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Seb Charitable Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$489kInternational$230kEnvironment$157kHealth$39kCommunity Improvement$31kCrime & Legal$27kFood & Nutrition$26kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k52 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
$1,033
Median grant
20
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$10,454
ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATION$10,454
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$10,300
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,150
GOTHAM FOOD PANTRY$6,060
THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE$5,282
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND (EDF)$5,209
WILD ANIMAL INITIATIVE$5,192
GIVEWELL$5,150
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$5,150
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE TOTAL$5,150
ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL$5,150
FAUNALYTICS$5,140
THE HUMANE LEAGUE$5,108
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$5,025
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, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $300 → 16%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $273 → 16%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $262 → 16%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $1k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $1k → 17%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

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NH
MN
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AR
TN
DC
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AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 59 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
43

Total granted

$1.0M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+2%

Still filing today

90%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
AnimalsInternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +41%
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $73k · revenue +84%
  • AW
    AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • HI
    HEAF INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • MF
    MERCY FOR ANIMALS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +130%

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
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
4
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
5
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
6
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is G Fredrick Charitable Foundation. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Local Food System Organizat…Christian Missionary Organi…Policy Research and AdvocacyAnimal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesJewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Ymca Youth DevelopmentHealth Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsCommunity College Foundatio…Community Foundations
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 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%13%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%44%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/101
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,659

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

99 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. 99 of the 121 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/99
Grantees still filing
58/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $72,450 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCWildlife Conservation Society — $50,990 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation SocietyWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION — $38,000 · AnimalsWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTIONPANTHERA CORPORATION — $31,727 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORATIONHumane World for Animals Inc — $28,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncDefenders of Wildlife — $25,550 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeCheetah Conservation Fund — $22,500 · AnimalsCheetah Conservation FundTHE HUMANE LEAGUE — $17,717 · AnimalsWILD ANIMAL INITIATIVE INC — $16,696 · AnimalsBrooklyn Animal Action Inc — $14,109 · Animals+23 more — $69,354 · Animals+23 moreORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL — $39,650 · OtherORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATI…ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATION — $36,586 · OtherANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATIONVARIOUS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS — $29,112 · OtherVARIOUS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIO…GIVEWELL — $25,950 · OtherGIVEWELLHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC — $20,000 · OtherHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES …VARIOUS GRANTS — $18,212 · OtherVARIOUS GRANTSFAUNALYTICS — $11,784 · OtherPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $15,445 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,815 · OtherNETWORK FOR GOOD — $11,284 · Other+48 more — $85,828 · Other+48 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $114,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCE…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $41,888 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DE…WILDLIFE CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — $11,000 · EnvironmentWILDLIFE CONSERV…+2 more — $1,104 · EnvironmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $67,650 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…International Rescue Committee INC — $46,318 · InternationalInternational Re…STRONGMINDS INC — $12,942 · InternationalSTRONGMINDS INC+11 more — $40,131 · International+11 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $72,648 · Health+2 more — $310 · HealthTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $16,637 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesCompassion in World Farming Inc — $1,500 · Human ServicesDOROT INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $1,000 · Human Services+1 more — $835 · Human ServicesTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $16,379 · Food & NutritionGOTHAM FOOD PANTRY INC — $7,333 · Food & Nutrition
Animals$387,093Other$304,666Environment$168,492International$167,041Health$72,958Human Services$26,972Food & Nutrition$23,712

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 budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $114,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $72,648 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $72,450 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $67,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $50,990 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $46,318 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $41,888 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL — $39,650 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION — $38,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION — $31,727 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $25,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund — $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE — $17,717 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILD ANIMAL INITIATIVE INC — $16,696 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $16,637 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $16,379 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $15,445 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Animal Action Inc — $14,109 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSTRONGMINDS INC — $12,942 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $12,841 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAUNALYTICS — $11,784 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $11,284 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,815 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOTHAM FOOD PANTRY INC — $7,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $6,175 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE2RWANDA INC — $5,515 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $5,175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOUBLE UP DRIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren International — $4,795 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPTA ASSOCIATION OF BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF INDEPENDENT SOCIAL IDEAS INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAcademic Freedom Alliance — $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% 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 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
  • Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION
  • Who funds PANTHERA CORPORATION
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc
  • Who funds Defenders of Wildlife
  • Who funds Cheetah Conservation Fund
  • Who funds HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC
  • Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE
  • Who funds WILD ANIMAL INITIATIVE INC
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds Brooklyn Animal Action Inc
  • Who funds STRONGMINDS INC
  • Who funds SAVE THE CHIMPS INC
  • Who funds FAUNALYTICS
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
  • Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC
  • Who funds THE CLEAR FUND
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
  • Who funds GOTHAM FOOD PANTRY INC
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE
  • Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC
  • Who funds BRIDGE2RWANDA INC

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.

Effective Ventures Foundation USA IncCA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · LBRB Fund Inc · ISRB Fund Inc · The Quinn Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The Ford Foundation · Animal Charity Evaluators · Good Ventures Foundation · The New York Community Trust · American Express Foundation

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 Seb Charitable Fund 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 · 80%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Brandeis University9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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How do I get to Seb Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Seb Charitable Fund 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 121 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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