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Midland States Bank Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$534k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$1.1MHuman Services$446kEducation$249kHealth$244kRecreation & Sports$202kHousing & Shelter$153kFood & Nutrition$99kYouth Development$96kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $188k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $197k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$581k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP$150,000
SILVER CROSS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
NEW CITY FELLOWSHIP DBA RESTORE ST LOUIS$20,000
DELMAR DIVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$20,000
ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION - INDOOR EQUINE CENTER$15,000
ROCKFORD PROMISE$15,000
RIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$15,000
ROCKFORD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$15,000
BLACKHAWK AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$11,900
NATIONAL HOOKUP OF BLACK WOMEN INC$10,000
ALMOST HOME INC$10,000
EVANS PARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION$10,000
CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORP$10,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS STATELINE AREA$10,000
SAUK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%YOUTH IN NEED: $5k → 5%SIMPLE ROOM: $6k → 12%C-U AT HOME: $10k → 19%THE SIMPLE ROOM: $6k → 12%SIMPLE ROOM: $5k → 12%LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $20k → 12%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%THE RESTORE NETWORK: $3k → 12%WESLEY HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 21%CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $30k → 9%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $8k → 15%MORNING STAR MISSION: $3k → 7%CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORP: $10k → 9%SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 7%FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $6k → 9%FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $13k → 15%SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 7%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 9%SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 7%SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 7%CARPENTER'S PLACE: $5k → 15%CORNERSTONE SERVICES INC: $8k → 7%FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $3k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICES: $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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 34% of Midland States Bank Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 52% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Midland States Bank Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 29 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
97

Total granted

$1.5M
$962k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+17%

Still filing today

59%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k 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 ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • MI
    MIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP
    7× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +66%
  • CN
    CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +162%
  • WG
    WILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +463%

Funded once

  • MI
    MIDLAND INSTITURE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • MG
    METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +76%

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
Central Illinois Services

To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…

2
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
3
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
4
Community Workshop & Training Center Inc

Our central Illinois organization provides programs and services to adults with disabilities; enriching their quality of life, promoting social change, and optimizing their potential for independence.

Human Services
5
Illinois Institute for Children

Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care

Human Services
6
Respond Now

Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.

Human Services
7
Community Needs of Chillicothe Illinois Inc

Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.

8
Inner City Mission of Springfield

The mission of inner city mission is to provide what is needed to help homeless children, their parents, and single women find their way home.

Religion
9
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
10
West Central Illinois Case Coordination Unit

To promptly and efficiently promote and provide a wide array of programs to meet the needs of the elderly, their families and those who care for them in a confidential and professional manner.

Unclassified
11
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
12
Illinois Coalition for Community Services

To provide support and assistance to community driven programs and services that seek to improve the quality of life for youth, families and communities.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Family Life Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hands of Hope Illinois. 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 backsteadyMember Recreation ClubsSt. Louis Community Develop…Regional Economic Developme…Fraternal Service Organizat…Charter and Independent Sch…Comprehensive Social Servic…Professional Trade Associat…Disability-Focused Affordab…Faith-Based Social ServicesHospital Systems and Health…
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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr15%32%35–55yr17%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%58%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr17%11%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/90
the rest of the field
15%
7,140/47,359

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.

05the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 158 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/82
Grantees still filing
53/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MIDLAND INSTITURE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $150,000 · OtherMIDLAND INSTITURE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIPMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC — $50,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY-EFFINGHAM SPORTSBACKERS — $50,000 · OtherEIU FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Other+105 more — $978,036 · Other+105 moreMIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP — $800,000 · EducationMIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURS…+7 more — $72,500 · Education+7 moreCRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY — $127,300 · HealthWILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC — $50,000 · Health+3 more — $6,500 · HealthCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesSPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesLEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE SIMPLE ROOM — $17,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PEACE CENTER — $12,500 · Human ServicesWesley House Association — $10,000 · Human ServicesC-U AT HOME — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY LIFE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC — $8,300 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE SERVICES INC — $7,700 · Human ServicesBARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE — $7,500 · Human Services+7 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesDELMAR DIVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY — $15,000 · Community ImprovementWILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementREBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS — $7,500 · Community ImprovementKankakee Riverfront Society Inc — $7,500 · Community ImprovementSMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER — $7,500 · Community ImprovementALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC — $7,500 · Community ImprovementCARRIE LYNN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $5,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $6,000 · Community ImprovementROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EnvironmentBALLARD FAMILY NATURE CENTER INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentSauk Valley Foodbank — $10,000 · Food & NutritionMISS CARLY'S INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionILLINOIS VALLEY FOOD PANTRY — $2,500 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD BASKET — $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,378,036Education$872,500Health$183,800Human Services$178,000Community Improvement$96,000Environment$40,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

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 budgetMIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP — $800,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY — $127,300 over 7y, 11% of budgetWILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC — $50,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSwedishAmerican Health Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDELMAR DIVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE SIMPLE ROOM — $17,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetROCKFORD PROMISE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLACKHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $11,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRIS Healthy Aging — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFortitude Community Outreach — $10,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIllinois Executive Mansion Association — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAUK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AUTISM EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALLARD FAMILY NATURE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetWILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlmost Home — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS BELVIDERE LIONS CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWesley House Association — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetC-U AT HOME — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FAMILY LIFE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC — $8,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCORNERSTONE SERVICES INC — $7,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetI Am My Sister Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS — $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIFE DECISIONS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKankakee Riverfront Society Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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 MIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP
  • Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
  • Who funds WILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC
  • Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION
  • Who funds ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC
  • Who funds SwedishAmerican Health Foundation
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET
  • Who funds SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER
  • Who funds DELMAR DIVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING
  • Who funds THE SIMPLE ROOM
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY
  • Who funds ROCKFORD PROMISE
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS
  • Who funds FAMILY PEACE CENTER

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.

Community Foundation of Northern ILIL33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Northern Illinois Food Bank · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Virginia C Koboldt Charitable Trust · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · John T Wolf Charitable Trust II · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Rydell 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 Midland States Bank 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 · 00%2%6%14%25%your 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
    34report 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 158 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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