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Stevens Square Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$637k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
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 FY20192025.

Human Services$2.1MFood & Nutrition$516kHealth$322kHousing & Shelter$289kCrime & Legal$214kInternational$210kCommunity Improvement$97kArts & Culture$64kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $635k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS & CO$30,000
CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN$30,000
TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH$30,000
MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AID$26,000
PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES$26,000
HELP AT YOUR DOOR$25,500
DARTS$25,500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAINT PAUL$25,500
CAPI USA$25,500
THE OPEN DOOR$25,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA-MINNESOTAWISCONSIN$25,000
OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA$25,000
FAMILYMEANS$25,000
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES$25,000
COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC$25,000
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 (FY19–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%DARTS: $28k → 6%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 11%FRIENDS & CO: $30k → 14%FAMILYMEANS: $30k → 6%DARTS: $28k → 6%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $29k → 11%FRIENDS & CO: $25k → 14%FAMILYMEANS: $30k → 6%DARTS: $26k → 6%MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER: $20k → 14%FAMILYMEANS: $25k → 6%DARTS: $25k → 6%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 11%FAMILYMEANS: $25k → 6%DARTS: $25k → 6%FAMILYMEANS: $25k → 6%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 11%DARTS: $20k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAINT PAUL: $26k → 14%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $23k → 11%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $30k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $30k → 11%VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 14%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $30k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $28k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $27k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $27k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $27k → 11%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $25k → 11%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $25k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 11%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $25k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $20k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $20k → 11%MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER: $28k → 14%MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER: $28k → 14%PRISM - PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $30k → 11%PRISM: $28k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 11%SEWA-AIFW INC: $30k → 11%LONGFELLOWSEWARD HEALTHY SENIORS: $23k → 11%LONGFELLOWSEWARD HEALTHY SENIORS: $21k → 11%AGE WELL AT HOME: $30k → 11%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 52 repeat orgs$438k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
25

Total granted

$3.6M
$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationCivil RightsOther

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

  • D
    DARTS
    6× · 2019–2025 · $152k · revenue +41%
  • KC
    Keystone Community Services
    5× · 2019–2024 · $139k · revenue +127%
  • F
    FAMILYMEANS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • AW
    AGE WELL AT HOME
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -68%
  • TC
    TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +33%
  • A
    AEON
    one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +24%

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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

2
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
3
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
4
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
5
Community Neighborhood Housing Services

Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…

Housing & Shelter
6
Open Cities Health Center Inc

Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Health
7
Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc

Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.

Community Improvement
8
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

9
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

10
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

11
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

12
Central Minnesota Council On Aging Inc

The central minnesota council on aging is committed to maintaining the highest level of independence with older people by developing and coordinating community care, reducing isolation and improving access to services.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Lao Advancement Organization of America. 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 backsteadyDisability Services & Emplo…Arts & Cultural Organizatio…Accessible Supportive Housi…Family FoundationsYouth & Family Support Serv…Medical Research & Disease …Faith-Based Child & Youth S…Community Foundations and D…Public Charter 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr13%26%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%1/63
the rest of the field
14%
1,903/13,202

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

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 79 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
47/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DARTS — $151,500 · Human ServicesDARTSFAMILYMEANS — $135,000 · Human ServicesFAMILYMEANSCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $132,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INCSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $132,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICESMINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER — $121,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTERTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH — $105,000 · Human ServicesTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTHLongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program — $100,000 · Human ServicesLongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors ProgramCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $99,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO TYRONE GUZMANPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $97,000 · Human ServicesSABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER — $90,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $85,000 · Human ServicesFriends & Co — $75,000 · Human Services+17 more — $527,883 · Human Services+17 moreMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AID — $153,500 · OtherMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AIDVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA-MINNESOTAWISCONSIN — $151,500 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA-MINNESOTAWISCONSINKeystone Community Services — $139,000 · OtherKeystone Community ServicesIndividual grant recipient — $113,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVEAP Inc — $96,500 · OtherVEAP IncHELP AT YOUR DOOR — $95,500 · OtherHELP AT YOUR DOORNOKOMIS HEALTHY SENIORS — $78,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $62,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES — $62,000 · OtherNORTH END-SOUTH COMO BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM — $60,000 · Other+29 more — $605,750 · Other+29 moreRebuilding Together - Twin Cities — $78,000 · Housing & ShelterAEON — $28,000 · Housing & ShelterHEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC — $22,500 · Housing & ShelterNORTHCOUNTRY COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $80,000 · Food & NutritionTHE OPEN DOOR — $45,000 · Food & NutritionCAPI USA — $111,500 · InternationalLAO ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $78,000 · EducationMINNESOTA LEADERSHIP COUNCIL ON AGING — $5,300 · EducationConflict Resolution Center — $60,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$1,850,883Other$1,691,750Housing & Shelter$143,500Food & Nutrition$125,000International$111,500Education$83,300Crime & Legal$60,000

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 budgetDARTS — $151,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetKeystone Community Services — $139,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILYMEANS — $135,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $132,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $132,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER — $121,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCAPI USA — $111,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH — $105,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program — $100,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $99,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $97,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVEAP Inc — $96,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHELP AT YOUR DOOR — $95,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER — $90,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRebuilding Together - Twin Cities — $78,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLAO ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $78,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetFriends & Co — $75,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $62,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetConflict Resolution Center — $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMinneapolis American Indian Center — $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS — $53,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEWA-AIFW — $48,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetALEXANDRA HOUSE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVISION LOSS RESOURCES INC — $42,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSouthern Anoka Community Assistance — $42,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $41,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL — $40,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK FOR SENIORS — $40,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetKAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetELDER VOICE ADVOCATES — $35,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCOMPAS INC — $31,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAGE WELL AT HOME — $30,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES — $30,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAEON — $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $25,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC — $22,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetOPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS — $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIVING VOICE INITIATIVE — $16,000 over 1y, 5.1% 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 DARTS
  • Who funds Keystone Community Services
  • Who funds FAMILYMEANS
  • Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC
  • Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER
  • Who funds CAPI USA
  • Who funds TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH
  • Who funds LongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program
  • Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN
  • Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY
  • Who funds VEAP Inc
  • Who funds HELP AT YOUR DOOR
  • Who funds SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA
  • Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC
  • Who funds Rebuilding Together - Twin Cities
  • Who funds LAO ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
  • Who funds Friends & Co
  • Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES
  • Who funds Conflict Resolution Center
  • Who funds Minneapolis American Indian Center
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS
  • Who funds SEWA-AIFW
  • Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR
  • Who funds VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC
  • Who funds Southern Anoka Community Assistance
  • Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK FOR SENIORS
  • Who funds KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA
  • Who funds ELDER VOICE ADVOCATES

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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN74.8× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Pohlad Family 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 Stevens Square 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    30report 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, 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.

    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 79 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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