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Oberweiler Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$871k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.2MHuman Services$865kHealth$696kFood & Nutrition$287kHousing & Shelter$247kYouth Development$220kPhilanthropy$190kCrime & Legal$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $786k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEN CITY MARKET$40,000
COMER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$40,000
TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION$35,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$30,000
RUSTIC FALLS NATURE CAMP$25,000
BRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVE$25,000
DELTA INSTITUTE$25,000
VETERANS PATH TO HOPE (DBA TRANSITIONAL LIVING SERVICES)$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER$25,000
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION FUND$25,000
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE$25,000
YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS$25,000
BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE ILLINOIS NATURE PRESERVES$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $727k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%OPERATING WARM: $10k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $10k → 10%OPERATING WARM: $5k → 6%BRAVEHEARTS: $75k → 6%BRAVEHEARTS: $75k → 6%BRAVEHEARTS: $50k → 6%OUTREACH HOUSE: $10k → 7%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 8%BRAVEHEARTS: $35k → 6%BRAVEHEARTS: $25k → 6%OUTREACH HOUSE: $10k → 7%BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $25k → 6%BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $25k → 6%OUTREACH HOUSE: $5k → 7%BRAVEHEARTS: $5k → 6%TURNING POINT: $5k → 6%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 7%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $35k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $25k → 7%LOVE MOVES US: $10k → 14%AMERICA CARES TOO: $5k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $15k → 14%TUESDAY'S CHILD: $15k → 14%TUESDAY'S CHILD: $15k → 14%TUESDAY'S CHILD: $10k → 14%TUESDAY'S CHILD: $10k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $5k → 14%JOURNEYCARE: $5k → 14%THE WOMEN'S TREATMENT CENTER: $20k → 14%BRIGHTPOINT: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AID: $8k → 14%ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $7k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AID: $3k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 14%SALUTE INC: $20k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 14%SALUTE INC: $20k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 14%SALUTE INC: $15k → 14%PADS TO HOPE (DBA JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME): $5k → 14%SALUTE INC: $5k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
SD
IN
OH
PA
CA
VA
AZ
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Oberweiler Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 88%.

Oberweiler Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 61 repeat orgs$747k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
38

Total granted

$3.5M
$593k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+10%

Still filing today

90%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k 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 ServicesEnvironmentHealthEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BT
    BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $315k · revenue +45%
  • CG
    CHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $138k · revenue +74%
  • AS
    A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $127k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $175k
  • AO
    ANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $28k · revenue +114%
  • TW
    The Womens Treatment Center DBA TWTC Changed to Windy City Cares
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -96%
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.

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A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
3
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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4
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
5
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
6
Children's Advocates for Change

Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…

Human Services
7
Advocates for Illinois Children

Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.

Human Services
8
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
9
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.

Health
10
Chicago Family Health Center Inc

Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…

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11
Plant Chicago Nfp

Plant Chicago's mission is to cultivate local circular economies. We envision a paradigm shift in production, consumption, and waste driven at the local level, generating equity and economic opportunity for all residents.

Food & Nutrition
12
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill; the most unlike its peers is Philip J Rock Center and School Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

94 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. 94 of the 117 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/94
Grantees still filing
61/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $185,000 · OtherCOMER CHILDREN'S HOSPITALFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING DONOR ADVISED FUND: $175,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING DONOR ADVISED FUN…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $95,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $60,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $120,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVERTHE DELTA INSTITUTE: $70,000 · OtherCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $65,000 · Other+49 more: $914,125 · Other+49 moreCITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION INC: $120,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS FOR CONSERVA…BRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS: $110,000 · EnvironmentBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT R…ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $108,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND…ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION: $95,000 · EnvironmentILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTA…FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVES: $75,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE FOREST…YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS: $60,000 · EnvironmentYOUTH CONSERVATION CO…GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC: $52,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDSWELL CONSERVAN…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC …FRIENDS OF ILLINOIS NATURE PRESERVES: $40,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · Environment+6 more: $77,350 · Environment+6 moreBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $315,000 · Human ServicesBRAVEHEARTS THERAPE…Almost Home Kids: $60,000 · Human ServicesAlmost Home KidsSALUTE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesSALUTE INCTuesdays Child: $50,000 · Human ServicesTuesdays ChildCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $35,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE OUTREACH HOUSE: $25,000 · Human Services+12 more: $127,000 · Human Services+12 moreA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $127,000 · HealthA SAFE HAVEN…UCM NETWORK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthUCM NETWORK …Childrens Oncology Services Inc: $50,000 · HealthChildrens On…ECDYSIS FOUNDATION: $46,000 · HealthECDYSIS FOUN…GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $40,000 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB…Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S: $30,000 · HealthOak Park Riv…DANNY DID FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Health+4 more: $42,500 · Health+4 moreCHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM: $137,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $67,500 · Food & NutritionANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC: $28,000 · Food & NutritionMAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS: $24,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTravis Manion Foundation: $85,000 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO LIGHTS: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OSCAR MIKE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyIPM INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $85,006 · EducationCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc: $30,000 · EducationPHILIP J ROCK CENTER AND SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $18,500 · EducationCollege of Lake County Foundation: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $5,800 · Education
Other$1,684,125Environment$827,350Human Services$737,000Health$457,500Food & Nutrition$272,000Philanthropy$175,000Education$154,306

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $315,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM: $137,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $127,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION INC: $120,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $120,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS: $110,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $108,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUCM NETWORK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION: $95,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIPM INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $85,006 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $85,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO LIGHTS: $75,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVES: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE DELTA INSTITUTE: $70,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $67,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSALUTE INC: $60,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetYOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC: $52,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTuesdays Child: $50,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetECDYSIS FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCODE PLATOON NFP: $45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetKIDS RANK: $40,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF ILLINOIS NATURE PRESERVES: $40,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKids Above All Illinois: $39,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASA KANE COUNTY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC: $28,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE OUTREACH HOUSE: $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS: $24,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetDANNY DID FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Womens Treatment Center DBA TWTC Changed to Windy City Cares: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Dr Scholl FoundationIL49.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dr Scholl Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · AbbVie Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc

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 Oberweiler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oberweiler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    28report 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, 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.
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    How do I get to Oberweiler Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Oberweiler 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 117 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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