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Patterson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
135
Grants FY2025still arriving
33
States reached
$656k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.9MHealth$3.4MHuman Services$997kAnimals$565kPublic Benefit$307kFood & Nutrition$146kCommunity Improvement$62kPhilanthropy$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 135 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k88 grants · $161k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $722k
  • $250k+1 grant · $656k
$3,000
Median grant
33
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$655,745
GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA$35,000
FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS$35,000
MISSION OUTPOST$26,000
CAN DO CANINES$25,000
FOOTBRIDGE INC$25,000
DUO DOGS INC$25,000
HELPING PAWS INC$24,000
UNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION$20,000
KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY$20,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF COSMETIC DENTISTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$20,000
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC$20,000
ASSISTANCE CANINE TRAINING SERVICES$20,000
AMERICA'S VETDOGS$20,000
AMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE DOG SERVICES INC: $50k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIN: $20k → 8%PALMETTO ANIMAL ASSISTED LIFE SERVICES: $15k → 16%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $35k → 10%NEW HORIZONS SERVICE DOGS INC: $16k → 12%LOVE IN ACTION OF THE TRI-CITIES: $10k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 8%OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $65k → 8%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES: $13k → 10%CIRCLE TAIL INC: $11k → 6%ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL: $34k → 18%SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS: $25k → 11%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $35k → 15%ASSISTANCE CANINE TRAINING SERVICES: $20k → 9%NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE DOG SERVICES INC: $35k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 8%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES DBA GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $20k → 14%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $15k → 10%LOVE IN ACTION OF THE TRI-CITIES: $10k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $35k → 8%ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL: $21k → 18%SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS: $25k → 11%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES INC DBA GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $14k → 14%LOVE IN ACTION OF THE TRI-CITIES: $10k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $35k → 8%ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 18%NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE DOG SERVICES INC: $35k → 11%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES INC: $10k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $31k → 8%ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 18%NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE DOG SERVICES INC: $12k → 11%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $32k → 6%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $24k → 8%SOUTH BAY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER: $20k → 14%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $10k → 10%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $20k → 8%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $32k → 6%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $10k → 10%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $20k → 8%SOUTH BAY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER: $11k → 14%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $10k → 10%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $12k → 8%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $30k → 6%SOUTH BAY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 14%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $10k → 6%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $100k → 14%HELPING PAWS INC: $24k → 11%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

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HI
OK
LA
AL
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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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 149 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

149 repeat relationships: 75 still active in FY2025, 74 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

149
293

Total granted

$11M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+19%

Still filing today

77%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k 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
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • AV
    AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $327k · revenue +90%
  • FS
    FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $244k · revenue +5%
  • CD
    CAN DO CANINES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $221k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +32%
  • DL
    DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK (FORMERLY NFDH)
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +12%
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
Montgomery County Free Clinic Inc

Montgomery county free clinic, inc. offers high-quality medical and dental care and health promotion and disease prevention services to residents of montgomery county who lack insurance and would otherwise go without basic health care. to…

Health
2
Rawlins County Dental Clinic Fund dba Northwest Smile Center

Continue to operate a self-sustaining, state of the art dental clinic that serves all patients including those who are insured, under insured, uninsured or medicade participants for residents of northwest kansas and surrounding areas.

Health
3
San Antonio Christian Dental Clinic

Sa christian dental clinic's mission is to extend christ's healing by providing charitable dental care to underserved bexar county adults. the vision of the clinic is a commitment to creating a community in which dental care and optimal…

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4
North Carolina Dental Society Foundation Inc

Organization's mission is to identify underserved areas of the state where there are not enough dental practitioners to adequately address the oral health needs of the community, as well as areas with high unemployment or poverty. to…

Health
5
Indiana Health Centers Inc

Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.

Health
6
Dental Clinics North

To provide comprehensive public dental health care services to the communities of northern michigan and neighboring regions.

Health
7
Hope Medical Clinic Inc

Hope is a not-for-profit interdenominational christian medical, dental, and social service organization. hope's goal is to provide compassionate and practical help, ministering to the whole person with dignity and respect. this includes…

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8
Midland Ctr for Accessible Health Care

Helping Hands Dental Center is the community's primary nonprofit agency promoting oral health initiatives and providing dental services for Medicaid eligible adults.

