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Tee It Up for the Troops Inc

Tee it up for the troops is a non profit organization created to help support the men and women of the us military and their families, with an emphasis given to the fallen and disabled members of our armed forces.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$223k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$2.4MRecreation & Sports$1.1MPublic Benefit$347kArts & Culture$336kHousing & Shelter$214kReligion$160kHealth$129kPhilanthropy$91kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $660,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,719,724 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,059,724 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $423k
$35,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FISHER HOUSE$222,500
MOVE UNITED$140,000
SALUTE MILITARY GOLF ASSOCIATION INC$60,000
THE WARRIORS JOURNEY$45,000
MEDAL OF HONOR FOUNDATION INC$40,000
CREATIVETS$35,000
WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION$30,000
BLUE STAR FAMILIES$25,000
PURPLE HEART HOMES$20,000
PROJECT SANCTUARY$20,000
COMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS$15,000
VETERANS HERITAGE PROJECT$7,500
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 (FY17–24, $721k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS: $5k → 11%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $77k → 11%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%SHEEP DOG IMPACT ASSISTANCE: $10k → 8%COMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS: $20k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $21k → 11%GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $10k → 16%PHOENIX COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $9k → 14%CODE OF SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%BELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS: $5k → 11%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $60k → 11%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM: $10k → 14%COMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS: $20k → 10%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $15k → 11%GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $5k → 16%SOUTHSIDE OFFICE OF CONCERN: $7k → 14%BELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS: $5k → 11%ARMED SERVICES YMCA CAMP PENDELTON: $22k → 11%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM: $8k → 14%COMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS: $15k → 10%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SOUTHSIDE OFFICE OF CONCERN VETERANS HOME: $6k → 14%ORG FOR FAMILIES OF ACTIVE MILITARY: $18k → 10%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $53k → 11%COMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS: $15k → 10%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%ORG FOR FAMILIES OF ACTIVE MILITARY: $14k → 10%ARMED SERVICES YMCA CAMP PENDELTON: $17k → 11%COMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS: $15k → 10%FURNISHING HOPE: $12k → 10%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $20k → 11%COMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS: $14k → 10%FURNISHING HOPE: $9k → 10%ARMED SERVICES YMCA CAMP PENDELTON: $15k → 11%COMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS: $8k → 10%STAND UP AND PLAY FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $35k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $30k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $30k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $25k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $15k → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
SD
IN
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
OK
TX
FL

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 59 repeat orgs$480k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
40

Total granted

$4.7M
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+45%

Still filing today

85%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Public BenefitHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $958k · revenue +32%
  • MU
    MOVE UNITED
    7× · 2017–2024 · $756k · revenue +106%
  • WF
    WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $209k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TF
    TROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $99k · revenue -30%
  • AB
    ARS BELLUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • BT
    Beyond The Burn Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue -45%

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
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
2
Hookin Veterans
Public Benefit
3
Warfighter Outfitters

Warfighter Outfitters believe in the healing power of the outdoors. Since 2014, we have provided free fishing, hunting, and engagement trips to disabled veterans. On the water or in the woods, these veteran-only trips help service men and…

4
Support Our Soldiers

Provide financial support for veterans.

Human Services
5
Wounded War Heroes

Wounded War Heroes was founded to show our appreciation to the men and women who have been wounded or injured as a result of serving our country, by providing them therapeutic outdoor experiences upon their return home from fighting for…

Public Benefit
6
American Soldier

To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.

Human Services
7
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
8
Healing Paws for Warriors Inc

Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…

Human Services
9
Special Operators Transition Foundation Inc

The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.

Public Benefit
10
Wounded Heroes of America a Non-Profit Corporation

To provide support to our combat wounded veterans from iraq and afghanistan. we assist them financially for a specified period and if necessary, assist them on legal and financial matters, benefits, housing, and educational needs. we…

Philanthropy
11
Soldiers of America
Human Services
12
A Soldier's Journey Home

The mission is to build homes for soldiers injured during the line of duty.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Illinois Valley Fuller Center for Housing. 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 backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterChristian Missionary Organi…Military Veterans SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Ymca Youth DevelopmentChristian Youth CampsCommunity College Foundatio…Affordable Housing Construc…Community Foundations
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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%58%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%43%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/99
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,466

