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Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans

To assist the state of kansas in helping to improve the health of all kansans, particularly those unserved or underserved.

$838k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$9.9MFood & Nutrition$3.1MRecreation & Sports$898kHuman Services$868kCommunity Improvement$785kPublic Benefit$474kEducation$426kEnvironment$315kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $796,310, the rows itemized in this filing. The $838,214 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,904 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $504k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$189M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thrive Allen County Inc$274,750
Kansas Department of Commerce$41,972
Kansas Trails Council$35,000
Wichita State University Community Engagement Institute$33,088
Kansas Rural Grocery Initiative - KSU$27,000
Genesis Family Health$25,000
Mercy and Truth Medical Missions Inc$25,000
Kansas Association of Community Foundations$22,500
Community HealthCare System$20,000
The Guidance Center$20,000
Harper County (Patterson Health)$20,000
Health Ministries$20,000
RHR of Jackson Co (Holton)$20,000
Coffey Health System$20,000
Rawlins County Dental Clinic$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $964k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Russell Child Development Center: $9k → 10%Marion County Food Bank: $4k → 10%Doniphan Darlings Inc: $25k → 11%Rosewood Roots & Wings Foundation: $30k → 14%Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas: $30k → 13%Graham County Little Roosters Daycare Foundation: $25k → 13%East Topeka Council on Aging Inc: $25k → 14%Options Domestic & Sexual Violence Services Inc: $25k → 14%Genesis Inc of Coffeyville: $25k → 15%Child Start Inc: $12k → 16%Kansas Public Health Association: $10k → 5%Neighbor to Neighbor Abilene: $25k → 10%Kansas Public Health Association: $10k → 5%Genesis Inc of Coffeyville: $4k → 15%Senior Services Inc of Wichita: $30k → 16%KC Healthy Kids: $30k → 16%Heart to Heart Child Advocacy Center: $30k → 9%Caney Valley Agape Network Inc: $25k → 15%Ready for Good CO: $25k → 15%Humanity House Foundation: $30k → 16%Shepherds Center of Kansas City Kansas: $25k → 16%Kansas Public Health Association: $20k → 5%KC Healthy Kids: $20k → 16%Kansas Public Health Association: $13k → 5%Allen Regional Transportation Inc: $25k → 16%KC Healthy Kids: $20k → 16%Kansas Public Health Association: $8k → 5%Family Promise of Lawrence: $20k → 15%Kansas Public Health Association: $6k → 5%Kansas Action for Children Inc: $62k → 14%United Community Services of Johnson County Inc: $13k → 5%Friends of Johnson County Developmental Support: $25k → 5%Friends of JCDS Inc: $22k → 5%Arms of Grace DBA Center of Grace: $25k → 5%Kansas Action for Children Inc: $10k → 14%Kansas Action for Children Inc: $9k → 14%Safe Streets Wichita: $25k → 16%YWCA Wichita - Wichita Family Crisis Center: $5k → 16%Rainbows United Inc: $23k → 16%Wichita Birth Justice Society: $25k → 16%Catholic Charities Inc: $10k → 16%Wichita Children's Home: $28k → 16%Braided Haven Inc: $20k → 14%Sheltered Living Inc: $18k → 14%Community Action Inc: $10k → 14%Oral Health Kansas Inc: $13k → 14%Topeka JUMP: $30k → 14%Florence Crittenton Services: $3k → 14%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

IL
MA
CA
CO
MO
AZ
KS
DC
OK
TX
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 83 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
198

Total granted

$13M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

75%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • KF
    KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +42%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $745k · revenue +70%
  • HM
    HEALTH MINISTRIES CLINIC INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $580k · revenue +458%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $375k · revenue +65%
  • HK
    HEADQUARTERS KANSAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $205k · revenue +2%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -14%
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
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

Health
3
Kansas Hospital Association

The vision of the Association is optimal health for Kansans. The Association's mission is to be the leading advocate and resource for members.

—
4
Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
5
Kansas Coalition for Common Sense Inc

Providing innovative research, message guidance, communication training, communication expertise,and collaborative strategies to aligned organizations to grow their capacity and improve collaborationand coordination among partner groups in…

Civil Rights
6
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
7
Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center

To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.

Health
8
The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center Inc

To advance the health of the douglas county community through comprehensive behavioral health services responsive to evolving needs and changing environments.

Health
9
Kansas City Care Clinic

The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.

