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James C & Norma I Smith Foundation at a glance

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James C & Norma I Smith 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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$9.1MFood & Nutrition$2.9MAnimals$2.3MHuman Services$1.6MEmployment$675kInternational$670kEducation$570kPublic Safety & Disaster$520kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $950k
$100,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$700,000
ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE$250,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA$200,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE$200,000
DION'S CHICAGO DREAM$175,000
PAWS CHICAGO$150,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$150,000
KITCHENS FOR GOOD$125,000
CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING$125,000
BIRCH COMMUNITY SERVICES$125,000
JUMPSTART$125,000
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY$125,000
CHEF ANN FOUNDATION$115,000
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$100,000
OPERATION KINDNESS$100,000
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 (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HONORHEALTH DESERT MISSION: $50k → 11%PROJECT NIGHT NIGHT: $20k → 10%HONORHEALTH DESERT MISSION: $50k → 11%PROJECT NIGHT NIGHT: $20k → 10%honorhealth desert mission: $50k → 11%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15k → 10%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $125k → 14%BIRCH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $125k → 12%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $75k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15k → 10%BIRCH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 12%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $60k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $50k → 14%BIRCH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 12%THE BLOC: $100k → 14%THE BLOC: $100k → 14%THE BLOC: $50k → 14%HONORHEALTH DESERT MISSION: $50k → 11%HONORHEALTH DESERT MISSION: $25k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $125k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $100k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $100k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $100k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $100k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $100k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $100k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $100k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $50k → 11%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CA
UT
CO
AZ
DC
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 57 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
8

Total granted

$19M
$236k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+16%

Still filing today

88%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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 ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionEducationHealthInternationalOther
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

  • HO
    Hospice of the Valley
    9× · 2017–2025 · $875k · revenue +55%
  • TA
    THE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $720k · revenue +50%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $625k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +163%
  • OH
    OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • LS
    Larkin Street Youth Services
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +8%
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
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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5
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
6
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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7
Pathways Kitchen

Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward

Crime & Legal
8
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
9
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
10
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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11
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Texas; the most unlike its peers is Sail Martha's Vineyard 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

59 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. 59 of the 71 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)
59/59
Grantees still filing
40/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $6,700,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES: $425,000 · Other+28 more: $2,809,000 · Other+28 moreHospice of the Valley: $875,000 · Human ServicesHospice of th…Carole Robertson Center for Learning: $310,000 · Human ServicesCarole Robert…Birch Community Services Inc: $275,000 · Human ServicesBirch Communi…THE BLOC: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE BLOCDESERT MISSION INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesDESERT MISSIO…FARMLINK PROJECT: $225,000 · Human ServicesFARMLINK PROJ…+4 more: $135,000 · Human Services+4 moreTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $720,000 · AnimalsTHE ARIZONA …PAWS CHICAGO: $464,000 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGOSPCA of Texas: $250,000 · AnimalsSPCA of Texa…STRAYDOG INC: $200,000 · AnimalsSTRAYDOG INCDALLAS PETS ALIVE: $200,000 · AnimalsDALLAS PETS …OPERATION KINDNESS: $150,000 · AnimalsOPERATION KI…Pets In Need: $150,000 · AnimalsPets In NeedOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $100,000 · AnimalsST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $625,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S F…DIONS CHICAGO DREAM INC NFP: $450,000 · Food & NutritionDIONS CHICA…FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $285,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD RECOVE…412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $200,000 · Food & Nutrition412 FOOD RE…URBAN GLEANERS: $200,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN GLEAN…Waste Not Inc: $100,000 · Food & NutritionBRIDGE STEPS: $75,000 · Food & NutritionRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $570,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $520,000 · InternationalEDEN PEOPLEPLANET: $100,000 · InternationalPhoenix Houses of Texas Inc: $600,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $250,000 · HealthEYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah: $175,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $85,000 · HealthSUTTER ROSEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $65,000 · HealthJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $310,000 · EducationCHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $265,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $100,000 · EducationLiteracy Partners Inc: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · Education
Other$9,934,000Human Services$2,295,000Animals$2,234,000Food & Nutrition$2,010,000International$1,190,000Health$1,175,000Education$935,000

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 budgetHospice of the Valley: $875,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $720,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $625,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Houses of Texas Inc: $600,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $570,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $520,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $464,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDIONS CHICAGO DREAM INC NFP: $450,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning: $310,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $310,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $300,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $285,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetJOBTRAIN INC: $275,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBirch Community Services Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $265,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $265,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $250,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLIFT INC: $250,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA of Texas: $250,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BLOC: $250,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetDESERT MISSION INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFARMLINK PROJECT: $225,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSTRAYDOG INC: $200,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetURBAN GLEANERS: $200,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDALLAS PETS ALIVE: $200,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetEYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah: $175,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHARVEST AGAINST HUNGER: $175,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPets In Need: $150,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEDEN PEOPLEPLANET: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWaste Not Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY: $90,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE STEPS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUTTER ROSEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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 Hospice of the Valley ↗
  • Who funds THE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Houses of Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds DIONS CHICAGO DREAM INC NFP ↗
  • Who funds Carole Robertson Center for Learning ↗
  • Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds JOBTRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds Birch Community Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEF ANN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
  • Who funds THE BLOC ↗
  • Who funds DESERT MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds FARMLINK PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds STRAYDOG INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN GLEANERS ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS PETS ALIVE ↗
  • Who funds EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
  • Who funds Pets In Need ↗
  • Who funds HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds EDEN PEOPLEPLANET ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL 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.

Robert R McCormick Fo…Texas Instruments Fou…The Albertsons Compan…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Kroger Co Foundat…The Autzen FoundationAmerican Express Foun…The Blackbaud Giving …The Oregon Community …Silicon Valley Commun…The Each Foundation
Robert R McCormick FoundationIL17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert R McCormick Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Kroger Co Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Oregon Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Each 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 James C & Norma I Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James C & Norma I Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Portland Opportunities Indust Center: 38% of income from government
  • Kairospdx: 19% of income from government
  • Pear: 1% of income from government
  • Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report 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 James C & Norma I Smith 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 71 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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