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Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$551k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$2.1MHealth$710kHuman Services$639kArts & Culture$452kYouth Development$330kHousing & Shelter$180kFood & Nutrition$140kReligion$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $514k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$30,000
HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTH$25,000
SEA TURTLE INC$25,000
GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES$25,000
CATCH THE NEXT INC$25,000
SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA$25,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE IN$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EDINGBURG RGV$25,000
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
GIRLS SCOUT OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS$25,000
BIG HEROES INC$25,000
FORM COMMUNITIES$25,000
SOUTH TEXAS LITERACY COALITION$25,000
GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER INC$25,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$25,000
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, $462k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HEROES ON THE WATER: $15k → 5%TEXAS CENTER FOR LOCAL FOOD: $5k → 12%CAMP ARANZAZU: $15k → 17%CAMP ARANZAZU: $12k → 17%IT'S TIME TEXAS: $25k → 10%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 16%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $15k → 17%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $15k → 17%CAPABLE KIDS FOUNDATION: $15k → 27%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUND: $10k → 17%SILVER RIBBON COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $15k → 27%WOMEN TOGETHER FOUNDATION: $15k → 27%CAPABLE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 27%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC: $20k → 23%LOAVES & FISHES OF RIO GRADE VALLEY: $20k → 23%ANGELS OF LOVE: $20k → 27%ANGELS OF LOVE: $15k → 27%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO: $20k → 23%VALLEY HAVEN INC: $20k → 23%SUNSHINE HAVEN INC: $15k → 23%SUNSHINE HAVEN: $10k → 23%DENTISTS WHO CARE INC: $15k → 27%AURORA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 27%AURORA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 27%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $20k → 23%CAPABLE KIDS FOUNDATION: $15k → 27%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $15k → 23%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
TX

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 65 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
117

Total granted

$3.4M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+16%

Still filing today

54%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther

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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $102k · revenue +95%
  • ST
    SOUTH TEXAS JUVENILE DIABETES ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +227%
  • THE TSTC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $70k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • BC
    BOYS CLUB OF PHARRgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +254%
  • RJ
    ROY & JOANN COLE MITTE CULTURAL DIS
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • AL
    American Legion Post 205graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue ×13 · 71% of their budget

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
Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education
2
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
3
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
4
Texans Care for Children Inc

Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…

Crime & Legal
5
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
6
Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc

Good Samaritan Foundation (GSF) is a fundraising and grant-making organization dedicated solely to Texas nursing. Its mission is to increase the number of nurses dedicated to clinical care and to improve the quality of nurse education and…

Education
7
South Texas Rural Health Services

South Texas Rural Health Services, Inc. provides charitable health services, including the recruitment of health care personnel to the rural service area, and primarily serves the low income population.

Health
8
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
9
Atascosa Health Center Inc

Health care services are provided to low to moderate income families who are residents of South Texas. Services are provided at a low cost are based on abiilty to pay base. Approximately 18,022 patients were served in the fiscal year.

Health
10
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
11
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

12
Boys & Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas

To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Post 205. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%6%<5yr16%5%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr11%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%3%<5yr16%3%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr10%18%35–55yr11%18%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/104
the rest of the field
16%
6,471/40,310

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 193 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/94
Grantees still filing
67/94
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY — $382,467 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEYTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY — $327,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY+131 more — $2,876,887 · Other+131 moreTeach for America Inc — $90,000 · EducationTeach for A…CATCH THE NEXT INC — $75,000 · EducationCATCH THE N…THE TSTC FOUNDATION — $70,000 · EducationTHE TSTC FO…SOUTH TEXAS LITERACY COALITION — $60,000 · EducationSOUTH TEXAS…Texas A&M Foundation — $47,000 · EducationTexas A&M F…IDEA Public Schools — $41,042 · EducationIDEA Public…PROJECT TRANSFORMATION RIO TEXAS — $30,000 · EducationPROJECT TRA…Fishing's Future — $30,000 · EducationFishing's F…CATCH Global Foundation — $20,000 · Education+11 more — $80,910 · Education+11 moreGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO — $60,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMA…FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER AN…CAPABLE KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesCAPABLE K…ANGELS OF LOVE — $35,000 · Human ServicesANGELS OF…Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesGood Neig…AURORA HOUSE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesAURORA HO…Camp Aranzazu Inc — $27,000 · Human ServicesCamp Aran…SUNSHINE HAVEN INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE …IT'S TIME TEXAS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesIT'S TIME…PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesValley Haven Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesLOAVES AND FISHES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC — $20,000 · Human Services+5 more — $64,500 · Human Services+5 moreSOUTH TEXAS JUVENILE DIABETES ASSOCIATION — $75,352 · HealthSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $65,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital — $60,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $25,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,000 · HealthFORM COMMUNITIES INC — $25,000 · HealthACCESS ESPERANZA CLINICS INC — $20,000 · HealthHOLY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $20,000 · HealthAMAZING BLISS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthNUEVA LUZ FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthBROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED — $15,000 · HealthSEA TURTLE INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY — $25,130 · Arts & CultureGUADALUPE EL TORRERO FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCommunities in Schools of Cameron County — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC — $101,620 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF PHARR — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEXAS RAMP PROJECT — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterAMIGOS DEL VALLE INC — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterPROYECTO AZTECA INC — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,586,354Education$543,952Human Services$461,500Health$360,352Arts & Culture$155,130Youth Development$136,620Housing & Shelter$125,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC — $101,620 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS JUVENILE DIABETES ASSOCIATION — $75,352 over 4y, 19% of budgetCATCH THE NEXT INC — $75,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE TSTC FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTEAM MARIO — $70,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT — $70,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS LITERACY COALITION — $60,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO — $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSEA TURTLE INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $47,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG HEROES INC — $45,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetIDEA Public Schools — $41,042 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCAPABLE KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFriendship of Women Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMIGOS DEL VALLE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetANGELS OF LOVE — $35,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF PHARR — $35,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 205 — $30,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION RIO TEXAS — $30,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetAURORA HOUSE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFishing's Future — $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCOMFORT HOUSE SERVICES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $28,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCamp Aranzazu Inc — $27,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY — $25,130 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIO GRANDE HABITAT FOR HUMANITYINC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetIT'S TIME TEXAS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCATCH Global Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetValley Haven Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY ENDEAVORS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS ESPERANZA CLINICS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOLY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBROWNSVILLE WELLNESS COALITION — $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Mission Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetGUADALUPE EL TORRERO FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc
  • Who funds SOUTH TEXAS JUVENILE DIABETES ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CATCH THE NEXT INC
  • Who funds THE TSTC FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TEAM MARIO
  • Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC
  • Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds SOUTH TEXAS LITERACY COALITION
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO
  • Who funds SEA TURTLE INC
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation
  • Who funds BIG HEROES INC
  • Who funds IDEA Public Schools
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC
  • Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CAPABLE KIDS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Friendship of Women Inc
  • Who funds AMIGOS DEL VALLE INC
  • Who funds ANGELS OF LOVE
  • Who funds Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS

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.

Valley Baptist Legacy FoundationTX80.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Knapp Community Care Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education · The Moody Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Serafy Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jules D Gosseaux Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800

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 Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 22%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America22% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
37report 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, 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Raul Tijerina Jr 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 193 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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