—
10
Jefferson County Memorial Hospital Inc

Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County

Health
11
High Plains Mental Health Center Endowment Association Inc

Ensure the availability of quality mental health services to consumers of high plains mental health center

Education
12
Pivotal Health & Wellness Inc

Provide healthcare services and resources to courtland kansas and the surrounding rural communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Advocates for Better Care Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tower Mental Health Foundation. 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

224 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. 224 of the 291 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
218/224
Grantees still filing
127/224
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC: $745,192 · OtherCOMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INCDOUGLAS COUNTY KS: $650,000 · OtherDOUGLAS COUNTY KSREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $554,971 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS: $391,000 · OtherSEDGWICK COUNTY: $349,978 · OtherBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $325,000 · Other+98 more: $6,546,018 · Other+98 moreTHRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC: $558,143 · HealthTHRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INCCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC: $408,805 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER O…UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $375,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDI…American Heart Association Inc: $365,905 · HealthAmerican Heart Associatio…Healthcore Clinic Inc: $224,000 · HealthHealthcore Clinic IncCAREARC INC: $180,000 · HealthHEARTLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $176,000 · HealthLABETTE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $161,500 · Health+34 more: $1,528,052 · Health+34 moreKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $1,561,500 · Food & NutritionKANSAS FOOD…HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $97,500 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS …+5 more: $153,420 · Food & Nutrition+5 moreKANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN INC: $81,000 · Human ServicesKC Healthy Kids: $69,500 · Human ServicesKansas Public Health Association: $66,500 · Human ServicesFriends of Jcds Inc: $46,890 · Human ServicesTopeka Justice Unity and Ministry Project: $30,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA: $30,000 · Human ServicesHEART TO HEART CAC HARVEYMARIONMCPHERSON CAC INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesHUMANITY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesROSEWOOD SERVICES ROOTS AND WINGS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS INC OF COFFEYVILLE: $29,000 · Human Services+16 more: $390,926 · Human ServicesHEALTH MINISTRIES CLINIC INC: $579,500 · ReligionHUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC: $26,240 · ReligionBIKE WALK KC: $25,000 · ReligionLEGACY MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · ReligionHEALTHTEAMWORKS: $110,000 · Community ImprovementSTAFFORD COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementDESTINATION INNOVATION INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementHODGEMAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $59,625 · Community ImprovementSENT INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER TOPEKA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEAST KANSAS COMMUNITY ACTION P: $24,753 · Community ImprovementTHE HEALTHY BOURBON COUNTY ACTION T: $23,213 · Community ImprovementTOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $210,000 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH: $95,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT HOPE INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBULL CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyClaires Community Inc: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of Southeast Kansas: $24,500 · PhilanthropyKansas Association of Community Foundations: $22,500 · Philanthropy
Other$9,562,159Health$3,977,405Food & Nutrition$1,812,420Human Services$863,816Religion$655,740Community Improvement$482,591Philanthropy$427,000

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 budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $1,561,500 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC: $745,192 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetHEALTH MINISTRIES CLINIC INC: $579,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetTHRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC: $558,143 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC: $408,805 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS: $391,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $375,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $365,905 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $325,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNAMI KANSAS INC: $301,241 over 5y, 19% of budgetLEARNING TREE INSTITUTE AT GREENBUSH: $285,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetUNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC: $273,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHUNTER HEALTH CLINIC: $235,325 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHealthcore Clinic Inc: $224,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHEADQUARTERS KANSAS INC: $205,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCAREARC INC: $180,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHEARTLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $176,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLABETTE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $161,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetGROUNDWORK NORTHEAST REVITALIZATION: $137,682 over 5y, 10% of budgetKANSAS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $130,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHEALTHTEAMWORKS: $110,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetRURAL HEALTH RESOURCES OF JACKSON CO INC: $107,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity HealthCare System Inc: $107,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation: $105,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF KANSAS INC: $104,505 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $97,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH: $95,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKANSAS HEALTH INSTITUTE: $92,746 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAMBERWELL ATCHISON ASSOCIATION: $87,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNemaha Valley Community Hospital: $87,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHIAWATHA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $87,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN INC: $81,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSTAFFORD COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $75,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetDESTINATION INNOVATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetKANSAS SAMPLER FOUNDATION INC: $73,733 over 3y, 15% of budgetKC Healthy Kids: $69,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetKansas Public Health Association: $66,500 over 5y, 35% of budgetTOWER MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCOMMUNITIES CREATING OPPORTUNITY: $55,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHA Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTOPEKA CENTER FOR PEACE & JUCTICE: $55,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetRosedale Development Association: $55,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetKANSAS WILDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $53,420 over 2y, 22% of budgetCENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $53,125 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $52,500 over 2y, 1.6% 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 KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH MINISTRIES CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEARNING TREE INSTITUTE AT GREENBUSH ↗
  • Who funds UNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Healthcore Clinic Inc ↗
  • Who funds TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEADQUARTERS KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAREARC INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds LABETTE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDWORK NORTHEAST REVITALIZATION ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHTEAMWORKS ↗
  • Who funds RURAL HEALTH RESOURCES OF JACKSON CO INC ↗
  • Who funds Community HealthCare System Inc ↗
  • Who funds Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗

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.

Kansas Health FoundationKS168.9× affinity97 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kansas Health Foundation · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · The Patterson Family Foundation · Wichita Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · The Reach Healthcare Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable 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 Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 83%
  • Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation: 83% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 291 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 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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