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Myra Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$761k
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MRecreation & Sports$560kEducation$543kHealth$537kHuman Services$382kFood & Nutrition$224kYouth Development$203kHousing & Shelter$198kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k60 grants · $281k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $376k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION$54,000
GRAND FORKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC$50,000
EMPIRE ARTS CENTER$30,000
UNITED WAY OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS & AREA$30,000
GRAND FORKS SENIOR CENTER$25,000
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTERHUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS$25,000
ST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE$25,000
NORTHLANDS RESCUE MISSION INC$20,400
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH DAKOTA$20,000
GRAND FORKS COUNTY WATER RESOURCE DISTRICT$20,000
VALLEY SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION$17,500
GRAND FORKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$17,280
GRAND FORKS PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,000
NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART$14,000
THE GRAND FORKS SALVATION ARMY$12,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MINI MONARCHS CHILD CARE: $10k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $10k → 12%MINI MONARCHS CHILD CARE: $4k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $10k → 12%HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $8k → 12%HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $12k → 12%YOUTH WORKS: $10k → 13%PRAIRIE HARVEST MENTAL HEALTH: $8k → 13%PRAIRIE HARVEST MENTAL HEALTH: $8k → 13%YOUTH WORKS: $8k → 13%RED RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION: $8k → 13%YOUTH WORKS: $8k → 13%PRAIRIE HARVEST MENTAL HEALTH: $6k → 13%PRAIRIE HARVEST MENTAL HEALTH: $5k → 13%YOUTH WORKS: $5k → 13%YOUTH WORKS: $5k → 13%RED RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION: $2k → 13%ALTRU FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 13%ALTRU FAMILY YMCA: $944 → 13%ST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE: $25k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE: $20k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE: $20k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE: $20k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE: $20k → 13%GREATER GRAND FORKS SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE: $15k → 13%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $14k → 13%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $9k → 13%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $8k → 13%YOUTH WORKS: $8k → 13%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $6k → 13%YOUTH WORKS: $5k → 13%YOUTH WORKS: $5k → 13%GLOBAL FRIENDS COALITION: $5k → 13%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $5k → 13%GLOBAL FRIENDS COALITION: $4k → 13%LIONS FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTA: $4k → 13%GLOBAL FRIENDS COALITION: $4k → 13%GLOBAL FRIENDS COALITION: $2k → 13%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $2k → 13%GLOBAL FRIENDS COALITION: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 87 repeat orgs$638k to everyone else

87 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
57

Total granted

$3.8M
$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+22%

Still filing today

51%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EA
    EMPIRE ARTS CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $161k · revenue +23%
  • VS
    VALLEY SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +50%
  • MH
    MYALLY HEALTH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • EV
    EMERADO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $55k
  • VM
    VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION & FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $36k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corporation

Promote economic growth in grand forks, north dakota and the surrounding communities through the attraction of new industries and expansion of current businesses.

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2
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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3
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
4
North Dakota Federation of Families for Childrens Mental Health

Children's mental health

Health
5
North Dakota News Cooperative
Arts & Culture
6
Greater North Dakota Chamber of Commerce

The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.

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7
Grand Forks Community Land Trust

The organization's mission is to provide permanently affordable housing opportunities to the grand forks, nd community.

Housing & Shelter
8
Grand Forks Homes Inc

To provide low income housing to eligible persons in grand forks, nd.

Housing & Shelter
9
North Dakota Long Term Care Association

We are a professional association of long term care and community service providers who enhance the lives of people we serve through collaboration, education and advocacy.

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10
Valley Senior Living

Valley Senior Living provides compassionate care and service from a Christian perspective to enhance the quality of life for those we serve.

Education
11
Greater Gf Soccer Club

Promote amateur youth soccer in the grand forks area.

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12
Greater Grand Forks Youth Football Association

To provide support services for Youth Football Activities in the Great Grand Forks region

