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Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$8.1MAnimals$3.1MFood & Nutrition$1.0MHealth$839kHuman Services$713kScience & Tech$502kEducation$465kYouth Development$376kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k53 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $838k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$15,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN SONG BIRD MGMT AND RECOVERY$1,000,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$150,000
SALUDA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$145,000
KEWEENAW LAND TRUST$85,000
FRIENDS OF SAX-ZIMM BOG$80,000
CONSERVING CAROLINA$75,000
UNIQUE PLACES TO SAVE$73,000
WILDERNESS LAND TRUST$70,000
GLEN CANYON INSTITUTE$60,000
SOUTHERN APPALACHIEN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY$50,000
BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER$45,000
KEWEENAW LAND TRUST$42,000
SNOWDON WILDLIFE SANCTUARY$41,000
HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $557k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 9%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOG INC: $5k → 10%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 9%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 9%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 9%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 9%ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE NC: $10k → 13%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CATCH INC: $10k → 8%CATCH INC: $10k → 8%CATCH INC: $10k → 8%CATCH INC: $10k → 8%CATCH INC: $10k → 8%CATCH INC: $10k → 8%SHEPARDS HOME: $10k → 8%SHEPARD'S HOME: $10k → 8%SHEPARD'S HOME: $10k → 8%CATCH INC: $5k → 8%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $27k → 14%CATCH INC: $5k → 8%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $24k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $20k → 14%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $6k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME: $20k → 14%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $6k → 14%CATCH INC: $3k → 8%WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME: $20k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $15k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME: $15k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $15k → 14%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $2k → 14%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $25k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $25k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $25k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $25k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $20k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 8%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

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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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 206 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

206 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2025, 147 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

206
66

Total granted

$16M
$661k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+16%

Still filing today

56%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
EnvironmentAnimalsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $787k · revenue +127%
  • HL
    Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $595k · revenue +128% · 33% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SAX-ZIM BOG
    9× · 2017–2025 · $477k · revenue +671% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • E
    EARTHJUSTICE
    one grant, 2017 · $55k
  • CF
    CONSERVATION FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • OC
    OHIO CANYON INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $32k
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
Rainforest Trust

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

International
2
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
3
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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4
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
5
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
6
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
7
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
8
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
9
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
10
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
11
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
12
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Houghton County Historical 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

161 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. 161 of the 297 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)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
155/161
Grantees still filing
117/161
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN SONG BIRD MGMT AND RECOVERY: $1,000,000 · OtherAMERICAN SONG BIRD MGMT AND RECOVERY+114 more: $6,105,800 · Other+114 moreKEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOREST COMPANY: $598,000 · EnvironmentKEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOREST COMPANYHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc: $595,000 · EnvironmentHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust IncKEWEENAW LAND TRUST INC: $522,000 · EnvironmentKEWEENAW LAND TRUST INCEARTHJUSTICE: $436,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEGLEN CANYON INSTITUTE: $331,000 · EnvironmentGLEN CANYON INSTITUTENATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $320,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL…WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC: $195,500 · Environment+35 more: $2,059,500 · Environment+35 moreCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $787,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BI…HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION: $421,000 · AnimalsHUMANE FARMIN…SNOWDON WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $179,000 · AnimalsSNOWDON WILDL…CHIMP HAVEN INC: $100,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $95,000 · Animals+11 more: $438,000 · Animals+11 morePAYETTE LAND TRUST INC: $400,567 · Food & NutritionIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $172,500 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Inc: $168,000 · Food & NutritionMOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $62,500 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $49,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD TRUST: $37,500 · Food & NutritionCASCADE FOOD PANTRY: $35,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $58,000 · Food & NutritionTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $395,000 · InternationalBOUNTIFIELD INTERNATIONAL: $85,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $80,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $60,000 · InternationalNEPAL SOCIAL SERVICES FUND INC: $54,000 · InternationalRAZOM INC: $30,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF SAX-ZIM BOG: $477,000 · EducationTHE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC: $37,500 · EducationReal People Media Inc: $25,000 · EducationFRANKLIN CENTER: $23,000 · EducationPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC: $20,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $156,000 · Human ServicesPETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesCATCH INC: $73,000 · Human ServicesSHEPHERDS HOME INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $19,000 · Human Services+1 more: $14,000 · Human Services
Other$7,105,800Environment$5,057,000Animals$2,020,000Food & Nutrition$983,067International$704,000Education$582,500Human Services$542,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $787,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetKEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOREST COMPANY: $598,000 over 8y, 34% of budgetHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc: $595,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetKEWEENAW LAND TRUST INC: $522,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAX-ZIM BOG: $477,000 over 9y, 36% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $436,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION: $421,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetPAYETTE LAND TRUST INC: $400,567 over 3y, 20% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $395,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGLEN CANYON INSTITUTE: $331,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $320,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $216,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC: $195,500 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetSNOWDON WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $179,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $172,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $168,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $159,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $156,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSALUDA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $155,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY: $154,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $147,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSave the Scenic Santa Ritas: $135,000 over 7y, 62% of budgetConserving Carolina: $135,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $129,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition for Sonoran Desert Protection: $125,000 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $116,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budget30-DAYS FOUNDATION: $114,000 over 9y, 21% of budgetEarthworks: $111,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetUNIQUE PLACES TO SAVE: $108,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe Children's Chance Inc: $101,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC: $100,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMainspring Conservation Trust Inc: $95,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAVE CREEK CANYON: $94,500 over 8y, 20% of budgetFRESH ENERGY: $92,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST: $90,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBOUNTIFIELD INTERNATIONAL: $85,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $77,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCATCH INC: $73,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILD LANGUAGE CENTER INC: $68,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetLive Theatre Workshop: $65,500 over 8y, 2.4% 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.

  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds KEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOREST COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds KEWEENAW LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SAX-ZIM BOG ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PAYETTE LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds GLEN CANYON INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SNOWDON WILDLIFE SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds SALUDA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Save the Scenic Santa Ritas ↗
  • Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
  • Who funds PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection ↗

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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ35× affinity17 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Nature Conservancy · The Minneapolis Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Longview Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Conservation Trust for North Carolina · The McKnight Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · EcoTrust · Pohlad 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 Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 Steven C Leuthold Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 297 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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