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Interstates Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$363k
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$540kHuman Services$366kHealth$168kPhilanthropy$111kRecreation & Sports$93kArts & Culture$62kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kCommunity Improvement$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $249k
$2,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT$32,677
FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS$30,000
WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY$25,000
SIOUX CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$20,000
ROCK VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$18,458
ROCK VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL$18,458
RISING ARROWS INC$16,000
BRIDGING THE GAP$15,000
ATLAS OF SIOUX CENTER$15,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA DAKOTAS$13,000
FRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY$10,000
DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,500
SIOUX CENTER CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION BOOSTERS$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%WELLS OF LIFE: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%MANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $500 → 8%KADEN'S KLOSET INC: $500 → 10%GOOD SHEPHERD HOMECARE & HOSPICE: $3k → 20%SHEPHERDS CLOSET INC: $1k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $2k → 12%MID SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $2k → 7%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $5k → 8%MANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $500 → 8%ATLAS OF SPENCER: $250 → 9%SERVE CITY: $2k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $2k → 12%MID SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $2k → 7%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $5k → 8%CAMP HIGH HOPES: $25k → 13%GOOD SHEPHERD HOMECARE & HOSPICE: $2k → 20%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $2k → 12%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $5k → 8%CAMP HIGH HOPES: $25k → 13%SERVE CITY: $500 → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $500 → 12%CAMP HIGH HOPES: $25k → 13%SERVE CITY: $500 → 12%SANTA COPS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $500 → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $500 → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $250 → 9%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $500 → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $2k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $500 → 12%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $2k → 9%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $85k → 8%FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS: $30k → 8%FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS: $29k → 8%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $27k → 8%CALL TO FREEDOM: $500 → 9%FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS: $27k → 8%WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY: $25k → 8%WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY: $25k → 8%ATLAS OF SIOUX CENTER: $15k → 8%WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY: $3k → 8%MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $2k → 8%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $2k → 8%ATLAS OF SIOUX CENTER: $1k → 8%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $550 → 8%WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE AND JOY: $500 → 8%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

AK
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ND
MN
IL
NY
SD
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
KS
DC
OK
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 59 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
160

Total granted

$1.1M
$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+13%

Still filing today

63%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • FC
    FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $201k · revenue +58%
  • DU
    DORDT UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $109k · revenue +61%
  • DS
    DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • DS
    DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $31k
  • NF
    NCC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • SC
    SIOUX CENTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Food Bank of Iowa

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

Food & Nutrition
2
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
3
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…

Human Services
4
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…

Community Improvement
5
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
6
South Dakota Voices for Peace

Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.

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7
Food Bank of Southern Iowa

Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.

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8
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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9
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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10
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
11
Sioux Falls Cares Inc

To provide food, clothing, toys and other miscellaneous items to families in need.

Philanthropy
12
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Commercial Chaos for a Cure. 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

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 268 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/103
Grantees still filing
69/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIOUX CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherSIOUX CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSioux Center Health: $50,000 · OtherSioux Center HealthDAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $31,000 · OtherNCC FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,500 · OtherSIOUX CENTER MIDDLE SCHOOL: $25,000 · Other+151 more: $380,769 · Other+151 moreFAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC: $200,936 · Human ServicesFAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INCCAMP HIGH HOPES: $75,000 · Human ServicesCAMP HIGH HOPESWHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY INC: $53,000 · Human ServicesWHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY I…ATLAS OF SIOUX CENTER LTD: $16,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $15,500 · Human Services+12 more: $38,669 · Human Services+12 moreDORDT UNIVERSITY: $109,000 · EducationDORDT UNIVERSITYDAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationDAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY…SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $62,000 · EducationSIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN …UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA …SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION OF ROCK VALLEY: $18,458 · EducationSOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN IN…MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · Education+8 more: $28,258 · Education+8 moreSIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $52,600 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $5,500 · PhilanthropySIOUX CENTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $4,210 · Philanthropy+3 more: $3,250 · PhilanthropyMIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT - IA & SD: $57,452 · Arts & CultureRISING ARROWS INC: $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY: $10,000 · Community ImprovementUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Other$667,269Human Services$399,105Education$325,716Philanthropy$70,560Arts & Culture$57,452Youth Development$16,000Community Improvement$16,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC: $200,936 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY: $109,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP HIGH HOPES: $75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetDAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $62,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT - IA & SD: $57,452 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetWHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY INC: $53,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $52,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSioux Center Health: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION OF ROCK VALLEY: $18,458 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetATLAS OF SIOUX CENTER LTD: $16,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRISING ARROWS INC: $16,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetVILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $13,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIN OUR BACKYARDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOOD PANTRY: $7,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetHELPLINE CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $5,919 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX CENTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWELLS OF LIFE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRIDGEWATER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4,608 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD HOMECARE & HOSPICE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE OF MISSOURI INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $4,210 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Fort Dodge IA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERVE CITY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEMBE: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation: $2,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNoco Humane: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILOS HOSPITALITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBE ABLE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $1,510 over 2y, 0.0% 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 FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HIGH HOPES ↗
  • Who funds DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST HONOR FLIGHT - IA & SD ↗
  • Who funds WHISPERS OF LOVE HOPE & JOY INC ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Sioux Center Health ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION OF ROCK VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds ATLAS OF SIOUX CENTER LTD ↗
  • Who funds RISING ARROWS INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE NORTHWEST UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds IN OUR BACKYARDS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Sioux Falls Area Comm…Pella Rolscreen Found…Sanford Group ReturnVogel FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…Midcontinent Foundati…Demco Charitable Foun…Premier Communication…South Dakota Communit…Siouxland Community F…Timothy J Sandbulte F…The Mike Cindy and Ky…
Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation IncSD38.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Vogel Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · Demco Charitable Foundation · Premier Communications Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Timothy J Sandbulte Family Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family 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 Interstates Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Interstates Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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

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    How do I get to Interstates Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Interstates 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 268 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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