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Scott County Regional Authority

Holds gambling license and provides grants to local organizations to support the needs of Scott County, Iowa residents

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$5.1MRecreation & Sports$3.1MArts & Culture$2.4MHousing & Shelter$2.1MHuman Services$2.0MHealth$1.7MFood & Nutrition$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $638k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $633k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
City of Bettendorf$333,334
North Scott Community Schools$300,000
Vera French Foundation$200,715
Davenport Community Schools$175,267
Project Renewal$145,000
Pleasant Valley Community Sch$133,665
Putnam Museum & Science Cente$121,075
St Anthony Catholic Church$112,308
Riverbend Food Bank$100,000
Habitat for Humanity QC$100,000
YMCA of the Iowa Miss Valley$100,000
Quad Cities Housing Council$92,839
Community Health Care$90,252
Bettendorf Community Schools$77,450
Scott Community College Fonda$75,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Balance Autism: $10k → 10%Project Renewal: $145k → 12%PROJECT RENEWAL: $14k → 12%QC Closet2Closet: $7k → 15%QC Closet 2 Closet: $7k → 15%QC Closet 2 Closet: $7k → 15%Bethany for Children: $44k → 15%Bethany for Children: $43k → 15%Quad Cities Open Network: $40k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $40k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $37k → 15%Bethany for Children: $23k → 15%Quad Cities Open Network: $20k → 15%Milestones Area Agency on agi: $6k → 12%YMCA of the Iowa Miss Valley: $150k → 12%SCOTT COUNTY FAMILY Y: $150k → 12%Scott County Family Y: $150k → 12%YMCA of the Iowa Miss Valley: $100k → 12%SCOTT COUNTY FAMILY Y: $32k → 12%The Center: $50k → 12%LUTERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $7k → 12%Hand in Hand: $76k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $73k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $37k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $26k → 12%Hand in Hand: $25k → 12%Hand in Hand: $15k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $12k → 12%Hand in Hand: $8k → 12%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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 108 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

108 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
76

Total granted

$20M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+13%

Still filing today

66%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SC
    SCOTT COUNTY HOUSING COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $908k · revenue +5%
  • RB
    RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR
    8× · 2017–2024 · $868k · revenue +71%
  • VF
    Vera French Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · $591k · revenue +44% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • MC
    MUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • PV
    PLEASNT VALLEY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $140k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MLK
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · 31% 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
Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce

The quad cities chamber of commerce is a combined chamber of commerce, economic, and community development organization serving the greater quad cities region. the quad cities chamber of commerce's mission is to strengthen and enhance the…

Community Improvement
2
Quad Cities Cultural & Educational Supporting Charitable Trust

The trust shall be exclusively for the charitable, cultural, literary, scientific, and educational purposes necessary to provide support to irc sec 501(c)(3) organizations located in davenport, iowa and rock island, illinois.

Philanthropy
3
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.

Community Improvement
4
Quad Cities Interfaith

Qci is a community of people living out our faith and values collectively to transform our society and bring about justice and human dignity locally and regionally. qci exists to empower ordinary people to effectively participate in the…

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5
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…

Community Improvement
6
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

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7
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
8
Iowa City Downtown Self Supported Municipal Improvement District

Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.

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9
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.

Human Services
10
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
11
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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12
Iowa Lakes Corridor Development Cor

To foster, encourage, aid or otherwise assist in the economic growth and development of the four-county region of buena vista, clay, dickinson and emmet counties in iowa.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quad Cities Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Better Health Foundation Melinda Gowey. 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 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%3%<5yr11%10%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr22%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr11%3%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr22%28%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%4/172
the rest of the field
14%
109/805

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

112 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. 112 of the 192 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/112
Grantees still filing
76/112
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

