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Hackett Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$633kEducation$368kPhilanthropy$166kArts & Culture$109kReligion$109kYouth Development$78kHuman Services$53kRecreation & Sports$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$11,040
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON$10,000
THE ROSE$10,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$10,000
ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC$5,000
DOMINICAN SISTERS OF HOUSTON$5,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON$5,000
NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC$5,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$4,500
EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALE$4,000
METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,500
TEXAS 2036$2,500
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,500
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 (FY17–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEAD THE WAY FUND: $500 → 6%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF CORPUS CHRISTI: $500 → 17%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $3k → 13%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $5k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON: $5k → 16%THE WOMENS HOME: $3k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON: $3k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON: $500 → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $500 → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $100 → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 16%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
RI
CA
KY
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Hackett Family Foundation’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.

Hackett Family Foundationlessmore 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 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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 53 repeat orgs$540k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
109

Total granted

$1.1M
$530k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+16%

Still filing today

60%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AFP FOUNDATION FOR PHILANTHROPY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +43%
  • MM
    MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS
    5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +99%
  • United Way of Greater Houston
    5× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • IU
    INDIANA UNIVERSITY - PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • OM
    ONE MINDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $76k · revenue +219%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +30%

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
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
6
Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

8
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

9
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

10
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

11
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
12
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%3%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr10%21%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%5%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr13%33%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/119
the rest of the field
15%
20,232/136,685

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

103 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. 103 of the 174 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/103
Grantees still filing
69/103
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INDIANA UNIVERSITY - PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS — $200,000 · OtherINDIANA UNIVERSITY - PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLISAFP FOUNDATION FOR PHILANTHROPY — $100,250 · OtherAFP FOUNDATION FOR PHILANTHROPYTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $93,080 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $61,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL — $49,250 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $41,000 · Other+98 more — $414,787 · Other+98 moreHarris County Hospital District Foundation — $100,500 · HealthHarris County Hospital…ONE MIND — $75,629 · HealthONE MINDMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS — $50,000 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH …NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC — $45,000 · HealthNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGH…THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,500 · Health+16 more — $36,779 · Health+16 moreWilliam Marsh Rice University — $41,000 · EducationWilliam M…University of Notre Dame du Lac — $20,100 · EducationUniversit…University of St Thomas — $18,450 · EducationUniversit…Baylor College of Medicine — $15,500 · EducationBaylor Co…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 · EducationTHE TRUST…Indiana University Foundation — $10,000 · EducationIndiana U…KING'S ACADEMY — $6,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $5,500 · EducationLinda Lorelle Scholarship Fund — $5,000 · Education+5 more — $3,750 · EducationTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureContemporary Arts Museum Houston — $25,000 · Arts & CultureALLEY THEATRE — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $7,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $12,750 · Arts & CultureUnited Way of Greater Houston — $46,250 · PhilanthropyNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $5,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $3,250 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON — $8,500 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $6,250 · Human ServicesChristian Community Service Center Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $2,500 · Human ServicesINSPIRATION RANCH INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION — $1,023 · Human Services+3 more — $1,100 · Human ServicesALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC — $23,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC — $1,000 · Environment
Other$959,367Health$323,408Education$135,300Arts & Culture$95,250Philanthropy$61,000Human Services$29,373Environment$24,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHarris County Hospital District Foundation — $100,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAFP FOUNDATION FOR PHILANTHROPY — $100,250 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetONE MIND — $75,629 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $46,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetContemporary Arts Museum Houston — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC — $23,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $20,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLEY THEATRE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $18,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROSE — $12,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION OF YAHWEH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA SAFE PLACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMental Health America of Greater Houston Inc — $9,906 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON — $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER — $7,591 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $6,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLinda Lorelle Scholarship Fund — $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren At Risk — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas 2036 — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHERISH OUR CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $4,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES — $3,060 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHouston Hospice — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFree Enterprise Institute — $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRATION RANCH INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBo's Place — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Harris County Hospital District Foundation
  • Who funds AFP FOUNDATION FOR PHILANTHROPY
  • Who funds ONE MIND
  • Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Houston
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
  • Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC
  • Who funds Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
  • Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac
  • Who funds ALLEY THEATRE
  • Who funds University of St Thomas
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE ROSE
  • Who funds MISSION OF YAHWEH INC
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation
  • Who funds A SAFE PLACE INC
  • Who funds Mental Health America of Greater Houston Inc

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX50.7× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · The Elkins 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 Hackett Family Foundation 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%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • A Safe Place Inc45% of income from government
  • New England Life Flight Inc5% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc4% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
19report 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.

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How do I get to Hackett Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hackett 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 174 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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