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Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation

Jack, joseph and morton mandel supporting foundation is a supporting foundation of the jewish federation of cleveland and as such, is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, the federation.

$139M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$40M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

54% of Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Cleveland, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 31 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$183MEducation$38MCommunity Improvement$23MPublic Safety & Disaster$17MYouth Development$15MArts & Culture$13MInternational$7.4MReligion$4.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $131,385,553, the rows itemized in this filing. The $138,700,357 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,314,804 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $975k
  • $250k+29 grants · $130M
$970,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$40,006,000
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC$28,518,900
SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC$17,000,000
BNAI BRITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC$9,000,000
MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION$9,000,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$3,750,000
JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC$3,610,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$2,250,000
LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC$2,000,000
STRUGGLE TO SAVE ETHIOPIAN JEWRY$1,500,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$1,400,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND$1,150,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC$1,100,000
MACCABI USA INC$1,008,000
JOSEPH AND FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$1,000,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–25, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $298k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $125k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $100k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $500k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $300k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $150k → 8%COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $100k → 17%NEAR WEST SIDE MULTI-SERVICE CORPORATION: $300k → 17%NEAR WEST SIDE MULTI-SERVICE CORPORATION: $100k → 17%THE CENTERS: $1.0M → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $300k → 17%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 32%.

Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 38% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$95M · 26 repeat orgs$40M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
18

Total granted

$95M
$9.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

96%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30M went to new ones.

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

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

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EducationReligionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • D
    DIGITALC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $18M · revenue +148% · 74% of their budget
  • BB
    B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $14M · revenue +61%
  • JF
    JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $13M · revenue +41% · 91% of their budget

Funded once

  • John Carroll University
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue +6%
  • RT
    REPAIR THE WORLD
    one grant, 2022 · $1.4M · revenue -1%
  • YD
    YESHIVA DERECH HATORAH
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M · revenue -7%
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.

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Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
2
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
7
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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9
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
10
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
11
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
12
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Israel Experience Tide Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 63 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
29/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $104,849,066 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELANDTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $59,986,976 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $11,710,633 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELANDJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $6,275,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $2,350,000 · PhilanthropyJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $12,750,000 · EducationJOSEPH & F…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $3,833,334 · EducationCASE WESTE…M2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION: $2,325,000 · EducationM2 THE INS…LEADING EDGE ALLIANCEINC: $2,000,000 · EducationLEADING ED…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,933,334 · EducationBRANDEIS U…John Carroll University: $1,500,000 · EducationYESHIVA DERECH HATORAH: $1,250,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $1,172,844 · EducationHEBREW COLLEGE: $1,000,000 · Education+5 more: $1,797,500 · Education+5 moreDIGITALC: $18,000,000 · Community ImprovementREPAIR THE WORLD: $1,450,000 · Community ImprovementTHE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $1,100,000 · Community ImprovementMIDTOWN CLEVELAND INC: $850,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $983,333 · Community ImprovementSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $17,000,000 · Public Safety & DisasterB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $13,600,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $800,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Musical Arts Association: $9,250,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,400,000 · Arts & CultureCUSTOM AND CRAFT JEWISH RITUALS INC DBA RECUSTOM HAGGADOTCOM: $700,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $600,000 · Arts & CultureJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $6,260,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $3,750,000 · International+1 more: $200,000 · InternationalHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $4,000,000 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $2,000,000 · OtherMOISHE HOUSE: $1,710,000 · OtherMANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $1,575,000 · OtherThe Centers for Families and Children: $1,000,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $950,000 · OtherCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $3,000,000 · OtherMACCABI USA INC: $1,008,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $1,000,000 · Other+15 more: $4,584,895 · Other
Philanthropy$185,171,675Education$29,562,012Community Improvement$22,383,333Public Safety & Disaster$17,000,000Youth Development$14,500,000Arts & Culture$11,950,000International$10,210,000Other$20,827,895

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $104,849,066 over 6y, 27% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $59,986,976 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetDIGITALC: $18,000,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $13,600,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $12,750,000 over 4y, 91% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $11,710,633 over 6y, 24% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $9,250,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $6,275,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $6,260,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $4,000,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $3,833,334 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $3,000,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetM2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION: $2,325,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $2,000,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLEADING EDGE ALLIANCEINC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,933,334 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $1,710,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $1,575,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD: $1,450,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,400,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH HATORAH: $1,250,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $1,172,844 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $1,100,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $950,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMIDTOWN CLEVELAND INC: $850,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $800,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $683,333 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND: $663,029 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $622,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $565,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $522,653 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $400,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $325,880 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $300,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNLI USA INC: $300,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetJPRO NETWORK INC: $300,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC: $225,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY: $200,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCENTRAL EUROPE CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetZionist Rabbinic Coalition Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetMACCABI WORLD UNION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCommunity Security Service: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

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.

Jack Joseph & Morton …Jewish Federation of …The Cleveland Foundat…The George Gund Found…David & Inez Myers Fo…Jewish Communal FundThe Shimon Ben Joseph…The McGregor Foundati…Mt Sinai Health Care …The Russell Berrie Fo…The Reinberger Founda…The Cleveland Clinic …
Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel FoundationOH28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · David & Inez Myers Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The McGregor Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Russell Berrie Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic 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 Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Adamah Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
17report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting 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 63 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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