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Forks Foundation for Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Journey Home Animal Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 161 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
36/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAND FORKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $285,000 · OtherGRAND FORKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCUNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $270,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA FOUNDATIONGRAND FORKS SENIOR CENTER: $130,000 · Other+121 more: $2,166,871 · Other+121 moreEMPIRE ARTS CENTER: $160,600 · Arts & CultureEMPIRE ARTS C…GF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $101,458 · Arts & CultureGF COUNTY HIS…NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART: $58,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH DAKOTA …ARTWISE: $44,000 · Arts & CultureARTWISEGREATER GRAND FORKS COMMUNITY THEATRE: $43,641 · Arts & CultureGREATER GRAND…MUDDY WATERS CLAY CENTER INC: $40,485 · Arts & CultureMUDDY WATERS …Northern Valley Youth Orchestras: $32,900 · Arts & CultureNorthern Vall…Public Arts Commission: $22,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $19,070 · Arts & CultureVALLEY SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION: $125,178 · HealthVALLEY SE…MYALLY HEALTH: $102,500 · HealthMYALLY HE…NORTHWOOD DEACONESS HEALTH CENTER: $65,738 · HealthNORTHWOOD…THIRD STREET CLINIC: $47,840 · HealthTHIRD STR…SPECTRA HEALTH: $20,000 · HealthSPECTRA H…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE AND THRIFT STORE: $120,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS: $52,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $42,820 · Human ServicesHospice of the Red River Valley: $39,860 · Human ServicesPRAIRIE HARVEST MENTAL HEALTH: $26,500 · Human ServicesGREATER GRAND FORKS SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL FRIENDS COALITION: $16,698 · Human ServicesMINI MONARCHS CHILD CARE FACILITY LLC: $13,109 · Human Services+3 more: $21,685 · Human ServicesGRAND FORKS CURLING CLUB INC: $57,850 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH DAKOTA INC: $54,000 · Recreation & SportsGRAND FORKS PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTHWOOD HOCKEY BOOSTERS: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsHUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER: $111,500 · AnimalsJourney Home Animal Rescue: $14,660 · AnimalsEMERADO RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $33,965 · Public Safety & DisasterLARIMORE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $33,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,851,871Arts & Culture$523,154Health$366,256Human Services$353,172Recreation & Sports$168,850Animals$126,160Public Safety & Disaster$67,465

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRAND FORKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $285,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetEMPIRE ARTS CENTER: $160,600 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetVALLEY SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION: $125,178 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE AND THRIFT STORE: $120,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER: $111,500 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetMYALLY HEALTH: $102,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetGF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $101,458 over 6y, 14% of budgetNORTHLANDS RESCUE MISSION INC: $91,739 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND THE AREA INC: $67,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNORTHWOOD DEACONESS HEALTH CENTER: $65,738 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA CLAUS GIRLS: $61,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART: $58,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGRAND FORKS CURLING CLUB INC: $57,850 over 2y, 21% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH DAKOTA INC: $54,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS: $52,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRed River Valley Athletics Inc: $49,209 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHIRD STREET CLINIC: $47,840 over 4y, 23% of budgetGRAND FORKS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $45,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetARTWISE: $44,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetGREATER GRAND FORKS COMMUNITY THEATRE: $43,641 over 6y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $42,820 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMUDDY WATERS CLAY CENTER INC: $40,485 over 5y, 16% of budgetGRAND FORKS PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetBIO Girls Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHospice of the Red River Valley: $39,860 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVillage Family Service Center: $38,365 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER GRAND FORKS COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS ADVISORY: $34,004 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetLARIMORE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $33,500 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetNorthern Valley Youth Orchestras: $32,900 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetUNITED DAY NURSERY INC: $32,577 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPRAIRIE HARVEST MENTAL HEALTH: $26,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetARC UPPER VALLEY INC: $24,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPublic Arts Commission: $22,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetGREATER GRAND FORKS SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSPECTRA HEALTH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL FRIENDS COALITION: $16,698 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetNORTHWOOD HOCKEY BOOSTERS: $15,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetJourney Home Animal Rescue: $14,660 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMINI MONARCHS CHILD CARE FACILITY LLC: $13,109 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetSt Annes Guest Home: $10,700 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEVELOPMENT HOMES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION: $9,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUSPIREND: $9,279 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRED RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GRAND FORKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds EMPIRE ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE AND THRIFT STORE ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds MYALLY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds GF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLANDS RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND THE AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWOOD DEACONESS HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SANTA CLAUS GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds GRAND FORKS CURLING CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH DAKOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS ↗
  • Who funds Red River Valley Athletics Inc ↗
  • Who funds THIRD STREET CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND FORKS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTWISE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER GRAND FORKS COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MUDDY WATERS CLAY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND FORKS PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIO Girls Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of the Red River Valley ↗
  • Who funds Village Family Service Center ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Midcontinent Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustNorth Dakota Communit…The Hal and Kathleen …United Way of Grand F…Botsford Family Found…Xcel Energy FoundationDakota Medical Founda…Impact FoundationEngelstad Family Foun…
Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and RegionND68.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Region · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · North Dakota Community Foundation · The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation · United Way of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and the Area Inc · Botsford Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Impact Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Myra Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Myra Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Myra Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Myra 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 161 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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