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New Jersey Council For The Humanities

At njch we explore, cultivate, and champion the public humanities in order to strengthen new jersey's diverse community.

$448k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.4MEducation$661kCommunity Improvement$163kCivil Rights$153kYouth Development$111kHuman Services$106kEnvironment$99kHealth$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $413,337 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $447,587 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,250 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $385k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rutgers University Foundation$32,445
AAPI Montclair Inc$15,000
Truehart Productions$15,000
WHITESBOG PRESERVATION TRUST$15,000
People and StoriesGente y Cuentos$15,000
Mighty Writers$15,000
Morris County Historical Society$15,000
Vietnamese Boat People$15,000
Hispanic Family Center of Southern New Jersey Inc$15,000
The Roebling Main Gate Museum$15,000
Ironbound Community Corporation$15,000
Preserve Shady Rest Committee$15,000
Historic Paulus Hook Association$15,000
Paper Mill Playhouse$15,000
Elizabeth Youth Theater Ensemble$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 (FY17–24, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $23k → 5%Hispanic Family Center of Southern New Jersey Inc: $15k → 12%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $15k → 5%NJ YMCA STATE ALLIANCE: $20k → 11%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $13k → 5%NJ YMCA STATE ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%RARITAN VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $13k → 8%WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR INC: $20k → 8%CLASSIS NEW BRUNSWICK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15k → 8%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 65 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 +41% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
85

Total granted

$2.8M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+18%

Still filing today

85%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TW
    The Whitesbog Preservation Trust Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +56%
  • HISTORIC MORVEN INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $81k · revenue +64%
  • TP
    Truehart Productions
    4× · 2021–2024 · $79k · revenue +5% · 82% of their budget

Funded once

  • SU
    STOCKTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • NEW CITY KIDS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -23%
  • MACCULLOCH HALL HISTORICAL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -25%

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
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
2
New Jersey Museum of Boating

Preserve and display New Jersey's rich boating history.

Arts & Culture
3
South Jersey Cultural Alliance

The South Jersey Cultural Alliance fosters an inclusive community of art, history, cultural organizations, artists and tradition bearers in the eight southern counties of New Jersey.

Arts & Culture
4
Camden County Historical Society

Founded in 1899, the camden county historical society (cchs) is a public, non-profit organization dedicated to the collection, preservation, study, interpretation, and cultural enrichment of life in camden county and southern new jersey.

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5
Toms River Seaport Society

Public museum

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6
New Jersey Council for the Humanities

At njch we explore, cultivate, and champion the public humanities in order to strengthen new jersey's diverse community.

Arts & Culture
7
Old Barracks Association of Trenton New

Preserve the educational use of the old barracks for future generations and continue its historical collections.

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8
Atlantic County Historical Society

Organization promotes historical information for Atlantic County, New Jersey through a museum and library. The organization also owns a historical house which it provides tours.

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9
Guttenberg Arts a Nj Nonprofit Corp
Arts & Culture
10
Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society

To preserve the diverse history of cape may county for the education, enlightment and pleasure of present and future generations.

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11
Newcomb Historical Museum

The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.

Arts & Culture
12
Jersey County Historical Society

To collect and preserve data and historical items relating to the history of jersey county. to encourage historical and genealogical research. to publish material of historical nature.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montclair Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Vietnamese Boat People a Nj Nonprofit Co. 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 backsteadyPerforming Arts Venues & Co…Fraternal Service Organizat…Local History & Nature Muse…Family Philanthropic Founda…Developmental Disabilities …Affordable Housing Developm…Higher Education Support Fo…
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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr12%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr12%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/165
the rest of the field
13%
4,860/38,800

