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Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Human Services$256kEnvironment$233kFood & Nutrition$218kYouth Development$171kArts & Culture$148kEducation$124kHealth$113kHousing & Shelter$64kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $140k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLIAMETTE$20,000
HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA$15,000
SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE$15,000
OREGON ORIGINS PROJECT$10,000
HIGH DESERT FOOD AND FARM ALLIANCE$10,000
CENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE$10,000
BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE$10,000
BEND-LA PINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON$10,000
DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
QUIET GIVERS$10,000
WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC$10,000
HEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES$7,500
COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON$7,500
BOARD HOUSE SOCIETY$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, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAVING GRACE: $20k → 10%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 8%SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $15k → 10%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 8%DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $10k → 10%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $10k → 10%DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $7k → 10%BOARD HOUSE SOCIETY: $5k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK: $15k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK: $15k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK: $13k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK: $10k → 10%COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON: $10k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK: $10k → 10%COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON: $8k → 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.

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 9% of Helen M Clabough 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.

Helen M Clabough 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 35 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
39

Total granted

$1.1M
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+19%

Still filing today

89%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • M
    MountainTrue
    6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +258%
  • DR
    DESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +57%
  • FA
    Family Access Network Foundation
    5× · 2017–2021 · $63k · revenue +302%

Funded once

  • CO
    CENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE NON PROFIT
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TG
    THE GIVING PLATE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +19%
  • SC
    SCALEHOUSE COLLABORATIVE FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2024 · $15k

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
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
3
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.

Education
4
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
5
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

6
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
7
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
8
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.

Environment
9
Clackamas River Basin Council Inc

The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed

Environment
10
Outgrowing Hunger

We nurture connections between people,nature,and food by ensuring access to garden space and farmland, and providing education and mentoring on regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices.

Food & Nutrition
11
Rogue Action Center

Our mission is to grow organizing power and leaders for a more just and thriving Southern Oregon.

Community Improvement
12
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center and the most unlike its peers is Board House Society. 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 backsteadyOregon Civic Advocacy Organ…Asheville Community Develop…Youth Arts Education Progra…Youth Sports LeaguesLocal Community Organizatio…Garden Preservation & Horti…Pacific Northwest Community…Oregon Industry & Professio…Youth Mentoring and SupportAlternative Elementary Scho…Live Performance & Music Ve…
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr18%41%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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%0/61
the rest of the field
12%
999/8,359

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

59 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. 59 of the 78 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
40/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLIAMETTE — $70,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLIAMETTESAVING GRACE — $50,000 · OtherSAVING GRACECENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE NON PROFIT — $25,000 · OtherWAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $20,000 · OtherTHE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · OtherTHE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER — $35,000 · OtherKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CE…CENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE — $35,000 · OtherCENTRAL OREGON LOCAVOREOREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS — $23,500 · OtherHEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES INC — $21,500 · Other+33 more — $227,610 · Other+33 moreMountainTrue — $80,000 · EnvironmentMountainTrueDESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE — $65,000 · EnvironmentDESCHUTES RIVER…CENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER — $22,500 · EnvironmentCENTRAL OREGON …AMERICAN RIVERS INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS…Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League — $8,000 · Environment+1 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentFamily Access Network Foundation — $63,000 · Human ServicesFamily Access …SAVING GRACE — $35,000 · Human ServicesSAVING GRACECASA OF CENTRAL OREGON — $27,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF CENTRA…DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesDESCHUTES CHIL…COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON — $17,500 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON AGI…BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA — $10,000 · Human ServicesBEDFORD AREA F…+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…Camp Fire Central Oregon — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Fire Cen…CALDERA — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentCALDERAThe Children's Playhouse Inc — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Children'…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF TH…THE MAYFLY PROJECT — $6,128 · Youth DevelopmentTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC — $56,000 · Food & NutritionTHE HUNGER …BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE — $52,035 · Food & NutritionBLUE RIDGE …High Desert Food & Farm Alliance — $21,050 · Food & NutritionHigh Desert…THE GIVING PLATE — $15,000 · Food & NutritionTHE GIVING …+2 more — $3,500 · Food & NutritionSCALEHOUSE — $49,000 · Arts & CultureSCALEHOUS…HIGH DESERT MUSEUM — $25,000 · Arts & CultureHIGH DESE…TOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTOWER THE…OREGON ORIGINS PROJECT — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON OR…BEAT — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBEATYOUNG AUDIENCES OF OREGON INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUD…ASHEVILLE WATCHDOG — $5,000 · Arts & CultureHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA — $45,000 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterKOR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST DBA ROOTEDHOMES — $7,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $1,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$542,610Environment$195,500Human Services$177,500Youth Development$171,128Food & Nutrition$147,585Arts & Culture$124,000Housing & Shelter$63,500

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 budgetMountainTrue — $80,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetDESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE — $65,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetFamily Access Network Foundation — $63,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC — $56,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE — $52,035 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSCALEHOUSE — $49,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA — $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCamp Fire Central Oregon — $40,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSAVING GRACE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER — $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE — $35,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCASA OF CENTRAL OREGON — $27,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetThe Children's Playhouse Inc — $25,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS — $23,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER — $22,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES INC — $21,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHigh Desert Food & Farm Alliance — $21,050 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION — $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GIVING PLATE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetQUIET GIVERS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON ORIGINS PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF OREGON CORPS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEAT — $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFARM CAFE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF OREGON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBlue Ridge Environmental Defense League — $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD MUSE — $7,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetKOR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST DBA ROOTEDHOMES — $7,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE MAYFLY PROJECT — $6,128 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDiscover Your Northwest — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ACCC LIBRARY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoard House Society — $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Roundhouse FoundationOR47.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · St Charles Health System Inc · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · United Way of Deschutes County · The Anjulicia Foundation · Bend Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc

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 Helen M Clabough 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 16%
  • Kor Community Land Trust Dba Rootedhomes63% of income from government
  • Samara Learning Center56% of income from government
  • Saving Grace48% of income from government
  • High Desert Food & Farm Alliance45% of income from government
  • Council On Aging of Central Oregon43% of income from government
  • Heart of Oregon Corps Inc28% of income from government
  • Young Audiences of Oregon Inc23% of income from government
  • Family Resource Center of Central Oregon22% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc16% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children- Central Oregon16% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum11% of income from government
  • Healing Reins Equine Assisted Services Inc11% of income from government
  • Scalehouse10% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association9% of income from government
  • Tower Theatre Foundation Inc8% of income from government
  • Casa of Central Oregon2% of income from government
  • Caldera1% of income from government
  • Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 78 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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