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J Bulow Campbell Foundation at a glance

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J Bulow Campbell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$52MHealth$27MHuman Services$22MPhilanthropy$13MYouth Development$10MFood & Nutrition$8.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$7.8MHousing & Shelter$6.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+39 grants · $37M
$400,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$758M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC$4,500,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$3,253,104
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION$2,500,000
ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC$2,000,000
WESLEYAN SCHOOL$2,000,000
YMCA OF GEORGIA'S PIEDMONT INC$1,800,000
ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC$1,500,000
CITY OF REFUGE INC$1,500,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER$1,500,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO ATLANTA$1,250,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$1,000,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC$1,000,000
HERMAN J RUSSELL CENTER FOR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP$1,000,000
MT BETHEL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$775,000
GRACEPOINT SCHOOL$750,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $13.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ATLANTA MISSION: $2.0M → 13%YMCA OF GEORGIA'S PIEDMONT INC: $1.8M → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $962k → 13%SOARING HEIGHTS COMMUNITIES: $800k → 13%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $500k → 13%GEORGIA WORKS: $500k → 13%MARY HALL FREEDOM HOUSE: $500k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $500k → 13%MARY HALL FREEDOM HOUSE: $500k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $450k → 13%BETHESDA UNION SOCIETY OF SAVANNAH: $400k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $300k → 13%QUEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $300k → 13%NORTH GWINNETT COOPERATIVE: $300k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $250k → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $250k → 13%WELLROOT FAMILY SERVICES: $250k → 13%GLOBAL IMPACT INTERNATIONAL: $200k → 13%OPEN DOORS SOLUTIONS INC: $200k → 13%PROJECT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $200k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $200k → 13%THE GEORGIA WELCOME COOPERATIVE INC: $175k → 13%COMMUNITY HELPING PLACE: $151k → 13%GOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION: $150k → 13%JUST PEOPLE: $150k → 13%KATE'S CLUB: $150k → 13%GOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION: $150k → 13%GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY: $150k → 13%HOPE HEALS: $150k → 13%OPEN DOORS SOLUTIONS INC: $100k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $100k → 13%OPEN DOOR SOLUTIONS INC: $100k → 13%FRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS AND CHILDREN: $100k → 13%OPEN DOORS SOLUTIONS INC: $100k → 13%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $100k → 13%COMMUNITY HELPING PLACE: $49k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $31k → 13%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.
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58M · 47 repeat orgs$109M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
142

Total granted

$58M
$87M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+1%

Still filing today

74%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TG
    THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2.5M · revenue +237%
  • WS
    WESLEYAN SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +8%
  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4.0M · revenue -77%
  • WA
    WHITEFIELD ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3.0M · revenue +61%
  • YO
    YMCA OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA
    one grant, 2022 · $3.0M
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
Friends School of Atlanta

The school's mission is to provide challenging academics in a diverse environment, drawing on the quaker testimonies, or values, of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship to empower students to go out into the…

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2
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
3
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.

Employment
4
The Atlanta Academy Inc

Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.

Education
5
Georgia Cyber Academy Inc

Provide exemplary individualized/engaging education by incorporating school/community/family partnerships coupled with a rigorous curriculum within a data-driven and student-centered instructional model.

Education
6
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
7
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
8
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
9
Chesterton Academy of Atlanta Inc

The corporation will serve to establish and direct a classical high schoolgrounded in the catholic faith in western cobb county, georgia, usa.

Education
10
Piedmont Hospital Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
11
Georgia Charter Schools Inc

Operation of charter school and related support services.

