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Miranda Lux Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$525k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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 FY20172025.

Education$993kYouth Development$890kArts & Culture$779kEnvironment$422kEmployment$340kRecreation & Sports$148kCommunity Improvement$145kFood & Nutrition$135kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY SURF PROJECT$30,000
SPROUTS CHEF TRAINING$25,000
Pie Ranch$25,000
OLINGA$20,000
Santa Rosa Junior College Foundatio$20,000
ICA CRISTO REY ACADEMY$20,000
Huckleberry Youth Programs$20,000
NORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE$20,000
Sunset Youth Services$20,000
Spaulding Marine Center$20,000
LandPaths$20,000
Conservation Corps of North Bay$20,000
Santa Rosa Junior College Foundatio$20,000
MAGNOLIA PROJECT$20,000
SFJAZZ$15,000
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 (FY17–25, $283k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ON THE MOVE: $15k → 9%OLINGA LEARNING: $20k → 19%ON THE MOVE: $15k → 9%OLINGA LEARNING: $15k → 19%ON THE MOVE: $13k → 9%OLINGA LEARNING: $15k → 19%ANNIE CANNONS: $10k → 10%OLINGA LEARNING: $15k → 19%SPECIAL SERVICES FOR GROUPS: $10k → 10%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $20k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $15k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $15k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $10k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $10k → 8%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $25k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $15k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $15k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $10k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $10k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $10k → 10%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 73 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

73 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
78

Total granted

$3.2M
$906k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+14%

Still filing today

77%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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

  • GG
    GIRLS GARAGE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +215%
  • SC
    Sprouts Chef Training
    6× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +153%
  • SR
    SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $95k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • GA
    Galileo Academy of Science Technolo
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • Environmental Traveling Companions
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -7%
  • CR
    COMMON ROOTS FARM
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -10%

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
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
2
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
3
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

4
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
5
Youth in Arts

Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…

Arts & Culture
6
Hack the Hood Inc

Hack the Hood provides youth and communities of color with tech skill-building programs and career navigation support that are grounded in justice and ensure economic mobility.

Arts & Culture
7
Oakland Digital Arts and Literacy Center Inc

BRIDGEGOOD increases opportunity and digital literacy for under-resourced students with a focus on Black Indigenous and Women People of Color. We prepare first-generation college students for careers in UX UI and Visual Design while…

Education
8
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
9
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
10
Root Division

Root Divisions mission is to empower artists, foster community service, inspire youth, and enrich the Bay Area through engagement in the visual arts.

Arts & Culture
11
The California Center for Civic Participation

To educate california youth about the operations of local, state, and federal government.

Public Benefit
12
San Francisco Conservation Corps

The San Francisco Conservation Corps offers young people opportunities to develop themselves by developing their academic abilities and marketable job skills while addressing community needs through service work

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Techbridge Girls and the most unlike its peers is Cinnamongirl Inc. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr19%38%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr12%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/113
the rest of the field
12%
2,563/21,576

