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Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

International$8.1MCivil Rights$5.0MFood & Nutrition$4.9MEducation$3.5MArts & Culture$3.0MHuman Services$1.0MHealth$950kCrime & Legal$500kPhilanthropy$250kOther$9.3M
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $529k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+13 grants · $7.6M
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$291M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$1,900,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC$1,000,000
WE CHARITY$1,000,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$600,000
UPSTREAM USA INC$500,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$500,000
ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC (ISRAAID)$500,000
Individual grant recipient$325,000
MARSHALL UNIVERSITY$250,000
NEW VENTURE FUND DBA THEDREAMUS$250,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INC$250,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$250,000
TEACH FOR ALL INC$250,000
CONGREGATION BETH JACOB$115,000
KARA$100,000
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 (FY20–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $40k → 18%KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION: $40k → 18%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $40k → 18%KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION: $40k → 18%DIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVING: $40k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $40k → 18%KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION: $40k → 18%DIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVING: $40k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $40k → 18%KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION: $40k → 18%DIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVING: $40k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $40k → 18%KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION: $40k → 18%YWCA SILICON VALLEY: $400k → 8%YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $100k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
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CA
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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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.2% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 41 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
15

Total granted

$30M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+20%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthFood & NutritionInternationalCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +63%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +45%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • I
    ISRAAID
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TENNESSEE AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI
    one grant, 2022 · $250k

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
Kaiser Foundation for the Advancement of Integrated Health Care

Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…

Health
2
California Planned Parenthood Education Fund Inc

Cppef works to assure that all individuals have the freedom to make reproductive decisions and, in order for people to make healthy decisions, they should have access to comprehensive information and services related to sexuality,…

Health
3
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast

To improve our communities' sexual and reproductive health outcomes through health care, education, and advocacy.

Health
4
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Kfhpw Holdings

Supporting kaiser permanente organizations which provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

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9
Planned Parenthoodorange and San Bernardino Counties Inc

Planned parenthood orange and san bernardino counties provides an exceptional health care experience for every patient, protects and promotes the fundamental right of all individuals to make their own personal health decisions, and…

Health
10
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
11
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
12
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California Inc

Organized to promote and coordinate the provision of education, counseling and clinical services and to support or oppose administrative action, regulations and legislation in the field of family planning and comprehensive sexual and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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 backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Women & Girls Leadership De…Christian Youth CampsPregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 Schools
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 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,709

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.

05the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 66 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
38/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC (ISRAAID) — $2,000,000 · OtherISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASS…NEW VENTURE FUND DBA THEDREAMUS — $1,250,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND DBA THEDREAMUSFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL — $1,000,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRA…Individual grant recipient — $825,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientISRAAID — $500,000 · OtherMARSHALL UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · OtherKARA — $500,000 · OtherUpstream USA Inc — $500,000 · OtherPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $500,000 · Other+32 more — $3,433,875 · Other+32 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $6,500,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Comm…WE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC — $1,000,000 · InternationalWE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORA…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $500,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANC…+1 more — $50,000 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $2,500,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $1,900,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH…PACER CENTER INC — $550,000 · Civil RightsPACER CENTER IN…+1 more — $10,000 · Civil RightsSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $3,800,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST …Yuba Sutter Gleaners Food Bank Inc — $200,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC — $200,000 · Food & NutritionFoodlink for Tulare County Inc — $200,000 · Food & NutritionYOLO FOOD BANK — $200,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $310,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 moreTEACH FOR ALL INC — $2,250,000 · EducationTEACH FOR …KIPP FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · EducationKIPP FOUND…+2 more — $200,000 · Education+2 moreFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS O…+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureYWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY — $500,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN — $200,000 · Human ServicesKINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesDIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVING — $120,000 · Human Services
Other$11,008,875International$8,050,000Civil Rights$4,960,000Food & Nutrition$4,910,000Education$3,450,000Arts & Culture$3,010,000Human Services$1,020,000

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 budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $6,500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $3,800,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $3,000,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $2,500,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC — $2,250,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $1,900,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetPACER CENTER INC — $550,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetUpstream USA Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $500,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetYWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY — $500,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetKARA — $500,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED — $250,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES — $250,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYuba Sutter Gleaners Food Bank Inc — $200,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN — $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMendocino Food and Nutrition Inc — $200,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC — $200,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFoodlink for Tulare County Inc — $200,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetYOLO FOOD BANK — $200,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC — $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Action Agency of Butte County Inc — $200,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MERCED COUNTY FOOD BANK — $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK — $160,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVING — $120,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGIRL EFFECT INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe ONE Campaign — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGBOWEE PEACE FOUNDATION AFRICA-USA — $100,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION NORTH — $80,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS — $75,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTOOLS & TIARAS INC — $70,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHARTORG — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES — $28,875 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

California Foundation…Calfoods LogisticsCalifornia Associatio…The PG&E Corporation …Silicon Valley Commun…Delta Dental Communit…The David and Lucile …Jewish Community Fede…The Albertsons Compan…Feeding AmericaCentral California Fo…Farmlink Project
California Foundation for Stronger CommunitiesCA29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Calfoods Logistics · California Association of Food Banks · The PG&E Corporation Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Feeding America · Central California Food Bank · Farmlink Project

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 Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Charitable 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Charitable 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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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