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Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
78
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.4MHuman Services$3.0MHealth$2.2MEnvironment$1.1MYouth Development$885kHousing & Shelter$780kPhilanthropy$755kCommunity Improvement$505kOther$0
02FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $959k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES$300,000
KALAMAZOO CIVIC THEATRE$190,000
ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER$175,000
PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES$125,000
YWCA KALAMAZOO$122,581
LOCAL JOURNALISM FOUNDATION OF KALAMAZOO$117,418
HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO$110,000
CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$100,000
COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS$100,000
HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC$100,000
YMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$98,103
MRC INDUSTRIES INC$98,103
KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$98,103
PARKS FOUNDATION OF KALAMAZOO COUNTY$75,000
SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER$75,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $150k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $75k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $75k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $25k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $25k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $125k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $110k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $100k → 12%HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $90k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $60k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $50k → 12%LIFT FOUNDATION: $200k → 12%LIFT FOUNDATION: $200k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $15k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $150k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $150k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $35k → 12%KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES: $30k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 86%.

Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 60 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
21

Total granted

$12M
$956k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+10%

Still filing today

80%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $424k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • KC
    Kalamazoo Civic Theatre
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +13%
  • UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $580k · revenue +111%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $527k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • SENIOR SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +41%
  • CO
    CITY OF PORTAGE
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • AB
    ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +51%
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
Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence

The mission of the kalamazoo foundation for excellence is to support the goals of the city of kalamazoo, fund aspirational investments in the city, and empower kalamazoo residents to achieve the lives they want for themselves and their…

Public Benefit
2
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

To promote the arts of book printing, binding, printmaking, papermaking, and creative writing through a community workshop, teaching classes, publishing, and exhibitions

Arts & Culture
3
Kalamazoo Country Day School

An independent school providing a supportive, challenging and creative academic environment for talented and motivated students to prepare them for life long achievement.

Education
4
Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv

It is the mission of Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Services (KNHS), together with residents and community partners, to revitalize neighborhoods and promote comprehensive strategies that foster homeownership.

Housing & Shelter
5
Kalamazoo Eastside Neighborhood Association

To improve and enhance the physical, social, and economic environment of the eastside section of the city of kalamazoo, michigan to the ends that the community may have a more pleasant, attractive, safe and convenient place to live and…

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6
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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9
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
10
Kalamazoo Probation Enhancement Program

Probation residential center - alternative correctional facility and outpatient treatment facility

Crime & Legal
11
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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12
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Kalamazoo Housing Advocates. 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

73 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. 73 of the 94 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
46/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kalamazoo Civic Theatre: $1,710,000 · OtherKalamazoo Civic TheatreCHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $850,000 · OtherCHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTERMILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES: $600,000 · OtherMILESTONE SENIOR SERVICESYMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $600,000 · OtherYMCA OF GREATER KALAMAZOOYWCA KALAMAZOO: $460,000 · OtherYWCA KALAMAZOO+50 more: $3,492,918 · Other+50 moreHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $425,000 · Human ServicesHERITAGE COMMU…LIFT FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Human ServicesLIFT FOUNDATIO…Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $350,000 · Human ServicesSherman Lake Y…YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $255,000 · Human ServicesYWCA WEST CENT…ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesECUMENICAL SEN…FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILD…+2 more: $45,000 · Human ServicesROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $410,000 · Arts & CultureROOTEAD E…KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $240,000 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO…ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $205,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUN…IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD: $75,000 · Arts & CultureIRVING S …PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK: $65,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC ME…Kalamazoo Institute of Arts: $55,000 · Arts & CultureFARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $42,000 · Arts & CultureWellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $50,500 · Arts & CultureTen Strands: $350,000 · EnvironmentECOFLIGHT: $260,000 · EnvironmentKalamazoo Nature Center: $255,000 · EnvironmentFOR LOVE OF WATER: $110,000 · Environment+1 more: $25,000 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC: $527,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN: $178,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS BUILD KALAMAZOO INC: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentBronson Health Foundation: $347,750 · HealthPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $125,000 · HealthDOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $105,100 · HealthFamily Health Center Inc: $50,000 · HealthWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER: $45,500 · HealthPREVENTION WORKS INC: $30,000 · Health+2 more: $30,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $580,000 · PhilanthropyKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Philanthropy
Other$7,712,918Human Services$1,835,000Arts & Culture$1,182,500Environment$1,000,000Youth Development$835,000Health$733,350Philanthropy$730,000

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 budgetKalamazoo Civic Theatre: $1,710,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetCHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $850,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $580,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC: $527,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO: $425,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $410,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetLIFT FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 82% of budgetSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $350,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTen Strands: $350,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetBronson Health Foundation: $347,750 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetECOFLIGHT: $260,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $255,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetYWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $255,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC: $250,000 over 3y, 70% of budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $240,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $205,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetHISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC: $200,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetMRC Industries Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN: $178,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBlack Arts & Cultural Center: $160,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION: $140,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $114,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOR LOVE OF WATER: $110,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetDOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $105,100 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM: $95,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVIBRANT KALAMAZOO: $80,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD: $75,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC: $75,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetGIRLS BUILD KALAMAZOO INC: $70,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO: $65,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK: $65,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGirls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo: $60,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $60,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts: $55,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Health Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAN-DO KALAMAZOO: $50,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER: $45,500 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 Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
  • Who funds CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LIFT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
  • Who funds Ten Strands ↗
  • Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ECOFLIGHT ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
  • Who funds YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds MRC Industries Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Black Arts & Cultural Center ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOR LOVE OF WATER ↗
  • Who funds DOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Dorothy U Dalton Foundation IncMI126.2× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · Enna Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr 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 Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish 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 94 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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