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Simmons Family Foundation Inc

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.

$290k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$637kHealth$231kYouth Development$128kPhilanthropy$126kArts & Culture$121kInternational$85kPublic Benefit$62kScience & Tech$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAGLES AUTISM FOUNDATION$70,000
REACH PREP INC$35,000
PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC$35,000
THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE$30,000
UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC$20,000
BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION$20,000
SOCIETY OF FOUR ARTS$10,000
GREENWICH COUNTRY CAY SCHOOL INC$10,000
PERSON-TO-PERSON INC$8,950
CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC$5,195
MV YOUTH INC$5,000
EMO AND CIV HELP THE WORLD CORP$5,000
THE STAMFORD HOSPITAL$5,000
BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC$3,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD SAFETY ASSOCIATION$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $5k → 16%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 22%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $250 → 9%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $13k → 20%HEALTH IN THE HOOD: $5k → 15%RIVER HOUSE: $500 → 14%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 22%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $5k → 20%HEALTH IN THE HOOD: $2k → 15%RIVER HOUSE: $500 → 14%HILL HOUSE: $200 → 16%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $5k → 20%RIVER HOUSE: $500 → 14%LIFE'S WORC: $5k → 6%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $5k → 20%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $5k → 20%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%GREENWICH ADULT DAY CARE INC: $250 → 9%THE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF GREENWICH INC: $250 → 9%THE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF GREENWICH INC: $250 → 9%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $1k → 17%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $6k → 9%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $2k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $1k → 9%STAMFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $2k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $1k → 9%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
AR
TN
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 78 repeat orgs$307k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

78 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
68

Total granted

$1.3M
$228k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+14%

Still filing today

83%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TR
    THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $245k · revenue +127%
  • RP
    REACH PREP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +67%
  • EA
    EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $84k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -15%
  • BM
    BRUCE MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -45%
  • TP
    THE PLANETARY SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
11
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

125 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. 125 of the 162 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/125
Grantees still filing
86/125
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $245,000 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTEREACH PREP INC: $192,000 · EducationREACH PREP INCPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $35,000 · EducationGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $34,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $23,000 · Education+19 more: $129,185 · Education+19 moreUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $60,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INCFRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY: $40,000 · OtherFRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT PRESIDE…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherYEAR UP: $15,000 · OtherHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $25,000 · OtherHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBL…PERSON TO PERSON INC: $15,767 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $27,500 · OtherTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION+73 more: $202,474 · Other+73 moreEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $84,333 · HealthEAGLES AUTISM…BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $33,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER…The Stamford Hospital: $25,250 · HealthThe Stamford …GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $24,500 · HealthGREENWICH HOS…BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthBILL HILLARY …+11 more: $14,400 · Health+11 moreSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $40,000 · Human ServicesYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $33,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $12,495 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $9,500 · Human ServicesBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $9,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH IN THE HOOD INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesNEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLIFE'S WORC INC: $5,000 · Human Services+6 more: $4,700 · Human ServicesBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PLANETARY SOCIETY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $11,310 · Arts & CultureWNET: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $5,650 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $10,550 · Arts & CultureCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $53,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $29,000 · International+6 more: $4,200 · InternationalMV YOUTH INC: $62,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,000 · Youth Development
Education$658,685Other$425,741Health$201,483Human Services$126,195Arts & Culture$117,510International$86,200Youth Development$74,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $245,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetREACH PREP INC: $192,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $84,333 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMV YOUTH INC: $62,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $53,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $34,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $33,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $33,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital: $25,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLANETARY SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $17,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $15,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $15,767 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREADYCT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCornell University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorwich University: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $12,495 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEW LEONARD III WATER SAFETY FD INC: $11,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $11,310 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC: $10,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWNET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $9,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $8,005 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOVERNOR'S PARTNERSHIP TO PROTECT CONNECTICUT'S WORKFORCE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH IN THE HOOD INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC: $6,935 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $5,700 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT40.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rich Foundation Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Panwy Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · The Stanton Family Foundation

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 Simmons Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simmons Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Mill River Collaborative Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Readyct Inc: 61% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Women's Business Development Council Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Hill House Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Stamford Senior Centerinc: 16% of income from government
  • Project Music Inc: 14% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Norwich University: 4% of income from government
  • Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Health in the Hood Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Mvyradio Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Silver Hill Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Simmons Family 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 162 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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