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Stuart S Applebaum Giving Foundation

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.

$354k
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$527kPhilanthropy$465kHealth$247kArts & Culture$227kAnimals$151kReligion$143kCivil Rights$47kHuman Services$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$215k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$75,000
QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$70,000
FRIENDLY CAT RESCUE$40,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$26,000
92ND STREET Y$20,018
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK$20,000
PEN AMERICA$15,000
FIRST BOOK$9,000
NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION$9,000
THE CENTER FOR FICTION$6,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$5,000
BINC FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$4,018
POETS & WRITERS$4,000
THE SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM$3,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WE CAN: $500 → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%BLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (SMOKY MOUNTAIN MEALS ON WHEELS): $500 → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%LEARNING ALLY: $600 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $800 → 14%LEARNING ALLY: $600 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $600 → 14%LEARNING ALLY: $600 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%LEARNING ALLY: $500 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%LEARNING ALLY: $500 → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $500 → 11%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $750 → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $1k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $1k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $1k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $1k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $1k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $818 → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $1k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $1k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $800 → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $2k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%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

NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Stuart S Applebaum Giving Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Stuart S Applebaum Giving Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 82 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
27

Total granted

$1.9M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+8%

Still filing today

74%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $462k · revenue +39%
  • TQ
    THE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $271k · revenue +179%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • HI
    HELPHOPELIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +46%
  • GF
    GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • TS
    The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +47%
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
5
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
6
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
7
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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8
Manhattanville University

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

Education
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

—
10
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Queens Library Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mesa Verde Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 115 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
62/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $271,000 · OtherTHE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCFRIENDLY CAT RESCUE INC: $148,000 · OtherFRIENDLY CAT RESCUE INCNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC: $45,500 · OtherNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INCMSK: $45,000 · OtherMSKBINC FOUNDATION: $37,500 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $34,000 · Other+59 more: $253,681 · Other+59 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $462,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDER…+2 more: $3,100 · PhilanthropyTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $117,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF T…FIRST BOOK: $54,500 · EducationFIRST BOOKTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE MERCANTIL…Literacy Partners Inc: $13,500 · EducationLiteracy Part…+7 more: $23,700 · Education+7 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $86,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $28,200 · HealthMEMORIAL S…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $22,300 · HealthALZHEIMER'…JBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,008 · HealthCancer Care Inc: $6,800 · Health+13 more: $28,022 · Health+13 morePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $46,200 · Arts & CultureWNET: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePOETS AND WRITERS INC: $16,500 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $12,084 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $10,726 · Arts & CultureMESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $10,600 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $7,400 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $120,054 · ReligionDOROT INC: $11,972 · Human ServicesHEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $9,350 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $5,700 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,400 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc: $3,300 · Human Services+3 more: $1,818 · Human Services
Other$834,681Philanthropy$465,100Education$238,700Health$179,330Arts & Culture$123,510Religion$120,054Human Services$36,540

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $462,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $271,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $120,054 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $117,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $86,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $54,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $46,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC: $45,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $28,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $22,300 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $21,954 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $16,708 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS AND WRITERS INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc: $13,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $12,084 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $11,972 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $10,726 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $10,600 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetHEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $9,350 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,008 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC: $7,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $7,375 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $6,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $6,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $6,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC: $5,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $5,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE THE HARVEST FARM INC FKA FOOD PANTRY FARM INCORPORATED: $4,200 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT FUND INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $3,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRANDELL THEATRE INC: $3,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEBANON FOOD PANTRY: $3,700 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMet Council Inc: $3,454 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $3,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KRZYZOWA KREISAU FOUNDATION: $3,300 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER INC: $3,100 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC: $2,900 over 4y, 0.0% 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
  • Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds POETS AND WRITERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Literacy Partners Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOROT INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MESA VERDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds JBI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Cancer Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS WRITE NOW INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY18.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · National Book Foundation Inc · The Poetry Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · American Express Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Stuart S Applebaum Giving Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stuart S Applebaum Giving Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • We Can Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report 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, 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.

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 115 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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