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12
Breakthrough Atlanta

Breakthrough atlanta pursues a dual mission: to increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved students and get them into college ready to succeed; and inspire and develop the next generation of teachers and educational…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Feeding the Valley Inc. 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

184 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. 184 of the 227 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
182/184
Grantees still filing
97/184
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $5,063,608 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC: $3,026,190 · OtherYMCA OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA: $3,000,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION: $2,995,718 · Other+97 more: $64,211,460 · Other+97 moreWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC: $2,500,000 · EducationWESLEYAN SCHOOL INCBERRY COLLEGE INC: $2,400,000 · EducationBERRY COLLEGE INCNORTH COBB CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $2,224,155 · EducationNORTH COBB CHRISTIAN SC…PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC: $2,000,000 · EducationPURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS A…The Howard School Inc: $1,647,827 · EducationAtlanta Youth Academies Foundation Inc: $1,511,434 · EducationSpelman College: $1,500,000 · EducationEmory University: $1,300,000 · EducationTHE JACOB'S LADDER GROUP: $1,255,081 · EducationGRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC: $1,250,000 · Education+27 more: $19,036,827 · Education+27 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $12,945,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY…SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $4,000,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENT…THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,510,604 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEA…+2 more: $994,481 · PhilanthropyATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $2,000,000 · HealthATLANTA R…MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 · HealthMERCY CAR…NAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,015,691 · HealthNAVICENT …Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 · HealthPiedmont …EAGLE RANCH INC: $1,000,000 · HealthEAGLE RAN…NO LONGER BOUND INC: $772,722 · HealthNO LONGER…Atlanta Association for Convalescent Aged Persons Inc: $725,000 · HealthRIVER EDGE FOUNDATION INC: $506,603 · HealthVIA COGNITIVE HEALTH INC: $500,000 · HealthGLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $500,000 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER INC: $500,000 · HealthAnnandale At Suwanee Inc: $500,000 · HealthGOOD NEWS CLINICS INC: $500,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500,000 · Health+9 more: $2,625,000 · Health+9 moreATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $2,000,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Georgia's Piedmont Inc: $1,800,000 · Human ServicesNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $1,050,000 · Human ServicesMary Hall Freedom Village Inc: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $993,584 · Human ServicesSOARING HEIGHTS COMMUNITIES INC: $800,000 · Human ServicesCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Works Inc: $500,000 · Human ServicesOpen Doors Solutions Inc: $500,000 · Human Services+11 more: $2,950,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $1,757,461 · Food & NutritionAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $1,500,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $1,400,000 · Food & NutritionGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $500,000 · Food & NutritionLIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC: $500,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $500,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $450,000 · Food & NutritionGEORGIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC: $400,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding the Valley Inc: $350,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $200,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $6,098,725 · Crime & LegalCHILD ENRICHMENT INC: $600,000 · Crime & LegalMICAH'S PROMISE INC: $300,000 · Crime & LegalTHE GEORGIA HEIRS PROPERTY LAW CENTER INC: $300,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$78,296,976Education$36,625,324Philanthropy$20,450,085Health$14,145,016Human Services$12,093,584Food & Nutrition$7,557,461Crime & Legal$7,298,725

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $12,945,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $6,098,725 over 4y, 86% of budgetWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC: $3,026,190 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,510,604 over 2y, 13% of budgetWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC: $2,500,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $2,400,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH COBB CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $2,224,155 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $2,000,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetPURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC: $2,000,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Georgia's Piedmont Inc: $1,800,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $1,800,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC: $1,760,427 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $1,757,461 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,750,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Howard School Inc: $1,647,827 over 1y, 11% of budgetAtlanta Youth Academies Foundation Inc: $1,511,434 over 1y, 21% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetSpelman College: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $1,400,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetEmory University: $1,300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACOB'S LADDER GROUP: $1,255,081 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $1,250,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetGRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCORNERS OUTREACH LLC: $1,200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $1,200,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $1,050,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetNAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,015,691 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetAG Rhodes Health & Rehab Atlanta: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMary Hall Freedom Village Inc: $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPACE ACADEMY INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRUSSELL INNOVATION CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $993,584 over 1y, 13% 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.

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.

Georgia Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…Fraser-Parker Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …Tw Marian W Ottley At…Tull Charitable Found…Tr Uw Charles I BrananUnited Way of Greater…The Waterfall Foundat…Community Foundation …Joseph B Whitehead Fo…The Sartain Lanier Fa…
Georgia Power Foundation IncGA114.5× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Joseph B Whitehead Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc

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 J Bulow Campbell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Bulow Campbell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    70report 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, 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 J Bulow Campbell Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to J Bulow Campbell 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 227 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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