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T & T Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$785k
Granted FY2024still arriving
95
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$150k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.0MHealth$557kAnimals$395kEducation$360kHuman Services$332kArts & Culture$215kYouth Development$199kEnvironment$194kOther$0
02FY2024 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $200k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $435k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE$150,000
WALDEN'S PUDDLE WILDLIFE CENTER OF GREATER NASHVILLE$30,000
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION$20,000
WILLIAMSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD$20,000
ENSWORTH SCHOOL - ANNUAL FUND$20,000
SADDLE UP$20,000
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA$20,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$20,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES$20,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS$20,000
FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE$18,500
MEDICAL MISSIONS FOR CHILDREN$15,000
RUBOS MUSIC SOLUTIONS$15,000
CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY$15,000
UNTOLD CARE FOR AIDS$11,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–24, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE HORSE: $20k → 15%TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 10%TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE HORSE: $10k → 15%TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 10%TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 10%FOUNDATION OF THE HORSE: $10k → 15%TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME: $8k → 10%TUCKER'S HOUSE: $5k → 10%AAEP FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%AAEP FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES: $1k → 4%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $10k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 14%MID CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $10k → 14%MID CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $10k → 14%MID CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $10k → 14%MID CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $10k → 14%MID CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $10k → 14%MID CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $10k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $5k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $4k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $4k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $4k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $4k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $4k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 14%ST LUKES COMMUNITY HOUSE: $3k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 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

VT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
OK
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.
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 20% of T & T Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

T & T Family 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 99 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

99 repeat relationships: 85 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
66

Total granted

$3.0M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+51%

Still filing today

57%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationArts & CultureYouth 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

  • WC
    WILLIAMSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD
    4× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +26%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $92k · revenue +302%
  • SU
    SADDLE UP
    6× · 2019–2024 · $87k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • ES
    ENSWORTH SCHOOL - BUILDING FUNDS
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • NC
    NASHVILLE CHESS CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
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
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health
3
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc

Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
5
Park Center Inc

Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…

Employment
6
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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7
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
8
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
9
Michael Dunn Center

To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence

Human Services
10
Tenngreen Land Conservancy

The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.

Recreation & Sports
11
Nashville Public Media Inc

Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…

Arts & Culture
12
Oasis Center Inc

Oasis center targets undeserved youth, families, schools, and neighborhoods with a mission to help youth grow, thrive and create positive change in their lives and in our community.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Lone Oak Day Camp Inc. 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

103 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. 103 of the 175 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/103
Grantees still filing
88/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WALDEN'S PUDDLE WILDLIFE CENTER OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $137,100 · OtherWALDEN'S PUDDLE WILDLIFE CENTER OF GREATER NASHVILLEWILLIAMSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $115,000 · OtherWILLIAMSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUADSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $108,500 · OtherENSWORTH SCHOOL - ANNUAL FUND: $105,000 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES: $94,000 · OtherRUBOS MUSIC SOLUTIONS: $75,000 · OtherMEDICAL MISSIONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $85,000 · OtherNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $82,000 · Other+114 more: $1,301,200 · Other+114 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE: $730,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABIL…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $180,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF …COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $55,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyTennessee Lions Charities Inc: $36,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropySADDLE UP: $87,000 · HealthUntold Inc: $50,000 · HealthHOPE REINS: $44,300 · HealthCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 · HealthFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $28,000 · HealthINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $26,000 · Health+11 more: $33,000 · HealthMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $60,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $22,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $14,000 · Human ServicesFriends Life Community: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 · Human Services+5 more: $18,000 · Human ServicesDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $51,000 · AnimalsNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $48,000 · AnimalsNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $42,000 · AnimalsSNOOTY GIGGLES DOG RESCUE: $29,500 · AnimalsCaring Hearts for Canines: $23,500 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE ASSOC OF WILSON COUNTY: $14,000 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $12,000 · Animals+3 more: $14,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE: $92,000 · EnvironmentCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC: $27,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $24,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC: $55,000 · Recreation & SportsBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $31,000 · Recreation & SportsAll Nations Soccer Inc: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsDIVERS ALERT NETWORK: $12,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,102,800Philanthropy$1,057,000Health$309,300Human Services$236,500Animals$234,500Environment$143,500Recreation & Sports$119,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE: $730,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $180,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $115,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE: $92,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetSADDLE UP: $87,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMEDICAL MISSIONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $85,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $82,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $58,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC: $55,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $51,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUntold Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $48,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE REINS: $44,300 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetOUR KIDS INC: $43,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $42,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTennessee Lions Charities Inc: $36,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $31,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $31,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $30,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMUSIC CITY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSNOOTY GIGGLES DOG RESCUE: $29,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $24,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCaring Hearts for Canines: $23,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $22,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP MUSIC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAll Nations Soccer Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE CAT RESCUE: $14,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HUMANE ASSOC OF WILSON COUNTY: $14,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBEGIN ANEW: $14,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDIVERS ALERT NETWORK: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
  • Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL MISSIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Untold Inc ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
  • Who funds OUR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Tennessee Lions Charities Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION ↗
  • Who funds WO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC CITY 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.

Hca Healthcare FoundationTN75.9× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Enchiridion 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 T & T Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from T & T Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 175 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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