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

110 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. 110 of the 163 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/110
Grantees still filing
75/110
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MISSION GRADUATES — $80,000 · OtherIMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY — $75,000 · OtherBIG SKILLS TINY HOMES — $70,000 · OtherSunset Youth Services — $65,000 · OtherCity Surf Project — $85,000 · OtherGIRLS GARAGE — $100,000 · OtherGIRLS GARAGE+77 more — $1,298,600 · Other+77 moreSprouts Chef Training — $98,900 · EducationSprouts Chef Trainin…GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $70,000 · EducationGATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOO…SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $65,000 · EducationSANTA ROSA JUNIOR CO…Life Learning Academy — $60,000 · EducationLife Learning Academ…CREDO HIGH SCHOOL — $55,000 · EducationCREDO HIGH SCHOOLMAGNOLIA GLOBAL ACADEMY FOR LEADERS — $45,000 · EducationMAGNOLIA GLOBAL ACAD…OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $45,000 · EducationOAKLAND SCHOOL FOR T…YouthBeat — $40,000 · Education826 Valencia — $40,000 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $35,000 · EducationMARIN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Education+13 more — $177,500 · Education+13 moreSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $95,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA ROSA SYMP…THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM — $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORAR…CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA FILM…WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS — $57,500 · Arts & CultureWATERSIDE WORKS…KORSA MUSICAL THEATER — $55,000 · Arts & CultureKORSA MUSICAL T…BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $45,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY REPERT…New Conservatory Theatre Center — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNew Conservator…START SOCO — $35,000 · Arts & CultureSTART SOCOBrava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $126,000 · Arts & Culture+9 moreYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentYES Nature…YOUTH SPIRIT ARTWORKS — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH SPIR…THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CALIFO…ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentENTERPRISE…DUSTYS' FISHING WELL — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentDUSTYS' FI…DEV MISSION — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentDEV MISSIO…Project Wreckless — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentProject Wr…ACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentOld Skool Cafe — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentLiteracy for Environmental Justice — $20,000 · Youth Development+5 more — $52,500 · Youth Development+5 moreGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $85,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesOLINGA LEARNING — $65,000 · Human ServicesON THE MOVE — $42,500 · Human ServicesAIM HIGH — $15,000 · Human ServicesSpecial Service for Groups Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesAnnieCannons Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesFriends of SCRAP Inc — $45,000 · EnvironmentLandPaths — $40,000 · EnvironmentSTRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS — $30,000 · EnvironmentPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Traveling Companions — $25,000 · EnvironmentPlanting Justice — $15,000 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $12,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST — $10,000 · EnvironmentCenter for Land-Based Learning — $10,000 · EnvironmentCanopy — $10,000 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGE — $10,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC — $65,000 · EmploymentTHE BREAD PROJECT — $60,000 · EmploymentPIE RANCH — $35,000 · EmploymentWomens Audio Mission — $25,000 · EmploymentCOMMON ROOTS FARM — $25,000 · Employment
Other$1,773,600Education$761,400Arts & Culture$603,500Youth Development$402,500Human Services$297,500Environment$237,500Employment$210,000

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 budgetGIRLS GARAGE — $100,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSprouts Chef Training — $98,900 over 6y, 14% of budgetSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $95,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $85,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCity Surf Project — $85,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetMISSION GRADUATES — $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $75,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetGATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBIG SKILLS TINY HOMES — $70,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetCONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOLINGA LEARNING — $65,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLife Learning Academy — $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM — $60,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BREAD PROJECT — $60,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS — $57,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetKORSA MUSICAL THEATER — $55,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetCREDO HIGH SCHOOL — $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMAGNOLIA GLOBAL ACADEMY FOR LEADERS — $45,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetOAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of SCRAP Inc — $45,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE INC — $42,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetON THE MOVE — $42,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH SPIRIT ARTWORKS — $40,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH — $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNew Conservatory Theatre Center — $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLandPaths — $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budget826 Valencia — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDUSTYS' FISHING WELL — $35,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSTART SOCO — $35,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetLime Foundation — $35,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetPIE RANCH — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEV MISSION — $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBrava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center — $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetProject Wreckless — $30,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetWomens Audio Mission — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEnvironmental Traveling Companions — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY TEEN SERVICES — $25,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetHATCH COMMUNITY — $25,000 over 2y, 31% 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 GIRLS GARAGE
  • Who funds Sprouts Chef Training
  • Who funds SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY
  • Who funds City Surf Project
  • Who funds MISSION GRADUATES
  • Who funds YES Nature to Neighborhoods
  • Who funds GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
  • Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC
  • Who funds BIG SKILLS TINY HOMES
  • Who funds CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC
  • Who funds OLINGA LEARNING
  • Who funds SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Life Learning Academy
  • Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM
  • Who funds THE BREAD PROJECT
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE
  • Who funds WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS
  • Who funds KORSA MUSICAL THEATER
  • Who funds CREDO HIGH SCHOOL
  • Who funds MAGNOLIA GLOBAL ACADEMY FOR LEADERS
  • Who funds OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds Friends of SCRAP Inc
  • Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE
  • Who funds NORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE INC
  • Who funds ON THE MOVE
  • Who funds YouthBeat
  • Who funds YOUTH SPIRIT ARTWORKS
  • Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH
  • Who funds New Conservatory Theatre Center
  • Who funds LandPaths
  • Who funds 826 Valencia

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.

Bothin FoundationCA64.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bothin Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · The Dean Witter Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Mary a Crocker Trust

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 Miranda Lux 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
    48report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Miranda Lux Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Miranda Lux 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 163 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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