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Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc

The martha's vineyard community foundation, inc., successor to the permanent endowment fund for martha's vineyard, the island's community foundation, puts charitable contributions to work for the people of martha's vineyard by making grants that address community needs, funding scholarships for island students, and budiling an endowment…

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$556k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202024.

Food & Nutrition$2.3MHuman Services$708kEnvironment$582kYouth Development$338kHealth$238kArts & Culture$205kHousing & Shelter$180kEducation$160kRecreation & Sports$155kOther$2.0M
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 42 grants below total $1,528,451 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,973,760 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $445,309 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $535k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $365k
  • $250k+1 grant · $556k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE$555,662
CHAPPAQUIDDICK COMMUNITY CENTER$128,500
MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS AND$101,568
CHILMARK POND FOUNDATION$75,000
FEDERATED CHURCH OF MARTHA'S VINEYA$60,000
ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION$46,500
HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD$41,015
MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL$32,343
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF$28,000
MV OCEAN ACADEMY$27,500
MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMISSION$26,723
MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S$25,000
HARBOR HOMES OF MV$25,000
COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF CAPE$25,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE$24,870
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $708k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $7k → 7%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE: $146k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING: $101k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE: $59k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING: $58k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE: $56k → 8%HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $55k → 8%HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $41k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING: $25k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE: $25k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE: $21k → 8%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MV: $19k → 8%HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $16k → 8%GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $12k → 8%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MV: $11k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING: $10k → 8%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MV: $10k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING: $10k → 8%HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $9k → 8%GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $6k → 8%GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 8%HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $5k → 8%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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.3M · 42 repeat orgs$553k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
19

Total granted

$6.3M
$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+21%

Still filing today

88%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

  • IG
    ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +176%
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $419k · revenue +46%
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $338k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $29k · revenue +21%
  • IF
    ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC
    one grant, 2020 · $29k · revenue 0%
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD PARISH
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

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
V G C Foundation Inc

The purpose of the foundation is to collect and distribute donations for charitable purposes on the island of martha's vineyard.

Philanthropy
2
Martha's Vineyard Community Television Inc

To produce public, education, and governmental (peg) access programming for the residents and organizations of the six communities of the island of martha's vineyard. in addition, the organization allocates channel space and time to…

Arts & Culture
3
Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha's Vineyard

The permanent endowment fund for martha's vineyard, the island's community foundation, puts charitable contributions to work for the people of martha's vineyard by makig grants that address community needs, funding scholarships for island…

4
Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc
Education
5
Marthas Vineyard Beachgoers Access Group Inc

Mission to advocate for continued broad and affordable public beach access for residents and visitors of Marthas Vineyard alike while being mindful of the environmental conservation and preservation that makes these places special History…

6
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc

Martha's vineyard playhouse is a professional, non-profit working theater dedicated to inspiring, enriching and entertaining our diverse island community. we believe that theater has the power to transform lives.

7
Vineyard Lands for Our Community Inc C/O Philip Wallis

Vineyard lands for our community inc. (the organization) is a charitable educational and community organization that is actively engaged in solving island-wide needs with sustainable and viable solutions to preserve the character and life…

Arts & Culture
8
Mv Vision Fellowship Fund

To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.

Education
9
Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
10
Care for the Cape & Islands Inc

To facilitate the protection of the unique nature of cape cod, martha's vineyard and nantucket islands area and promote community improvements through responsible business practices, economic development and stewardship of the natural…

Environment
11
Island Affordable Housing Fund Inc

To promote affordable housing on the island of Martha's Vineyard and other charitable and educational purposes in such a manner that the Corporation will qualify as an exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue…

Housing & Shelter
12
The Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Inc

Fostering creative writing

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waltham West Suburban Chamber of Commerc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%6%<5yr13%7%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr25%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr10%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr13%10%5–10yr20%47%10–20yr25%8%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr10%20%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
9%
26/299

