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McLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION

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.

$260k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$272kHuman Services$227kHealth$199kYouth Development$78kFood & Nutrition$51kCommunity Improvement$40kAnimals$40kArts & Culture$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$361k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
South County Youth Coalition$15,000
Las Trampas$15,000
Coachella Valley Rescue Mission$15,000
Bay Area Crisis Nursery$10,000
Bighorn Behind a Miracle$10,000
Care Ring$10,000
The College Preparatory School$10,000
Pink Ribbon Good$10,000
Culinary Angels$7,500
Joybound People and Pets$7,500
Winter Night Family Shelter Inc$7,500
Alzheimer's Assn NorCalNV Chapter$7,500
Elizabeth Dole Foundation$7,500
Vistability$7,500
Read with Me Volunteer Programs$7,500
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, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Brides Across America: $1k → 10%Canine Companions for Independence: $1k → 9%Lighthouse for the Blind: $1k → 10%Frost Valley YMCA: $2k → 16%One Simple Wish: $5k → 11%Comfort Cases: $1k → 8%Extra-Ordinary Birthdays: $1k → 11%Canine Companions for Independence: $1k → 9%Cruces Creatives: $1k → 23%Las Trampas: $15k → 9%Taking the Reins: $1k → 14%Las Trampas: $10k → 9%Las Trampas: $5k → 9%Las Trampas: $5k → 9%Little Miracles Inc: $3k → 10%Little Miracles Inc: $1k → 10%Las Trampas: $1k → 9%Las Trampas: $1k → 9%Las Trampas: $1k → 9%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $15k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $10k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $10k → 11%Las Trampas: $300 → 9%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $3k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $2k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $2k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $1k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $1k → 11%Meals on Wheels-Diablo Region: $8k → 9%Meals on Wheels-Diablo Region: $5k → 9%Meals on Wheels-Diablo Region: $2k → 9%Meals on Wheels-Diablo Region: $2k → 9%Set to Thrive: $3k → 9%Set to Thrive: $1k → 9%Xenophon Therapeutic Riding Center: $3k → 9%Xenophon Therapeutic Riding Center: $1k → 9%Xenophon Therapeutic Riding Center: $1k → 9%Vestia: $5k → 9%Vestia: $3k → 9%Vestia: $3k → 9%Vestia: $3k → 9%Vistability: $8k → 9%Vistability: $5k → 9%Vistability: $5k → 9%Vistability: $3k → 9%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

ME
VT
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$847k · 70 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
93

Total granted

$847k
$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+44%

Still filing today

63%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther

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

  • CV
    COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +140%
  • LT
    Las Trampas School Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +80%
  • TC
    THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SU
    Stanford University Dept 34478
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • UH
    UCSF Helen Diller Fam Compre Cancer
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SU
    Stanford University Engineering
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
5
Sacramento Region Community Foundation

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.

Philanthropy
6
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
7
California Life Sciences Association

Clsa advances californias world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses.

Community Improvement
8
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
9
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
10
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
11
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

12
Pasadena Community Foundation

Pasadena Community Foundation builds and preserves permanently endowed charitable funds, provides grants and assistance to nurture and strengthen community organizations, serves donors to meet their philanthropic goals and promotes and…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Big League Impact 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 backsteadyCancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Independent K-12 SchoolsElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Mentoring ProgramsMilitary Veterans SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacySchool District FoundationsEquine Therapy ProgramsPublic Library OperationsChristian Missionary Organi…Ymca Youth DevelopmentLocal History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity College Foundatio…Community Foundations
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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%13%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/99
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,879

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

93 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. 93 of the 168 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/93
Grantees still filing
73/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAVE LAFAYETTE — $38,000 · OtherSAVE LAFAYETTEClaremont McKenna College - Womens Golf — $30,500 · OtherClaremont McKenna College - Womens GolfChemical Biomolecular Engin Prtnrs — $25,000 · OtherBAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY — $25,000 · OtherBighorn Behind a Miracle — $24,500 · OtherStanford University Dept 34478 — $20,000 · Other+106 more — $378,725 · Other+106 moreCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $44,000 · Human ServicesCOACHELLA VALLEY …Las Trampas School Inc — $38,300 · Human ServicesLas Trampas Schoo…VISTABILITY — $20,500 · Human ServicesVISTABILITYMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION — $16,500 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS D…VESTIA INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesVESTIA INC+14 more — $30,000 · Human Services+14 moreTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $27,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE PRE…University of Illinois Foundation — $25,000 · EducationUniversity of I…Lafayette Partners in Education — $24,500 · EducationLafayette Partn…Read With Me Volunteer Programs — $16,500 · EducationRead With Me Vo…THE GIRLFRIEND FACTOR — $15,500 · EducationTHE GIRLFRIEND …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $12,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TR…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $12,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF W…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationDESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Education+2 more — $3,600 · EducationTHE JACQUALYN PALCHAK CANCER FUND — $22,000 · HealthTHE JACQU…GABLE HEART BEATS FOUNDATION — $20,500 · HealthGABLE HEA…PINK RIBBON GOOD INC — $20,000 · HealthPINK RIBB…Care Ring Inc — $19,000 · HealthCare Ring…+7 more — $9,100 · Health+7 moreSOUTH COUNTY YOUTH COALITION — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMPAIGN ONE AT A TIME — $4,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCulinary Angels — $12,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $9,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $5,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $5,000 · Food & NutritionCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION — $13,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $4,250 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $4,000 · Public BenefitTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America — $2,500 · Public BenefitBLACK HORSE FORGE INC — $2,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$541,725Human Services$162,800Education$146,600Health$90,600Youth Development$72,500Food & Nutrition$32,000Public Benefit$30,250

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 budgetSOUTH COUNTY YOUTH COALITION — $45,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $44,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLas Trampas School Inc — $38,300 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY — $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLafayette Partners in Education — $24,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACQUALYN PALCHAK CANCER FUND — $22,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetVISTABILITY — $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGABLE HEART BEATS FOUNDATION — $20,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCare Ring Inc — $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION — $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRead With Me Volunteer Programs — $16,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GIRLFRIEND FACTOR — $15,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVESTIA INC — $13,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWinter Nights Family Shelter Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCulinary Angels — $12,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAchievement For All Children — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Ramon Library Foundation — $8,500 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKQED INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE POLICE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetDESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENERATIONS IN JAZZ FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetXENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFieldHaven Feline Center — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPAIGN ONE AT A TIME — $4,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Miracles Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSET TO THRIVE — $3,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlamo Women's Club — $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRICHMOND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC — $3,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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 SOUTH COUNTY YOUTH COALITION
  • Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds Las Trampas School Inc
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation
  • Who funds BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY
  • Who funds Lafayette Partners in Education
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO
  • Who funds THE JACQUALYN PALCHAK CANCER FUND
  • Who funds VISTABILITY
  • Who funds GABLE HEART BEATS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC
  • Who funds Care Ring Inc
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION
  • Who funds Read With Me Volunteer Programs
  • Who funds THE GIRLFRIEND FACTOR
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE
  • Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds VESTIA INC
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc
  • Who funds Culinary Angels
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Achievement For All Children

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.

Lowell Berry FoundationCA25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lowell Berry Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Heffernan Group Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Barlow Family Foundation · Cheng's 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 McLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION 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 · 30%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Comfort Cases Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
19report 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, 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.

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 168 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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