAWS RESCUE ↗

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.

Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC31.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Oregon Community Foundation · Heritage Classic Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Bargain Box · The Collins Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Autzen Foundation · Wexford 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 Goulder Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goulder Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Deschutes Land Trust: 46% of income from government
  • Siskiyou Mountain Club: 22% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Trailkeepers of Oregon: 19% of income from government
  • Kairospdx: 19% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens: 6% of income from government
  • Providence Portland Medical Foundation: 5% of income from government
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
  • Portland Center Stage: 1% of income from government
  • Santiam Memorial Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Goulder Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Goulder 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 103 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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