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Joan and Leonard Engle Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k
Granted FY2023
51
Grants FY2023
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Health$270kPhilanthropy$120kEducation$90kHuman Services$83kHousing & Shelter$40kYouth Development$19kReligion$18kArts & Culture$16kOther$0
02FY2023 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k47 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HASBRO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$25,000
JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND$18,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$15,000
FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI SEMITISM$10,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$8,000
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM$4,300
MIRIAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$3,500
ROSIE'S PLACE$3,500
JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES$3,000
CUMMINGS JEWISH CENTRE FOR SENIORS FOUNDATION$2,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,500
WHEATON COLLEGE$2,500
BUTLER HOSPITAL$2,500
RABBI ANGELA BUCHDAHI DISCRETIONARY FUND$2,250
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$2,000
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 (FY18–23, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRADLES TO CRAYON: $250 → 8%BLANKETS OF HOPE: $250 → 20%PROJECT SMILE: $3k → 11%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $4k → 16%CATIE'S CLOSET: $1k → 8%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%CATIE'S CLOSET: $1k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $1k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $500 → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $500 → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $2k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $2k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $2k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $2k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $200 → 16%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $3k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $3k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $3k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $3k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $3k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 14%ADOPTION RI: $500 → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $20k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $20k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $19k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $19k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $18k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $18k → 14%REFUGEE DREAM CENTER: $500 → 14%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

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NH
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CA
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DC
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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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$666k · 54 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
50

Total granted

$666k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+33%

Still filing today

57%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • JA
    JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND
    6× · 2018–2023 · $113k · revenue +6%
  • Vanderbilt University
    6× · 2018–2023 · $47k · revenue +65%
  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • PS
    PROJECT SMILE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +29%
  • WW
    WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • CH
    CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
Hopehealth

Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.

Human Services
2
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
3
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
4
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc

To help vulnerable children and their families build permanent, positive change.

Human Services
5
Trinity Health of New England Corporation Inc

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health of new england is a member of trinity health.

Health
6
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
7
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…

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8
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
Rhode Island Kids Count Inc

Rhode island kids count, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation. the organization is a children's policy and advocacy organization that provides information on child well-being, stimulates dialogue on children's issues, and promotes…

Youth Development
12
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island; the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism 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

76 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. 76 of the 120 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/76
Grantees still filing
59/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HASBRO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $125,000 · OtherHASBRO CHILDRENS HOSPITALMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $90,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALCUMMINGS JEWISH CENTRE FOR SENIORS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,500 · Other+75 more: $151,700 · Other+75 moreJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $113,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATE…JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $18,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERV…BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR TH…CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $10,800 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND+7 more: $8,500 · Human ServicesVanderbilt University: $47,000 · EducationVanderbilt…WHEATON COLLEGE: $15,500 · EducationWHEATON CO…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Education+6 more: $4,950 · Education+6 moreThe Miriam Hospital Foundation: $19,000 · HealthBUTLER HOSPITAL: $13,500 · HealthCANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF WESTERN MAINE: $4,100 · HealthWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI: $4,000 · Health+5 more: $3,050 · HealthROSIE'S PLACE INC: $20,962 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterTrinity Repertory Company: $11,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LIFE IS GOOD PLAYMAKER PROJECT INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyFOREVER FREEDOM REINS EQUINE RESCUE CORP: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOUNTRY ROADS FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$396,200Human Services$161,800Education$69,950Health$43,650Housing & Shelter$24,462Arts & Culture$15,000Philanthropy$13,000

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 budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $113,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVanderbilt University: $47,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $20,962 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital Foundation: $19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUTLER HOSPITAL: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Repertory Company: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $10,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUTTON HOLE: $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Gordon School: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIFE IS GOOD PLAYMAKER PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKING SOLOMON HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC: $4,750 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF WESTERN MAINE: $4,100 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $3,325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREWEAVE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPROJECT SMILE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA WISH COME TRUE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOUNDLESS FREEDOM PROJECT: $2,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOSTON CHILDREN'S SCHOOL INC: $1,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN SCHOOL: $1,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTEM TO THE FUTURE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOMORROW FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeeting Street: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRISON FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LEARNING PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSupport the Soupman Corp: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $500 over 1y, 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 JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BUTLER HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
  • Who funds BUTTON HOLE ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Gordon School ↗
  • Who funds THE LIFE IS GOOD PLAYMAKER PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds KING SOLOMON HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF WESTERN MAINE ↗
  • Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI ↗
  • Who funds THE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds REWEAVE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS 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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI36.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Eugene P Schwartz Family Foundation · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · The Beacon 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 Joan and Leonard Engle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan and Leonard Engle Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Needham Community Council Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Animal Shelter Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
11report 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 Joan and Leonard Engle Family 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 120 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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