Health
9
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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10
Health and Hope Clinic Inc

The mission of the health and hope clinic is to provide help and hope to the hurting. the clinic provides free and charitable medical and dental care to qualified individuals with limited income, no access to care, and no health insurance.

Health
11
Fountain Clinic

Operate a free\low cost dental and medical clinic to assist the uninsured and under-insured unable to afford medical care.

Health
12
Karis Community Health

Provide comprehensive dental services and primary medical care to uninusred adults who live at 150% or below the federal poverty level.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Dental Care; the most unlike its peers is Midwest Australian Shepherd Rescue Inc. 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

288 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 288 of the 492 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)
68
Early backer (in before they grew)
283/288
Grantees still filing
187/288
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $4,146,541 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOPERATION GRACE MN: $340,600 · OtherOPERATION GRACE MNCAN DO CANINES: $220,628 · Other+92 more: $1,615,449 · Other+92 moreDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $358,922 · HealthDENTAL LIFELINE NETWO…KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY: $136,800 · HealthKIDS IN NEED OF DENTI…AMERICA'S DENTISTS CARE FOUNDATION: $110,000 · HealthINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $104,118 · HealthAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $95,000 · HealthC A R E Clinic: $93,700 · HealthTRINITY FREE CLINIC INC: $86,250 · Health+51 more: $1,246,826 · Health+51 moreSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $1,308,582 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AM…AMERICAN ACADEMY OF COSMETIC DENTISTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $74,300 · Education+8 more: $81,600 · Education+8 moreFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $244,189 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERV…NEADS INC: $137,000 · Human ServicesNEADS INCCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $113,900 · Human ServicesCANINE PARTN…UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL…International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $84,284 · Human ServicesInternationa…ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,475 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE D…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS F…SOUTH BAY CHILDRENS HEALTH CENTER: $60,965 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS: $50,000 · Human Services+16 more: $303,160 · Human Services+16 moreAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $327,108 · Public Benefit+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $35,000 · AnimalsAUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE: $14,000 · AnimalsDogs For Diabetics - dba National Institute of Canine Service and Training: $7,500 · AnimalsMidwest Australian Shepherd Rescue Inc: $6,900 · AnimalsPURRFECT ANGELS CAT RESCUE: $5,700 · AnimalsMISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $5,200 · AnimalsEVERYONE FOR VETERANS: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $15,250 · PhilanthropyNORTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $14,900 · Philanthropy
Other$6,323,218Health$2,231,616Education$1,464,482Human Services$1,288,973Public Benefit$337,108Animals$74,300Philanthropy$60,150

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $1,308,582 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $358,922 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetOPERATION GRACE MN: $340,600 over 3y, 71% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $327,108 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $244,189 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $220,628 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $194,364 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetNEADS INC: $137,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY: $136,800 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $113,900 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICA'S DENTISTS CARE FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $104,118 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetC A R E Clinic: $93,700 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTRINITY FREE CLINIC INC: $86,250 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $84,284 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSMITH ISLAND UNITED INC: $77,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,475 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF COSMETIC DENTISTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $74,300 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONEJO FREE CLINIC: $69,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $64,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH BAY CHILDRENS HEALTH CENTER: $60,965 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHOLLAND FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $56,800 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetMOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $55,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC: $52,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAHAI HEALTH: $50,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCommunity Dental Clinic Inc: $46,639 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDUO DOGS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPANCARE OF FLORIDA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC: $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HEALTH CENTER INC: $42,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES: $41,730 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $41,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC: $38,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAHABA VALLEY HEALTH CARE INC: $32,040 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetDENTISTS ON WHEELS: $32,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY: $31,313 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION: $31,030 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSeattle Center Foundation: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

Oral Health Internati…Carequest Foundation …Delta Dental Communit…Americares Foundation…Highmark FoundationDirect ReliefDelta Dental FundMedica FoundationNational Association …CareQuest Institute f…StratacorDelta Dental of Minne…
Oral Health International FoundationVA43.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oral Health International Foundation · Carequest Foundation Inc · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · Americares Foundation Inc · Highmark Foundation · Direct Relief · Delta Dental Fund · Medica Foundation · National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc · Stratacor · Delta Dental of Minnesota

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Smith Island United Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Pancare of Florida Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
66report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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Find your warmest path to Patterson 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 492 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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