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

124 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 124 of the 165 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)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/124
Grantees still filing
83/124
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEOPLE AND STORIES GENTE Y CUENTOS — $118,337 · Arts & CulturePEOPLE AND STORIES GENTE Y CUENTOSThe Whitesbog Preservation Trust Inc — $107,510 · Arts & CultureThe Whitesbog Preservation Trust IncHISTORIC MORVEN INC — $80,500 · Arts & CultureTruehart Productions — $79,419 · Arts & CultureRoebling Main Gate Museum dba Roebling Museum — $74,500 · Arts & CulturePERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $61,740 · Arts & CultureTALKING EYES MEDIA INC — $61,000 · Arts & Culture+54 more — $1,114,051 · Arts & Culture+54 moreRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY — $98,827 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYVIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE A NJ NONPROFIT CO — $60,000 · OtherMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY — $58,361 · Other+76 more — $1,505,272 · Other+76 moreMIGHTY WRITERS — $55,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $51,645 · EducationRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $31,920 · EducationMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $29,924 · EducationCOUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS FOUNDATION — $20,165 · EducationROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationTHOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $19,974 · EducationLUNA STAGE COMPANY INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,400 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY — $51,088 · Human ServicesNEW JERSEY YMCA STATE ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesWho is My Neighbor Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesClassis of New Brunswick Community DevelopmentCorp — $15,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC FAMILY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesRARITAN VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION — $13,410 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC — $44,600 · Community ImprovementHAMILTON PARTNERSHIP FOR PATERSON INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC — $33,000 · Community ImprovementAlice Paul Institute Inc — $52,387 · Civil RightsCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC — $30,000 · Civil RightsBAYARD RUSTIN CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — $25,000 · Civil RightsJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $30,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $19,625 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF OCEAN COUNTY — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,697,057Other$1,722,460Education$254,028Human Services$149,498Community Improvement$112,600Civil Rights$107,387Philanthropy$59,625

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 budgetPEOPLE AND STORIES GENTE Y CUENTOS — $118,337 over 7y, 14% of budgetThe Whitesbog Preservation Trust Inc — $107,510 over 5y, 13% of budgetHISTORIC MORVEN INC — $80,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTruehart Productions — $79,419 over 4y, 82% of budgetRoebling Main Gate Museum dba Roebling Museum — $74,500 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetPERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $61,740 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTALKING EYES MEDIA INC — $61,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetVIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE A NJ NONPROFIT CO — $60,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetNJ VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $57,100 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $55,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAlice Paul Institute Inc — $52,387 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $51,645 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY — $51,088 over 3y, 12% of budgetHOBOKEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC — $50,600 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOLAB ARTS INC — $50,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetVISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY — $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMonmouth County Historical Association — $49,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOGI INC — $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC — $44,600 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetBLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC — $44,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC — $44,050 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC — $42,901 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUKRAINIAN HISTORY AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $39,780 over 3y, 19% of budgetTRENT HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $38,240 over 3y, 31% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY — $35,940 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRAICES CULTURAL CENTER A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $35,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWheaton Arts & Cultural Center Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEW JERSEY YMCA STATE ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHAMILTON PARTNERSHIP FOR PATERSON INC — $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN JERSEY FAMILY MEDICAL CENTERS INC — $34,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISLES INC — $34,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Petey Greene Program Inc — $33,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALLAIRE VILLAGE INC — $33,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PRINCETON — $33,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC — $33,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $31,920 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC — $30,120 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetELIZABETH YOUTH THEATER ENSEMBLE — $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMACCULLOCH HALL HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAIDS Resource Foundation for Children — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $29,924 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM — $29,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

Princeton Area Commun…Geraldine R Dodge Fou…Community Foundation …Oceanfirst FoundationPseg Foundation IncThe Hyde and Watson F…Investors Foundation …Bristol-Myers Squibb …Citizens Philanthropi…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Robert Wood Johns…The Provident Bank Fo…
Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ94.9× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Oceanfirst Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Provident Bank 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 New Jersey Council For The Humanities 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
  • Returning Citizens Support Group — 100% of income from government
  • Montclair Historical Society — 67% of income from government
  • Legal Services of New Jersey Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Nasw Foundation — 51% of income from government
  • Alice Paul Institute Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Trenton Health Team Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
  • The Whitesbog Preservation Trust Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Perkins Center for the Arts — 24% of income from government
  • Bayshore Center at Bivalve Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Nimbus Dance Works Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Roebling Main Gate Museum dba Roebling Museum — 21% of income from government
  • Aapi Montclair Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Southern Jersey Family Medical Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Hoboken Historical Museum Inc — 18% of income from government
  • The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
  • Save Ellis Island Inc — 10% of income from government
  • New Jersey Orators Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
  • Hamilton Partnership for Paterson Inc — 8% of income from government
  • People and Stories Gente Y Cuentos — 7% of income from government
  • The Morris Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Allaire Village Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Clinton Hill Community Action Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Colab Arts Inc — 6% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Ramapo College Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • New Jersey Ymca State Alliance Inc — 1% of income from government
  • American Littoral Society — 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
  • Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
31get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 165 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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