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Montgomery County Foundation Inc

To develop, receive, administer and manage, under community control, funds received from public and private sources and distribute them for charitable purposes, primarily to meet local needs.

$357k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
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.

Human Services$1.2MHousing & Shelter$379kHealth$357kEducation$316kFood & Nutrition$239kYouth Development$131kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kCrime & Legal$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $159,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $356,698 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $197,198 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.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCESS SERVICES$44,500
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE$15,000
ROXY THERAPY DOGS INC$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$10,000
NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC$10,000
PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT CORPORATION$10,000
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES$10,000
LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
MANNA ON MAIN STREET$10,000
BUCKS-MONT COLLABORATIVE$10,000
FAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY$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 (FY17–25, $641k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 8%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION & NARBERTH: $15k → 10%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $61k → 11%CLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE: $6k → 11%COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC: $5k → 11%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $5k → 10%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $15k → 11%PHOENIXVILLE SPRING VALLEY YMCA: $16k → 6%THE CRADLE OF HOPE: $5k → 7%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $15k → 11%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $10k → 6%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $12k → 11%MOMS HOUSE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 6%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $9k → 11%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 6%KENCREST SERVICES: $7k → 7%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 6%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $10k → 7%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $10k → 7%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $5k → 7%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $5k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $5k → 7%THE VILLAGE OF ARTS & HUMANITIES: $13k → 22%TRICOUNTY ACTIVE ADULT CENTER: $10k → 7%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $5k → 7%POTTSTOWN YWCA-DAWN PROJECT: $5k → 7%MITZVAH CIRCLE: $10k → 7%MITZVAH CIRCLE: $5k → 7%UPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $15k → 7%SENIOR ADULT ACTIVITY CENTER OF INDIAN VALLEY: $10k → 7%PAWS AND AFFECTION: $11k → 7%PAWS AND AFFECTION: $10k → 7%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION: $60k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $55k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $30k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $20k → 7%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $12k → 7%CECIL & GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $10k → 7%CECIL & GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $10k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $5k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $5k → 7%CECIL & GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $5k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $15k → 7%CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK: $5k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $15k → 7%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $10k → 7%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $10k → 7%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $10k → 7%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 45 repeat orgs$498k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
57

Total granted

$2.6M
$478k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+34%

Still filing today

89%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • AS
    ACCESS SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $279k · revenue +54%
  • PC
    Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communiti
    6× · 2017–2023 · $232k · revenue +85%
  • KO
    KEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • AU
    ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue +21%
  • FS
    FOCUS STRATEGIES
    one grant, 2021 · $22k
  • TO
    THE OPEN LINK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +0%

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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
Milestone Centers Inc

Milestone provides quality, life-enhancing services that promote wellness and the development of human potential to people with behavioral health and intellectual challenges. each year milestone serves approximately 3,500 residents of…

Health
3
Mercy Life Center Corporation

We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…

Health
4
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
5
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…

Human Services
6
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
7
Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

8
Penn State Health

Penn state health's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people of pennsylvania, and beyond. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and equitable care; educates and trains (continued…

Health
9
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…

Health
10
Pennsylvania Community Real Estate Corp

None

Housing & Shelter
11
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
12
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carson Valley Children's Aid and the most unlike its peers is Colonial Neighborhood Council. 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 backsteadyIndustry Trade AssociationsPet Rescue and AdoptionJewish Community Organizati…Neighborhood Development Or…Charter SchoolsArts & Cultural Organizatio…Faith-Based International D…Affordable Senior HousingVolunteer Fire CompaniesUniversity-Affiliated Organ…Community Support Services
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 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr12%45%35–55yr15%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr18%7%20–35yr12%57%35–55yr15%28%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%4/105
the rest of the field
14%
2,458/18,145

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

94 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. 94 of the 105 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)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/94
Grantees still filing
77/94
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACCESS SERVICES INC — $279,398 · OtherACCESS SERVICES INCPottstown Cluster of Religious Communiti — $231,599 · OtherPottstown Cluster of Religious CommunitiCatholic Social Services — $75,000 · OtherVARIETY CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA — $73,288 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $70,700 · OtherMANNA ON MAIN STREET — $62,628 · OtherTHE PATHWAY SCHOOL — $58,088 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA — $55,000 · OtherLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $67,000 · Other+35 more — $575,228 · Other+35 moreVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC — $123,600 · Human ServicesVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMI…ACLAMO — $115,000 · Human ServicesACLAMOMontgomery County Community Action Development Commission — $65,000 · Human ServicesMontgomery County Commun…CECIL AND GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesGemma Services — $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA — $30,000 · Human ServicesMATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesLAUREL HOUSE — $28,800 · Human Services+21 more — $217,057 · Human Services+21 moreCarson Valley Children's Aid — $202,687 · HealthCarson Valley…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $72,648 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'…HEDWIG HOUSE — $35,221 · HealthHEDWIG HOUSE+12 more — $70,600 · Health+12 moreKEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC — $197,301 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterARCADIA UNIVERSITY — $32,562 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR POTTSTOWN EDUCATION — $30,605 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationPhoenixville Public Library — $19,300 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $15,000 · EducationBucknell University — $15,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationROXY READING INC — $10,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $5,500 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationDAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $56,334 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance — $10,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $5,000 · Food & NutritionMontgomery County Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc — $70,000 · Employment
Other$1,547,929Human Services$669,457Health$381,156Housing & Shelter$207,301Education$162,967Food & Nutrition$71,334Employment$70,000

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 budgetACCESS SERVICES INC — $279,398 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPottstown Cluster of Religious Communiti — $231,599 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetCarson Valley Children's Aid — $202,687 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC — $197,301 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC — $123,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetACLAMO — $115,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCatholic Social Services — $75,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVARIETY CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA — $73,288 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $72,648 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery County Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc — $70,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $67,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMontgomery County Community Action Development Commission — $65,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMANNA ON MAIN STREET — $62,628 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PATHWAY SCHOOL — $58,088 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $56,334 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA — $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEVS HUMAN SERVICES — $38,939 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPETER BECKER COMMUNITY — $38,872 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEDWIG HOUSE — $35,221 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY — $32,562 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRICOUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK INC — $31,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPATRICIAN SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NORRISTOWN — $30,950 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR POTTSTOWN EDUCATION — $30,605 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCECIL AND GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC — $30,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetGemma Services — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLONIAL NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL — $30,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE — $28,800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Friends of Valley Forge Valley Forge Park Alliance — $25,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetPAWS AND AFFECTION INC — $20,548 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE OPEN LINK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBUCKS-MONT COLLABORATIVE — $20,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetPHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPhoenixville Public Library — $19,300 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association — $16,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $12,236 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR ADULT ACTIVITY CENTER OF INDIAN VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% 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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA87.3× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Healthspark Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation · Vna Foundation of Greater North Penn · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Quest for the Best · Mitzvah Circle Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable

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 Montgomery County 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc2% of income from government
  • Community Options Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Montgomery County Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Montgomery County 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 105 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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