City of Bettendorf — $1,660,523 · OtherCity of BettendorfDAVENPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $1,588,901 · OtherDAVENPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTNorth Scott Community Schools — $709,448 · OtherBETTENDORF COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $649,694 · OtherPleasant Valley Community Sch — $639,796 · OtherVera French Foundation — $590,826 · Other+132 more — $9,338,956 · Other+132 morePUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER — $467,977 · Arts & CulturePUTNAM MUS…QUAD CITY ARTS INC — $365,000 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY …FIGGE ART MUSEUM — $293,117 · Arts & CultureFIGGE ART …FAMILY MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $291,346 · Arts & CultureFAMILY MUS…QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $144,466 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY …COMMON CHORD — $123,884 · Arts & CultureCOMMON CHO…BALLET QUAD CITIES — $118,510 · Arts & CultureBALLET QUA…+8 more — $227,938 · Arts & Culture+8 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY — $582,000 · Human ServicesHAND IN HAND — $272,150 · Human ServicesBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES — $186,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT — $158,995 · Human ServicesQUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER — $50,000 · Human Services+6 more — $89,981 · Human ServicesSCOTT COUNTY HOUSING COUNCIL — $908,200 · Housing & ShelterHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC — $129,696 · Housing & ShelterECUMENICAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT GROUP — $125,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more — $53,532 · Housing & ShelterST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY — $399,318 · EducationWestern Illinois University Foundation — $234,059 · EducationAUGUSTANA COLLEGE — $121,139 · EducationBETTENDORF PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $89,059 · EducationSTEAM ON WHEELS — $60,780 · EducationPALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Education+5 more — $73,971 · EducationRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $868,196 · Food & NutritionFREIGHT HOUSE FARMERS MARKET INC — $58,000 · Food & NutritionEMPOWERING ABILITIES — $206,509 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY IOWA & NW ILLINOIS — $170,643 · HealthUnity House of Davenport Inc — $139,250 · HealthGENESIS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — $85,934 · HealthTRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $34,000 · HealthDIXON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $27,526 · Health+2 more — $23,997 · Health
Other$15,178,144Arts & Culture$2,032,238Human Services$1,399,626Housing & Shelter$1,216,428Education$1,028,326Food & Nutrition$926,196Health$687,859

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCOTT COUNTY HOUSING COUNCIL — $908,200 over 8y, 24% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $868,196 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetVera French Foundation — $590,826 over 6y, 26% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY — $582,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER — $467,977 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - QUAD CITIES INC — $430,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY — $399,318 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 180 ZONE — $370,101 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetQUAD CITY ARTS INC — $365,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetYWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES — $349,922 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DAVENPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY — $295,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM — $293,117 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetFAMILY MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $291,346 over 7y, 31% of budgetHAND IN HAND — $272,150 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetCommunity Health Care Inc — $271,936 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWestern Illinois University Foundation — $234,059 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetQUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $212,051 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetEMPOWERING ABILITIES — $206,509 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCES INC — $203,783 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCORNBELT RUNNING CLUB — $200,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER — $190,238 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES — $186,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetELDRIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC — $175,500 over 6y, 17% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY — $171,006 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY IOWA & NW ILLINOIS — $170,643 over 3y, 25% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT — $158,995 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA — $157,383 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $144,466 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUnity House of Davenport Inc — $139,250 over 6y, 12% of budgetHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC — $129,696 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF MLK — $125,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetECUMENICAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT GROUP — $125,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetSCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetCOMMON CHORD — $123,884 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE — $121,139 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET QUAD CITIES — $118,510 over 2y, 13% of budgetRIVER ACTION INC — $107,990 over 3y, 14% of budgetQUAD CITY VETERANS OUTREACH INC — $104,462 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCenter for Active Seniors Inc — $99,496 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS QUAD CITIES — $99,260 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $96,703 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INC — $93,626 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC — $90,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBETTENDORF PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $89,059 over 5y, 17% of budgetGENESIS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — $85,934 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetEVERYCHILD — $81,924 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $77,754 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 SCOTT COUNTY HOUSING COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
  • Who funds Vera French Foundation ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - QUAD CITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE 180 ZONE ↗
  • Who funds QUAD CITY ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DAVENPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
  • Who funds Community Health Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds Western Illinois University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWERING ABILITIES ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNBELT RUNNING CLUB ↗
  • Who funds NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds ELDRIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY IOWA & NW ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA ↗
  • Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Quad Cities Community…Quad Cities Golf Clas…Doris & Victor Day Fo…United Way Quad CitiesMoline FoundationMarie H Bechtel Chari…Hubbell-Waterman FndnHarold R Bechtel Char…The Rock Island Commu…Rauch Family Foundati…Modern Woodmen of Ame…Roy J Carver Charitab…
Quad Cities Community FoundationIA159.9× affinity86 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · United Way Quad Cities · Moline Foundation · Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Modern Woodmen of America · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust

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 Scott County Regional Authority 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ 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.

    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 192 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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