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Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable 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.

$233k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of HAROLD RUBENSTEIN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k51 grants · $178k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DC PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$25,000
YALE COLLEGE$20,000
ROCK CREEK CONSERVANCY$10,000
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY (UNDER AMHERST COLLEGE)$9,500
100REPORTERS$8,500
TELLURIDE FOUNDATION$8,000
HARVARD PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$8,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$7,000
STUDIO THEATRE$5,500
TELLURIDE SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER$5,000
FOOD & FRIENDS$5,000
MOVEMENT VOTER FUND$5,000
THEATRE JEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND$5,000
TROUT UNLIMITED$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OLD COLONY YMCA: $2k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $3k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $3k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $3k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $3k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $3k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $2k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $2k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $2k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $1k → 8%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM PEP: $1k → 8%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM PEP: $1k → 8%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM PEP: $1k → 8%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM PEP: $1k → 8%FAIR CHANCE: $2k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $9k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $8k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $7k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 14%CENTRONIA: $5k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 14%ANCHOR FUND: $2k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $2k → 14%CENTRONIA: $1k → 14%CENTRONIA: $500 → 14%CENTRONIA: $500 → 14%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

NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL

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 14% of Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable 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.

Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 97 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

97 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
32

Total granted

$1.9M
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+7%

Still filing today

60%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • DO
    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +82%
  • WM
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $146k · revenue +22%
  • LM
    LEVINE MUSIC INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $66k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • HC
    HARVARD COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -34%
  • PF
    PT FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
3
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.

4
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
5
The Cultural Landscape Foundation

A non-profit established in 1998, the cultural landscape foundation (tclf) connects people to places. tclf educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.…

Arts & Culture
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

10
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

11
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
12
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downtowndc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sparky Productions Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr16%38%35–55yr15%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr16%58%35–55yr15%23%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/82
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,919

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

78 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. 78 of the 140 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
54/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $150,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYFOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY (UNDER AMHERST COLLEGE) — $84,500 · OtherFOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY (UNDER AMHERST COLLEGE)HARVARD PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — $58,000 · OtherFOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY — $52,800 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGE FUND — $50,000 · OtherSHAKESPEARE THEATRE - HARMON CENTER — $44,000 · OtherGLOBAL HERITAGE FUND — $41,500 · Other+83 more — $659,550 · Other+83 moreDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $349,900 · EducationDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUB…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $80,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of…+8 more — $65,000 · Education+8 moreWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc — $145,600 · Arts & CultureWoolly Mammoth The…LEVINE MUSIC INC — $65,600 · Arts & CultureLEVINE MUSIC INCNational Gallery of Art — $56,500 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery o…NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL THEATRE I…MOUNTAINFILM — $14,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $14,421 · Arts & CultureCOSMOS CLUB HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $14,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $44,200 · Arts & Culture+11 moreAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentRock Creek Conservancy Inc — $46,250 · EnvironmentFriends of the National Arboretum — $16,500 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $9,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,500 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 · Environment+1 more — $4,500 · EnvironmentIona Senior Services — $38,500 · Human ServicesBETHESDA CARES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCENTRONIA — $6,500 · Human ServicesPARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC — $4,000 · Human Services+3 more — $6,000 · Human ServicesTELLURIDE FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Recreation & SportsTelluride Mountain Club — $4,750 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF MITCHELL PARK INC — $2,250 · Recreation & SportsCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $35,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $6,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $2,500 · Civil Rights
Other$1,140,350Education$494,900Arts & Culture$374,821Environment$148,750Human Services$75,000Recreation & Sports$52,000Civil Rights$50,500

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 budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $349,900 over 8y, 10% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $150,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc — $145,600 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEVINE MUSIC INC — $65,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $56,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc — $46,250 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL HERITAGE FUND — $41,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetIona Senior Services — $38,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $38,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $34,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $24,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $24,200 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS — $22,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBETHESDA CARES INC — $20,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $19,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the National Arboretum — $16,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAINFILM — $14,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $14,421 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARET SCHOOL INC — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOSMOS CLUB HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budget100REPORTERS — $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM — $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTelluride Historical Museum Inc — $10,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pinhead Institute — $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD — $7,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRONIA — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $6,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIR & SPACE FORCES AID SOCIETY INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art
  • Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC
  • Who funds Rock Creek Conservancy Inc
  • Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GLOBAL HERITAGE FUND
  • Who funds Iona Senior Services
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC
  • Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC
  • Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS
  • Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC
  • Who funds BETHESDA CARES INC
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds Friends of the National Arboretum
  • Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MOUNTAINFILM
  • Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
  • Who funds MARET SCHOOL 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 Washington Community FoundationDC42.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Telluride Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Open Society Institute

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 Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable 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 · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 22%
  • Bethesda Cares Inc100% of income from government
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc60% of income from government
  • Parent Encouragement Program Inc22% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable 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 140 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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