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

84 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. 84 of the 99 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/84
Grantees still filing
61/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $958,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCVFW DEPT OF MN 210 LAKEVILLE POST VFW — $75,500 · OtherMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $89,031 · OtherK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $71,500 · Other+39 more — $669,174 · Other+39 moreMOVE UNITED — $756,000 · Recreation & SportsMOVE UNITEDSalute to Military Golf Association Inc — $199,500 · Recreation & SportsSalute to Military Golf…WESTERN NEW YORK SECTION PGA FOUNDATION — $48,312 · Recreation & SportsHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $38,182 · Recreation & Sports+4 more — $47,945 · Recreation & SportsBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $116,500 · Public BenefitBLUE STAR FAMILIES…A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary — $112,000 · Public BenefitA Sanctuary for Mi…TROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $98,971 · Public BenefitTROOPS FIRST FOUND…PURPLE HEART HOMES INC — $97,500 · Public BenefitPURPLE HEART HOMES…FISHER HOUSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $90,000 · Public BenefitFISHER HOUSE SOUTH…ON COURSE FOUNDATION USA — $81,500 · Public BenefitON COURSE FOUNDATI…ARMED FORCES SERVICES CENTER — $48,050 · Public BenefitARMED FORCES SERVI…MARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Public BenefitMARINE RAIDER FOUN…ADOPT A SOLDIER DOOR COUNTY — $43,000 · Public Benefit+10 more — $98,682 · Public Benefit+10 moreWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION — $208,939 · Human ServicesWARRIOR FOUNDAT…WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC — $135,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR CANINE …COMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS INC — $106,825 · Human ServicesCOMBAT VETERANS…ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA — $52,939 · Human ServicesARMED SERVICES …WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC — $45,850 · Human ServicesWOUNDED VETERAN…FOR FAMILIES OF ACTIVE MILITARY INC BLEHM — $31,975 · Human Services+10 more — $139,600 · Human Services+10 moreCREATIVETS — $172,000 · Arts & CultureMedal Of Honor Foundation Inc — $90,000 · Arts & CultureIMPRINTS OF HONOR — $25,000 · Arts & CultureHONOR FLIGHT TWIN CITIES — $23,100 · Arts & CultureMARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureNETWORK 211 INC — $160,016 · ReligionHope For The Warriors — $62,000 · PhilanthropyMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $49,000 · PhilanthropyBeyond The Burn Foundation — $23,050 · PhilanthropyTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND — $10,000 · PhilanthropySOUTH FLORIDA PROFESSIONAL GOLF ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Legion Charities Inc — $5,700 · Philanthropy
Other$1,863,205Recreation & Sports$1,089,939Public Benefit$831,203Human Services$721,128Arts & Culture$330,100Religion$160,016Philanthropy$155,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $958,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMOVE UNITED — $756,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION — $208,939 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSalute to Military Golf Association Inc — $199,500 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetCREATIVETS — $172,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetNETWORK 211 INC — $160,016 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC — $135,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $116,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary — $112,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCOMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS INC — $106,825 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $98,971 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPURPLE HEART HOMES INC — $97,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMedal Of Honor Foundation Inc — $90,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFISHER HOUSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $90,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $89,031 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetON COURSE FOUNDATION USA — $81,500 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetVFW DEPT OF MN 210 LAKEVILLE POST VFW — $75,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $71,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHope For The Warriors — $62,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SURF — $56,600 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA — $52,939 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $49,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK SECTION PGA FOUNDATION — $48,312 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $48,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARMED FORCES SERVICES CENTER — $48,050 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC — $45,850 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetADOPT A SOLDIER DOOR COUNTY — $43,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $38,182 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIllinois Valley Fuller Center for Housing — $32,600 over 4y, 50% of budgetFOR FAMILIES OF ACTIVE MILITARY INC BLEHM — $31,975 over 2y, 11% of budgetUSO - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA INC DBA BOB HOPE USO — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Texas Warrior Golf Assoc — $27,602 over 3y, 13% of budgetIMPRINTS OF HONOR — $25,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT TWIN CITIES — $23,100 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetBeyond The Burn Foundation — $23,050 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBUNKERS IN BAGHDAD — $22,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSouth Side Office of Concern — $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFURNISHING HOPE INC — $21,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation — $20,588 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC — $19,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $18,177 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA WARRIORS ICE HOCKEY — $18,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDefenders of Freedom — $17,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWarrior Built Foundation Inc — $16,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetIRONWOOD SPRINGS CHRISTIAN RANCH INC — $16,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSTAND UP AND PLAY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 2.7% 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.

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.

Veterans United FoundationMO22.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Gary Sinise Foundation · Fisher House Foundation Inc · Disabled Veterans National Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · American Express Foundation · The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation · Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust

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 Tee It Up for the Troops Inc 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 · 80%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Vantage Health System Inc19% of income from government
  • Move United16% of income from government
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc5% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
8report 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, 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.

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How do I get to Tee It Up for the Troops Inc?

Find your warmest path to Tee It Up for the Troops Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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