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Lyche Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$697k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$909kArts & Culture$674kHealth$453kEducation$339kYouth Development$271kPhilanthropy$215kHousing & Shelter$164kReligion$145kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $177k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA CROSSE COMMUNITY THEATER$325,000
ONALASKA COMMUNITY CENTER$100,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER$50,000
LA CROSSE AREA FAMILY YMCA$45,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSSE INC$34,353
COULEECAP INC$25,500
ONALASKA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$15,500
VITERBO COLLEGE INC$14,000
SALVATION ARMY$12,945
GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY$10,175
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$10,000
UNITED WAY$10,000
ALS FOUNDATION$5,000
PAUL AND JILL KULIG FAMILY FUND$5,000
UNITED FUND FOR THE ARTS & HUMANITIES$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $561k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MYTEAM TRIUMPH: $1k → 10%MYTEAM TRIUMPH: $1k → 10%MYTEAM TRIUMPH: $1k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $75k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $29k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $3k → 11%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $125k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $70k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $30k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 12%GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 59 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
27

Total granted

$3.2M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+26%

Still filing today

63%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FA
    FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +25%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $243k · revenue +299%
  • VU
    VITERBO UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • OE
    ONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $27k · revenue +28%
  • OA
    ONALASKA ART KEEPERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Wisconsin La Crosse - Alumni Association

To support university of wisconsin la crosse by building and maintaining relationships among students, alumni, friends and the university.

2
Greater La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc
Education
3
Federation of International Lacrosse Inc

World lacrosse is the international olympic committee recognized international federation for the sport of lacrosse. as such, it governs the sport globally working with 90+ member national governing bodies and four (4) currently recognized…

Recreation & Sports
4
Us Lacrosse Inc

Usa lacrosse is the governing body of men's and women's lacrosse in the united states. with over 415,000 members across the country, usa lacrosse provides leadership, structure and resources to fuel lacrosse's growth and enrich the…

Recreation & Sports
5
Co-Op Credit Union

Serving our members, where they are, through all stages of life.

6
Greater La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce

To be a progressive business resource, growing companies and developing leaders through collaboration, advocacy, information, and services that benefit current and future businesses.

7
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

8
La Crosse Performing Arts Center Inc

The weber center for the performing arts is a collaborative venue supporting the missions of la crosse community theatre and viterbo university. the weber center serves as a performance and administrative center for la crosse community…

Arts & Culture
9
Lawrence University of Wisconsin

Lawrence university of wisconsin, through its undergraduate residential college and conservatory of music, educates students in the liberal arts and sciences. the university is devoted to excellence and integrity in all of its activities…

Education
10
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
11
La Crosse Area Development Corp

The purpose of the corporation shall be to actively facilitate and promote economic development and business retention in the la crosse area. this shall be accomplished by focusing on the "triad of development": the attraction of industry,…

12
Lake Superior Community Health Center

To improve access to quality health care for all.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Crosse Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports LeaguesRegional Community Foundati…Disability Services Organiz…Professional Trade Associat…Medical Research and Health…Senior Residential CarePublic Charter SchoolsProfessional Trade Associat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr14%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr14%63%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
13%
1,864/14,471

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 96 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
45/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC — $164,100 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INCONALASKA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $144,900 · OtherONALASKA UNITED METHODIST CHURCHLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc — $138,250 · OtherLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christi…SALVATION ARMY — $102,998 · OtherSALVATION ARMYONALASKA COMMUNITY CENTER — $100,000 · OtherONALASKA COMMUNITY CENTERLA CROSSE COMMUNITY THEATER — $77,500 · OtherLA CROSSE COMMUNITY THEATERROTARY WORKS FOUNDATION INC — $64,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherHunger Task Force of La Crosse Inc — $56,000 · Other+54 more — $337,800 · Other+54 moreFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $450,050 · Human ServicesFAMILY AND CHILDRE…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $107,421 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTI…+3 more — $4,100 · Human ServicesLa Crosse Community Theatre — $330,000 · Arts & CultureLa Crosse Commun…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC — $151,600 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEU…IRISHFEST - LA CROSSE INC — $22,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $13,035 · Arts & CultureCOULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC — $250,500 · HealthCOULEE COUNC…Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc — $133,550 · HealthGundersen Lu…ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 · Health+3 more — $4,075 · HealthVITERBO UNIVERSITY — $223,500 · EducationVITERBO U…ONALASKA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $53,400 · EducationONALASKA …UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $11,800 · Education+1 more — $6,000 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS — $242,680 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC — $94,975 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $55,000 · PhilanthropyONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 · PhilanthropyEAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $22,750 · PhilanthropyLA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,295,548Human Services$561,571Arts & Culture$516,635Health$403,125Education$294,700Youth Development$243,680Philanthropy$213,225

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $450,050 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetLa Crosse Community Theatre — $330,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCOULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC — $250,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS — $242,680 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetVITERBO UNIVERSITY — $223,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC — $164,100 over 6y, 27% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC — $151,600 over 8y, 16% of budgetLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc — $138,250 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc — $133,550 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $107,421 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC — $94,975 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetROTARY WORKS FOUNDATION INC — $64,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetHunger Task Force of La Crosse Inc — $56,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetONALASKA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $53,400 over 6y, 28% of budgetLA CROSSE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetAPTIV INC — $37,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOULEECAP INC — $29,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC — $27,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRIVERFEST INC — $26,425 over 6y, 10% of budgetEAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $22,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIRISHFEST - LA CROSSE INC — $22,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $11,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER — $11,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - LA CROSSE ALUMNI & FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED FUND FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES — $10,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetUND Alumni Association and Foundation — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY-ST JOSEPH CORPORATION — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMYTEAM TRIUMPH WISCONSIN INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PARENTING PLACE INC — $2,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF LA CROSSE INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetClearwater Foundation Inc — $2,050 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER LA CROSSE INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC — $735 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF COULEE REGION RSVP INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUXEMBOURG AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION — $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER CITY YOUTH HOCKEY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
  • Who funds La Crosse Community Theatre
  • Who funds COULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS
  • Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC
  • Who funds La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc
  • Who funds Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH
  • Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC
  • Who funds ROTARY WORKS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Hunger Task Force of La Crosse Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST
  • Who funds ONALASKA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC
  • Who funds LA CROSSE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds APTIV INC
  • Who funds COULEECAP INC
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds ONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds RIVERFEST INC
  • Who funds EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds IRISHFEST - LA CROSSE INC
  • Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds LA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - LA CROSSE ALUMNI & FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UNITED FUND FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

La Crosse Community FoundationWI67.6× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: La Crosse Community Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · Alm Charities Inc · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Trust Point Foundation Inc Xxxxxx2342

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Lyche Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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    How do I get to Lyche Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lyche Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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