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Koch Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
173
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$533k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$5.7MPhilanthropy$2.8MArts & Culture$2.2MHealth$2.1MHuman Services$1.2MReligion$1.2MHousing & Shelter$776kYouth Development$407kOther$0
02FY2025 · 173 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k121 grants · $266k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $531k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.1M
$2,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW IN$533,250
ST BENEDICT CHURCH$401,500
EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS and SCIENCE$360,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA$262,394
MATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL$258,750
KOCH FAMILY CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF EVILLE$256,500
REITZ MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL$179,500
ANNUNCIATION SCHOOL$120,500
EASTER SEALS SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA$109,500
UNITED WAY OF HENDERSON COUNTY$105,867
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE$88,740
BUILDING BLOCKS$75,000
VANDERBURGH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$63,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA$53,140
USI FOUNDATION$52,900
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 (FY20–25, $610k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%CAMP KESEM: $1k → 14%ISAIAH 117 PROJECT: $2k → 10%Early Childhood Alliance: $5k → 12%Foster Care in the US: $5k → 15%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%The Kaufman Fund: $15k → 11%Alex and Ali Foundation Inc: $1k → 8%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%HealthNetwork Foundation: $4k → 17%Health Network Foundation: $3k → 17%HealthNetwork Foundation: $3k → 17%Health Network Foundation: $3k → 17%MAKE A WISH FDN OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $2k → 11%SWIRCA and MORE: $50k → 15%ALEX AND ALI FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 7%Indiana Guide Right Foundation: $5k → 16%Carver Community Organization: $9k → 15%CARVER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $5k → 15%Carver Community Organization: $5k → 15%Peace Zone: $3k → 15%Peace Zone: $3k → 15%EASTER SEALS SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA: $110k → 15%Easter Seals of Southwestern Indiana: $105k → 15%Easter Seals of Southwestern Indiana: $105k → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center: $35k → 15%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER: $28k → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center: $8k → 15%EASTER SEALS SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA: $7k → 15%Aurora: $6k → 15%Aurora: $5k → 15%Easter Seals of Southwestern Indian: $5k → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center: $5k → 15%AURORA: $5k → 15%LAMPION CENTER: $4k → 15%LAMPION CENTER: $4k → 15%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER: $3k → 15%Lampion Center: $3k → 15%Lampion Center: $3k → 15%Touch Inc: $3k → 15%Lampion Center: $3k → 15%Lampion Center: $2k → 15%Aurora: $2k → 15%Easter Seals of Southwestern Indian: $2k → 15%Aurora: $2k → 15%YWCA: $7k → 15%YWCA: $5k → 15%YWCA: $5k → 15%Hospitality and Outreach for Latin American: $3k → 15%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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CA
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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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 191 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

191 repeat relationships: 120 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

191
139

Total granted

$16M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+7%

Still filing today

48%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $398k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +7%
  • LJ
    LOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $587k · revenue +72% · 40% of their budget
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $449k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medic
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • SM
    St Meinrad Archabbey School
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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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Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
2
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
3
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
4
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
Indiana Association of United Ways Inc

Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.

Philanthropy
6
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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7
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
8
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
9
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.

Community Improvement
10
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
The Jackson County United Way Inc

Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.

Philanthropy
12
Indiana Organ Procurement Organization Inc

In 2024, indiana organ procurement organization d.b.a indiana network facilitated 1388 organ transplants from 509 organ donors leading to 1,216 lives saved. additionally, 1,669 tissue and cornea donors gave the gift of healing and sight,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Newburgh Area Food Pantry 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

