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Marriner S Eccles Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
114
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.8MHealth$2.7MArts & Culture$2.7MHuman Services$1.3MYouth Development$1.0MHousing & Shelter$481kRecreation & Sports$347kFood & Nutrition$342kOther$0
02FY2025 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $245k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $965k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$200,000
UTAH SYMPHONY UTAH OPERA$100,000
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY JANET QUINNEY LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR LAND WATER & AIR$100,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SALT LAKE$80,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ALUMNI$75,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$55,000
ALF ENGEN SKI MUSEUM$55,000
GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC$50,000
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE$50,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$50,000
BALLET WEST$50,000
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY NORA ECCLES HARRISON MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
WASATCH HOMELESS HEALTH CARE DBA FOURTH STREET CLINIC$50,000
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY BINGHAM RESEARCH CENTER$47,000
UTAH'S ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$40,000
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 (FY17–25, $998k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $10k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $10k → 8%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 9%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 9%COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $5k → 12%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $5k → 12%COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $5k → 12%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $6k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $6k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $6k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $6k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $6k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $6k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $9k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $9k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $9k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $10k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $9k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $9k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $9k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $9k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $9k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $9k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $10k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $10k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $126k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $55k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $55k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $40k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $30k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $17k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $10k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $8k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE-ELDER: $8k → 8%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 147 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

147 repeat relationships: 98 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147
16

Total granted

$14M
$1000k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+697%

Still filing today

59%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $846k · revenue +18%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +21%
  • BW
    BALLET WEST
    9× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPENCER FOX ECCLES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2023 · $425k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPENCER F ECCLES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • US
    UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY-COLLEGE OF EDUCATION & HUMAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
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
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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2
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…

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3
The Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.

Community Improvement
4
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

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5
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
6
Utah Arts Academy

Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…

Education
7
Utah Housing Coalition Inc

The promotion of low-income housing within the state of utah.

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8
Comunidades Unidas

We are dedicated to empowering the Latino community in Utah to recognize and achieve their own potential and become a positive force for change in the larger community.

Human Services
9
Southwest Utah Community Health Center

Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.

Health
10
Utah World Trade Center

World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.

Community Improvement
11
Utah Parent Center Inc

Our mission is to help parents help their children, youth and young adults with all disabilities to live included, productive lives as members of the community.

Human Services
12
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Support Center; the most unlike its peers is Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation. 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

96 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. 96 of the 179 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)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/96
Grantees still filing
70/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $1,812,866 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $634,659 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $590,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKEUNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPENCER FOX ECCLES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $425,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH GRADUATE SCHOOL: $400,000 · OtherGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $380,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ALUMNI: $375,000 · Other+117 more: $5,764,700 · Other+117 moreUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $845,508 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY…BALLET WEST: $460,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTDISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $106,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY GAT…GINA BACHAUER INTERNATIONAL PIANO FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Arts & CultureSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY: $83,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $307,500 · Arts & Culture+9 moreWasatch Homeless Health Care: $400,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $175,000 · HealthTHE SHARING PLACE: $155,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $90,000 · HealthPeople's Health Clicnic: $90,000 · HealthALLIANCE HOUSE INC: $80,000 · HealthSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES: $72,000 · HealthMaliheh Free Clinic: $65,000 · HealthFIT TO RECOVER INC: $49,500 · Health+3 more: $52,500 · HealthNeighborhood House Association: $397,898 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $180,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $81,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Indian Services: $50,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urban Center: $43,500 · Human ServicesAdopt-A-Native Elder: $42,500 · Human ServicesCOMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $40,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $35,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $34,000 · Human Services+7 more: $94,000 · Human ServicesJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $192,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $150,000 · International+2 more: $12,500 · InternationalWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $180,000 · EducationBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah: $59,000 · EducationENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTER OF CACHE VALLEY INC: $42,500 · EducationHORIZONTE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $30,000 · Education+2 more: $19,000 · EducationEnvision Utah: $190,000 · Community ImprovementWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $58,500 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITYINC: $53,000 · Community Improvement
Other$10,382,225Arts & Culture$1,892,008Health$1,229,000Human Services$997,898International$354,500Education$330,500Community Improvement$301,500

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 budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $845,508 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $590,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBALLET WEST: $460,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $400,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $397,898 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $380,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah: $210,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $194,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $192,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetEnvision Utah: $190,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $180,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $180,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $175,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHARING PLACE: $155,000 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE: $144,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOGDEN - WEBER TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetUtah Zoological Society: $110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL UTAH FOOD SHARING: $109,900 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetDISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $106,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $99,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS FOR SIGHT: $90,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $90,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $90,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic: $90,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGINA BACHAUER INTERNATIONAL PIANO FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY: $83,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $81,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetALLIANCE HOUSE INC: $80,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES: $72,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH COUNCIL OF THE BLIND: $69,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE: $65,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $65,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah: $59,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $58,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $55,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITYINC: $53,000 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetUTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC: $52,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFIT TO RECOVER INC: $49,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH DISPUTE RESOLUTION: $49,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetTREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $48,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetONSTAGE OGDEN: $47,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHEART & SOUL: $45,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $43,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTER OF CACHE VALLEY INC: $42,500 over 8y, 1.8% 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 UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
  • Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
  • Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
  • Who funds GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho ↗
  • Who funds Envision Utah ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds THE SHARING PLACE ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds OGDEN - WEBER TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Utah Zoological Society ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL UTAH FOOD SHARING ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗

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.

George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT148.3× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips · Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable 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 Marriner S Eccles Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marriner S Eccles Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    51report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Marriner S Eccles Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Marriner S Eccles 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 179 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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