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

52 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. 52 of the 67 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
38/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD — $2,309,671 · Food & NutritionISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTDDUKES COUNTY REGIONAL HOUSING — $530,775 · OtherDUKES COUNTY REGIONAL HOUSINGMARTHA'S VINEYARD LAND BANK — $524,673 · OtherMARTHA'S VINEYARD LAND BANKMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $144,814 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMISSION — $92,303 · OtherHARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC — $110,650 · OtherCHAPPAQUIDDICK COMMUNITY CENTER — $128,500 · Other+36 more — $931,968 · Other+36 moreMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $418,870 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VI…MARTHAS VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING INC — $204,383 · Human ServicesMARTHAS VIN…HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S — $45,496 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF …+3 more — $39,020 · Human Services+3 moreCHILMARK POND FOUNDATION INC — $317,427 · EnvironmentCHILMARK …MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $85,000 · EnvironmentMARTHA'S …SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $71,304 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $43,400 · EnvironmentMASSACHUS…The Great Pond Foundation Inc — $29,500 · EnvironmentSASSAFRAS EARTH EDUCATION INC — $21,900 · Environment+1 more — $13,815 · EnvironmentMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $338,119 · Youth DevelopmentISLAND HEALTH INC — $127,300 · HealthHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC — $80,000 · HealthISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC — $31,000 · HealthSAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC — $40,500 · Arts & CultureCIRCUIT ARTS INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $29,179 · Arts & CultureAQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC — $24,500 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD DIVERSITY COALITION CHARITABLE TRUST — $24,339 · Arts & CultureTHE YARD INC — $21,500 · Arts & Culture
Food & Nutrition$2,309,671Other$2,463,683Human Services$707,769Environment$582,346Youth Development$338,119Health$238,300Arts & Culture$205,018

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD — $2,309,671 over 5y, 13% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $418,870 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $338,119 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCHILMARK POND FOUNDATION INC — $317,427 over 3y, 48% of budgetMARTHAS VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING INC — $204,383 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCHAPPAQUIDDICK COMMUNITY CENTER — $128,500 over 1y, 44% of budgetISLAND HEALTH INC — $127,300 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC — $110,650 over 5y, 25% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $85,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR UNDERWAY EXPERIENTIA L LEARNING INC — $79,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $71,304 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD SHELLFISH GROUP INC — $57,546 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetVINEYARD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $51,700 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION — $46,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S — $45,496 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF CAPE COD & ISLANDS INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $43,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC — $40,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCIRCUIT ARTS INC — $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER INC — $35,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC — $34,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC — $31,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Great Pond Foundation Inc — $29,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRED STOCKING FUND INC — $29,182 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $29,179 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC — $29,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetISLAND ELDERLY HOUSING INC — $26,249 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV — $25,700 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC — $25,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC — $24,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $23,170 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetHAVENSIDE CORPORATION — $22,850 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSASSAFRAS EARTH EDUCATION INC — $21,900 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE YARD INC — $21,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP — $20,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetSOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES LEGAL SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Sexual Wellness Inc — $16,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $15,303 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIODIVERSITYWORKS INC — $13,815 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC — $13,231 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Donors Collaborative Inc — $13,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MEDIATION PROGRAM INC — $8,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC — $7,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC — $6,850 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation IncMA63.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · South Mountain Company Foundation · Slough Farm Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha's Vineyard · Tower Family Fund Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mv Vision Fellowship Fund · The Couch Family Foundation

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 Martha's Vineyard Community 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Health Imperatives Inc79% of income from government
  • Island Health Inc77% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Mediation Program Inc71% of income from government
  • Marthas Vineyard Center for Living Inc40% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc34% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc30% of income from government
  • The Yard Inc28% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc11% of income from government
  • Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's5% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc4% of income from government
  • Sassafras Earth Education Inc3% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc3% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation2% of income from government
  • Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc1% of income from government
  • Island Housing Trust Corporation1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc1% of income from government
  • Circuit Arts Inc1% of income from government
  • Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc1% of income from government
  • Friends of Mvyradio Inc1% of income from government
  • Biodiversityworks Inc0% of income from government
  • Island Grown Initiative Ltd0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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 Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Martha's Vineyard Community 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 67 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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