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Lyford Cay Foundation Inc

Lyford cay foundation, inc.

$732k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$150k
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $431,770, the rows itemized in this filing. The $731,668 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $299,898 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $394k
$15,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY$30,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$30,000
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI$20,000
KETTERING UNIVERSITY$19,500
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS$15,000
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
AVERETT UNIVERSITY$15,000
BARD COLLEGE$15,000
LYNN UNIVERSITY$15,000
HARTWICK COLLEGE$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $15k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $15k → 10%BOSTON CONSERVATORY AT BERKLEE: $15k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $30k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $30k → 10%BARD COLLEGE: $15k → 9%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $15k → 13%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS THE: $15k → 17%BROOKLYN COLLEGE: $15k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $15k → 8%MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 16%PIMA MEDICAL INSTITUTE: $15k → 16%ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY: $28k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: $15k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $60k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: $15k → 15%SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY TECH: $15k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $15k → 19%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%FLAGLER COLLEGE: $15k → 6%FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 10%NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA: $15k → 10%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $22k → 11%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY: $29k → 12%FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $25k → 16%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY - FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $20k → 11%JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $20k → 22%NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 12%GLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION: $150k → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $30k → 10%MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $30k → 14%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $35k → 13%FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $253k → 15%FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $25k → 16%JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 16%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $96k → 15%JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 16%JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%KEISER UNIVERSITY: $20k → 13%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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Grants abroad, by region: $215k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$113k · 53% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

Central America and the Caribbean$72k · 34% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION · GRANT ASSISTANCE FOR OPERATING SUPPORT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$30k · 14% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 70 repeat orgs$744k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
37

Total granted

$3.3M
$656k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+6%

Still filing today

53%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
EducationInternationalHealthOther
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

  • FM
    Florida Memorial University Inc
    2× · 2018–2020 · $268k · revenue +28%
  • FS
    FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +31%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $90k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • GE
    GLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +138%
  • FM
    FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $96k
  • OR
    ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +58%
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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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
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Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
7
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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Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
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William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
10
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Global Emergency Relief Recovery and Reconstruction. 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

58 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. 58 of the 114 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)
56/58
Grantees still filing
45/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Florida Memorial University Inc: $268,000 · EducationFlorida Memorial University IncJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $185,000 · EducationJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITYFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $95,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $75,000 · EducationNova Southeastern University Inc: $72,500 · Education+44 more: $1,338,685 · Education+44 moreMidwestern State University: $257,500 · OtherMidwestern State UniversityREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $105,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELE…FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $95,500 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $87,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $82,500 · Other+57 more: $1,197,875 · Other+57 moreGLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION: $150,000 · InternationalRush University Medical Center: $30,000 · Health
Education$2,124,185Other$1,825,375International$150,000Health$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFlorida Memorial University Inc: $268,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $185,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION: $150,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $72,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAVERETT UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $59,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $51,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKettering University: $49,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $48,770 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $33,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEckerd College: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY: $28,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $26,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $26,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING HILL COLLEGE: $21,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSamford University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLewis University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNew College of Florida Development Corporation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS COLLEGE CAMPUS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chicago School of Professional Psychology: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $15,000 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 Florida Memorial University Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AVERETT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Hartwick College ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds Kettering University ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Folds of Honor FoundationOK45.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · National Academy of Sciences · University of Miami · The Aspen Institute Inc · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · I Car Education Foundation · The Miami Foundation 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 Lyford Cay Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lyford Cay Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%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%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Florida Memorial University Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Southeastern University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oral Roberts University: 0% of income from government
  • Barry University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
  • Pensacola Christian College Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report 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 Lyford Cay 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 114 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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