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RCB Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$67k
Granted FY2026still arriving
45
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$109kCommunity Improvement$97kEducation$59kHousing & Shelter$43kPublic Benefit$41kArts & Culture$40kYouth Development$29kHealth$21kOther$0
02FY2026 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lawrence Partnership$7,500
Reading Scholarship Foundation$5,000
LEO Inc$5,000
Greater Boston Stage Company$5,000
Camp Fire North Shore$3,500
Friends of North Reading Council on Aging$3,000
Boys & Girls Club of Lynn$2,724
Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc$2,500
YMCA of Greater Boston$2,500
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center$2,300
Cultura Latina Dance Academy Inc$1,590
My Brother's Table$1,500
Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School$1,500
Wakefield Independence Day Committee Inc$1,200
Social Capital Inc$1,150
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 (FY21–26, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%YMCA of Greater Boston: $6k → 16%Burbank YMCA: $15k → 8%YMCA of Greater Boston: $5k → 16%YMCA of Greater Boston: $3k → 16%Burbank YMCA: $10k → 8%YMCA of Greater Boston: $1k → 16%Mission of Deeds Inc: $4k → 8%Mission of Deeds Inc: $3k → 8%Family Services of the Merrimack Valley: $8k → 10%Mission of Deeds Inc: $3k → 8%Family Services of the Merrimack Valley: $8k → 10%Family Services of the Merrimack Valley: $7k → 10%Family Services of the Merrimack Valley: $1k → 10%Family Services of the Merrimack Valley: $1k → 10%Mission of Deeds Inc: $900 → 8%Mission of Deeds Inc: $603 → 8%Lawrence Family Development Inc: $250 → 10%Samantha's Harvest Company Inc: $200 → 8%Samantha's Harvest Company Inc: $200 → 8%Lawrence Family Development Inc: $250 → 10%Samantha's Harvest Company Inc: $200 → 8%Samantha's Harvest Company Inc: $100 → 8%Minuteman Senior Services: $1k → 8%Family & Children's Service of Greater Lynn: $500 → 10%Mystic Valley Elder Services Inc: $5k → 8%Mystic Valley Elder Services Inc: $5k → 8%AgeSpan Inc: $2k → 10%Mystic Valley Elder Services Inc: $1k → 8%AgeSpan (fka Elder Services Merrimack Valley): $1k → 10%Mystic Valley Elder Services Inc: $1k → 8%Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: $1k → 10%The Bridge: $500 → 8%Lynn Rotary Charitable Corp: $4k → 10%Andover Senior Community Friends: $1k → 10%The Professional Center for Child Development: $1k → 10%Partners in Child Development: $500 → 10%The Professional Center for Child Development: $500 → 10%People Helping People: $1k → 8%The Professional Center for Child Development: $500 → 10%Andover Senior Community Friends: $500 → 10%Partners in Child Development: $450 → 10%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.
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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 9% of RCB Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 88%.

RCB Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.3% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$464k · 55 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2026, 31 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
51

Total granted

$464k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+9%

Still filing today

73%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity 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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $40k · revenue +46%
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY
    4× · 2022–2026 · $36k · revenue +9%
  • LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • NECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +93%
  • WH
    WINCHESTER HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +10%
  • JL
    JAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +47%
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
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
2
Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
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3
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
4
Massachusetts High Technology Council Inc

The Massachusetts High Technology Council, Inc. is an organization of CEOs andsenior executives representing technology companies, professional services firms,and research institutions who are dedicated to creating and sustaining…

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5
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
6
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
7
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp

The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…

Crime & Legal
8
Meor of Boston Inc
Religion
9
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

—
10
Massachusetts Senior Action Council Inc

The massachusetts senior action council, inc.'s (the organization) mission is to provide a collective voice for senior citizens to address quality-of-life concerns in various areas including health care, housing and security.

Civil Rights
11
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
12
Lawrence Extended Day Program Inc

Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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, 2017–2026.

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. 94 of the 127 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/94
Grantees still filing
62/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC: $25,000 · OtherLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INCGREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $23,700 · OtherGREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INCLEO Inc: $20,000 · OtherLEO IncREADING PUBLIC LIBRARY: $13,500 · OtherTOWN OF ANDOVER: $13,333 · OtherREADING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INCNECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC: $10,000 · Other+66 more: $122,719 · Other+66 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $39,610 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $24,898 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF TH…MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesMYSTIC VALLEY AGING S…Mission of Deeds Inc: $11,821 · Human ServicesMission of Deeds IncLYNN ROTARY CHARITABLE CORPORATION: $4,200 · Human ServicesAGESPAN INC: $4,000 · Human Services+9 more: $9,150 · Human Services+9 moreLawrence Partnership Inc: $51,500 · Community ImprovementLawrence Part…CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE OF NORTH READING INC: $6,500 · Community ImprovementCHRISTIAN COM…ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEURS…+3 more: $2,550 · Community ImprovementGREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY: $36,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURA LATINA DANCE ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $2,090 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentJAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC: $4,968 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC: $4,160 · Youth DevelopmentMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentLEADS Inc: $15,000 · EducationTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT: $8,730 · EducationREADING ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUST: $4,250 · Education+7 more: $3,596 · EducationGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $9,500 · HealthWINCHESTER HOSPITAL: $7,500 · HealthELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $2,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,550 · HealthGood Hope Inc: $1,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS LIONS EYE RESEARCH FUND INC: $1,000 · Health+4 more: $1,625 · Health
Other$260,752Human Services$105,679Community Improvement$65,550Arts & Culture$40,590Youth Development$33,628Education$31,576Health$24,175

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 budgetLawrence Partnership Inc: $51,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $39,610 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY: $36,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $24,898 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $23,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLEADS Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREADING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMission of Deeds Inc: $11,821 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT: $8,730 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWINCHESTER HOSPITAL: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NORTH READING PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE: $7,300 over 3y, 40% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE OF NORTH READING INC: $6,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetJAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADING ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUST: $4,250 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $4,132 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAGESPAN INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD & ROSES INC: $3,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMY BROTHER'S TABLE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $2,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Haven Project Inc: $1,822 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS INN INC: $1,740 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Lawrence Kiwanis Club Foundation Inc: $1,640 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSOCIAL CAPITAL INC: $1,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANDOVER SENIOR COMMUNITY FRIENDS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ TURNER HOOD SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEssex Art Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LIONS EYE RESEARCH FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTEC Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA83× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Artemas W Stearns Trust · American Tower Corporation 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 RCB Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from RCB Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Lawrence Family Development Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Minuteman Senior Services Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Ipswich River Watershed Association: 68% of income from government
  • Agespan Inc: 57% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Partners in Child Development Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
  • Straight Ahead Ministries Inc: 27% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Citizens Inn Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Maddies Promise Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Nectar Community Investments Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Social Capital Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Neighbors in Need Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Tufts Medicine Care at Home Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Essex Art Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Stage Company: 2% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Cultura Latina Dance Academy Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Winchester Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to RCB Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to RCB Charitable Foundation Inc 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 127 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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