178 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. 178 of the 384 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)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
174/178
Grantees still filing
100/178
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana Univ School of Medicine: $1,008,000 · OtherIndiana Univ School of MedicineJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW IN: $807,970 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW INReitz Memorial Catholic High School: $741,350 · OtherReitz Memorial Catholic High SchoolMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL: $554,700 · OtherMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOLKOCH FAMILY CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF EVILLE: $513,500 · OtherST BENEDICT CATHOLIC CHURCH TERRE HAUTE INC: $506,500 · OtherIndiana University School of Medic: $500,000 · OtherUnited Way of Southwestern IN: $482,458 · Other+134 more: $5,255,484 · Other+134 moreUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $1,543,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $252,500 · EducationIVY TECH FOUND…SIGNATURE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $225,664 · EducationSIGNATURE SCHO…+10 more: $156,097 · Education+10 moreUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $985,005 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …United Way of Henderson County: $658,509 · PhilanthropyUnited Way …+8 more: $177,157 · Philanthropy+8 moreLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC: $586,776 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE: $540,920 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL: $106,750 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE P-47 FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $54,450 · Arts & CultureHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE: $449,240 · Housing & ShelterHabitat For Humanity of Henderson: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $50,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterEASTER SEALS SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INCORP: $333,000 · Human ServicesEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $79,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWESTERN INDIANA REGIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC DBA SWIRCA & MORE: $50,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC: $20,370 · Human Services+9 more: $96,650 · Human ServicesGRANTED INC: $93,650 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR BETTER HEALTH INC: $85,000 · HealthDEACONESS HOSPITAL INC: $57,050 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,000 · HealthNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,140 · HealthPREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $10,869 · Health+3 more: $22,720 · Health
Other$10,369,962Education$2,177,361Philanthropy$1,820,671Arts & Culture$1,338,896Housing & Shelter$604,240Human Services$600,520Health$314,429

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $1,543,100 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $985,005 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetUnited Way of Henderson County: $658,509 over 6y, 23% of budgetLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC: $586,776 over 2y, 40% of budgetEVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE: $540,920 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE: $449,240 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INCORP: $333,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $252,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSIGNATURE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $225,664 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC: $152,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEVANSVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $140,780 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetEVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $114,600 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetEVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL: $106,750 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $100,300 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHabitat For Humanity of Henderson: $100,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGRANTED INC: $93,650 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetThe Potter's Wheel Inc: $93,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BETTER HEALTH INC: $85,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $79,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetDEACONESS HOSPITAL INC: $57,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN INDIANA REGIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC DBA SWIRCA & MORE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMISSION FIRST INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEVANSVILLE P-47 FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetHENDERSON CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetEVSC FOUNDATION INC: $41,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetKEEP EVANSVILLE BEAUTIFUL INC: $40,500 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetEVANSVILLE DAY SCHOOL INC: $37,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMARIAN EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH: $35,500 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $31,656 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHENDERSON AREA ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIGHT TO LIFE OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA: $24,410 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INC: $23,791 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $23,779 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASTLE BAND BOOSTERS INC: $23,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCANCER PATHWAYS MIDWEST: $23,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetNEXTECHORG INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC: $20,370 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,140 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAUDUBON KIDS ZONE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEQUAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLS: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARVER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $19,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAURORA INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLAMPION CENTER INC: $17,650 over 6y, 0.4% 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 UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Henderson County ↗
  • Who funds LOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INCORP ↗
  • Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SIGNATURE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds EVANSVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds EVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Habitat For Humanity of Henderson ↗
  • Who funds GRANTED INC ↗
  • Who funds The Potter's Wheel Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BETTER HEALTH 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.

Cecil a and Mabel Len…Welborn Baptist Found…Community Foundation …Centerpoint Energy Fo…Evansville Endowment …The Bower-Suhrheinric…Gerling Family Founda…Braun Family Foundati…Holiday Management Fo…Bussing-Koch Foundati…West Side Nut Club IncDeaconess Hospital Inc
Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation IncIN94.1× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Gerling Family Foundation Inc · Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust Co · Holiday Management Foundation · Bussing-Koch Foundation Inc · West Side Nut Club Inc · Deaconess Hospital 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 Koch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Koch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oklahoma Christian University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
50report 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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How do I get to Koch Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Koch Foundation Inc 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 384 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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