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Kennedy Wilson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Kennedy Wilson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Public Benefit$2.2MEducation$2.1MInternational$2.0MRecreation & Sports$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MHealth$742kPublic Safety & Disaster$730kYouth Development$664kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $270k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$658k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$500,000
BRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY USA$125,000
KIIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION INC$100,000
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$50,000
THE MILKIN INSTITUTE$50,000
PENFED FOUNDATION$30,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR$25,000
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST (MS GIFT)$25,000
THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA$20,000
LEAP CHARITIES INC$20,000
BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING INC (BCIU)$20,000
LOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM$20,000
JESSE TREE OF IDAHO$15,000
PALISADES WILL ROGERS 5 & 10K RUN FOUNDATION$15,000
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 (FY18–25, $491k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE TO COMMUNITIYS HOMELESS (CATCH INC): $30k → 8%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $10k → 11%CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE TO COMMUNITIES HOMELESS (CATCH): $20k → 8%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE TO COMMUNITY'S HOMELESS (CATCH): $10k → 8%CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE TO COMMUNITY'S HOMELESS (CATCH): $5k → 8%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $15k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $15k → 14%JESSE TREE OF IDAHO: $20k → 8%JESSE TREE OF IDAHO: $15k → 8%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $3k → 14%Burbank Temporary Aid Center: $5k → 14%MARYVALE: $2k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%US Vets: $5k → 14%US VETS: $5k → 14%US Vets: $5k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $10k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $5k → 14%YOUNG EISNERS SCHOLARS: $10k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $120k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%Union Rescue Mission: $5k → 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

WA
ID
MT
IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10.0M · 73 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
100

Total granted

$10.0M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+17%

Still filing today

63%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $793k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • BH
    BRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY USA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $958k · revenue +18% · 64% of their budget
  • CH
    CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2023 · $740k · revenue +0% · 32% of their budget
  • TA
    THINSPACE AFRICA
    4× · 2018–2021 · $594k · revenue +388% · 72% of their budget

Funded once

  • CH
    CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION (C4 FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2021 · $805k
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +0%
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
8
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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9
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
10
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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11
Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028

The organization aims to benefit the residents of the united states through the planning, promotion and staging of the xxxiv olympiad and the xviii paralympic games.

Recreation & Sports
12
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Thinspace Africa. 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

105 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. 105 of the 193 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/105
Grantees still filing
70/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION (C4 FOUNDATION): $805,000 · OtherCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION (C4 FOUNDATION)CANADIAN RED CROSS: $500,000 · OtherCANADIAN RED CROSSTHE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA: $427,030 · OtherANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION: $410,000 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherMokusuikaua Church: $400,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $321,000 · OtherNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $525,000 · OtherNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC+143 more: $4,793,222 · Other+143 moreBRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY USA: $958,067 · Public Safety & DisasterBRINGING HO…LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLOS ANGELES…PALISADES WILL ROGERS 5 & 10 K RUN FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPALISADES W…LOS ANGELES SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION: $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsLOS ANGEL…THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $225,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE LOS A…+4 more: $16,500 · Recreation & SportsCOLLEGE TRACK: $225,000 · EducationCOLLEGE T…Teach for America Inc: $185,000 · EducationTeach for…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $173,892 · EducationUNIVERSIT…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $150,000 · EducationCALIFORNI…The Panetta Institute for Public Policy: $110,000 · EducationThe Panet…THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $100,000 · EducationTHE RONAL…KIIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationKIIN BEH …UCLA FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationUCLA FOUN…MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Education+3 more: $60,000 · EducationTHINSPACE AFRICA: $593,634 · InternationalLEAP CHARITIES INC: $110,000 · InternationalMARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA: $50,000 · International+4 more: $73,500 · InternationalCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION: $740,000 · Public BenefitMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,000 · Public BenefitLAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyROD DEDEAUX FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE KOHANAIKI FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropySAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE: $50,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $54,500 · Philanthropy
Other$8,581,252Public Safety & Disaster$1,548,067Recreation & Sports$1,241,500Education$1,228,892International$827,134Public Benefit$775,000Philanthropy$579,500

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 budgetLOS ANGELES SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION: $1,000,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetBRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY USA: $958,067 over 4y, 64% of budgetCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION: $740,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetTHINSPACE AFRICA: $593,634 over 4y, 72% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $525,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $225,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $185,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $185,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $173,892 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLEAP CHARITIES INC: $110,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetThe Panetta Institute for Public Policy: $110,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $105,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $101,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAll Eagles Oscar Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVETS ADVOCACY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetPALISADES WILL ROGERS 5 & 10 K RUN FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KOHANAIKI FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATCH INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetInner City Law Center: $52,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER: $35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JESSE TREE OF IDAHO INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Rams Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUP FOR GROWTH: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetIMERMAN ANGELS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 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 LOS ANGELES SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION ↗
  • Who funds BRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY USA ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THINSPACE AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
  • Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds ROD DEDEAUX FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEAP CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Panetta Institute for Public Policy ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds All Eagles Oscar Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds VETS ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds KIIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ralph M Parsons F…Jewish Community Foun…Martha & Irv Kaplan F…Weingart FoundationWm Keck FoundationCedars-Sinai Medical …Pasadena Community Fo…
California Community FoundationCA29.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Pasadena Community 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 Kennedy Wilson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kennedy Wilson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
23report 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 Kennedy Wilson Charitable 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 193 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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