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The Abington Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
73
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.5MArts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$1.1MYouth Development$780kHealth$646kCommunity Improvement$410kCrime & Legal$297kAnimals$250kOther$0
02FY2025 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k69 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN$200,000
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$125,000
MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE$50,000
FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE$45,000
SEEDS OF LITERACY$30,000
SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES$30,000
FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO$30,000
STELLA MARIS INC$30,000
CLEVELAND CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$27,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$25,000
SMART DEVELOPMENT INC$25,000
THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$25,000
AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND$25,000
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS$25,000
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $25k → 17%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $20k → 17%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $20k → 17%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $10k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10k → 17%WINGSPAN CARE GROUP: $40k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $12k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $70k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $20k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $20k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $15k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $200k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $200k → 17%ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $40k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $25k → 17%ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $25k → 17%PASSAGES CONNECTING FATHERS AND SONS INC: $17k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $15k → 17%PASSAGES CONNECTING FATHERS AND SONS INC: $15k → 17%PASSAGES CONNECTING FATHERS AND SONS INC: $15k → 17%PASSAGES CONNECTING FATHERS AND SONS INC: $15k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $15k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $12k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $150k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $15k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $15k → 17%RESOURCE CLEVELAND: $25k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $30k → 17%RESOURCE CLEVELAND: $20k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $20k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 17%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $30k → 17%RESOURCE CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $10k → 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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 90 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

90 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
33

Total granted

$9.0M
$983k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+27%

Still filing today

86%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $294k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth 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

  • UC
    URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +140%
  • LC
    LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +32%
  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • CZ
    CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • AI
    AFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS USA
    one grant, 2020 · $61k
  • CC
    Cleveland Christian Home Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +198%
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
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
2
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
3
Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology

Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. we will fight inherently inequitable systems.…

Arts & Culture
4
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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5
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
6
Community Learning Center Institute

Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.

Education
7
Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education
8
Neighborhood Progress Inc

Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…

Community Improvement
9
The Cleveland Music School Settlement

To welcome all to our music and arts community to learn, create, celebrate and heal.

Arts & Culture
10
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
11
Cleveland Freedom Project

Youth-led Cultivators

Youth Development
12
Central Community House

Central community house (cch) is a comprehensive, neighborhood-based community center that has been serving the near east and south side neighborhoods of columbus, ohio since 1936. rather than specifically address one problem or social…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Smart Development Inc. 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

115 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. 115 of the 140 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/115
Grantees still filing
72/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $460,000 · OtherCLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICTURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $400,000 · OtherURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLPRE4CLE: $210,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC: $155,000 · OtherCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $250,000 · OtherCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYGREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY: $202,500 · OtherSupport Center for Child Advocates: $165,000 · Other+57 more: $2,662,000 · Other+57 moreLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Arts & CultureLAKEVIEW CEMETE…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $215,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEU…The Musical Arts Association: $150,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Art…Playhouse Square Foundation: $85,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Squar…THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $85,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND P…CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY: $85,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND FILM …DEVELOPING CONNECTIONS NORTHEAST OHIO: $76,000 · Arts & CultureDEVELOPING CONN…NEAR WEST THEATRE INC: $62,000 · Arts & CultureARTS IMPACT INC: $60,500 · Arts & CultureROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $218,500 · Arts & Culture+7 moreSAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC: $368,334 · EducationSAY YES CLEVEL…THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $160,000 · EducationTHE CITY CLUB …SCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC: $130,000 · EducationSCRANTON ROAD …Saint Martin de Porres High School: $120,000 · EducationSaint Martin d…THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $110,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY C…COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $75,000 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GR…CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY: $45,000 · EducationEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $45,000 · EducationBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $45,000 · EducationCLEVELAND MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT TRANSFORMATION: $45,000 · Education+9 more: $199,308 · Education+9 moreThe Centers for Families and Children: $467,000 · Human ServicesThe Centers fo…UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $235,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY SET…Near Westside MultiService Corp: $135,000 · Human ServicesNear Westside …FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $105,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECT…SEEDS OF LITERACY: $105,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF LITER…ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $65,000 · Human ServicesPassages Connecting Fathers & Sons: $62,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CLEVELAND: $55,000 · Human Services+4 more: $102,000 · Human Services+4 morePOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM: $201,666 · HealthPOSITIVE …NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC: $106,325 · HealthNEIGHBORH…MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION: $95,000 · HealthMENTAL HE…THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · HealthTHE METRO…Beech Brook: $70,000 · HealthBeech Bro…LIFEACT: $62,500 · HealthLIFEACTSTELLA MARIS INC: $55,000 · HealthSTELLA MA…MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC: $50,000 · HealthMAGNOLIA …CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $40,000 · Health+4 more: $85,000 · Health+4 moreFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $160,000 · Community ImprovementSpanish American Committee: $130,000 · Community ImprovementSMART DEVELOPMENT INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $45,000 · Community ImprovementVILLAGE OF HEALING: $35,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $25,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementOPEN DOORS INC: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $71,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOOTPATH FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentWRITERS IN RESIDENCE: $28,000 · Youth DevelopmentREFRESH COLLECTIVE: $15,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,504,500Arts & Culture$1,387,000Education$1,342,642Human Services$1,331,000Health$840,491Community Improvement$555,000Youth Development$374,000

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 budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $467,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $400,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC: $368,334 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $235,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $215,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY: $202,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM: $201,666 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $165,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $160,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $160,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $135,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND: $135,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetSCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC: $130,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetSpanish American Committee: $130,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $120,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $120,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS: $115,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $110,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC: $106,325 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $105,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY: $105,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $105,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $103,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMART DEVELOPMENT INC: $100,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $97,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCHN HOUSING PARTNERS: $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION: $95,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $85,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY: $85,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $82,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDEVELOPING CONNECTIONS NORTHEAST OHIO: $76,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $71,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetBeech Brook: $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $65,000 over 2y, 27% 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.

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…The George Gund Found…The Char and Chuck Fo…Thomas H White Fdn TaThe Reinberger Founda…Higley Fund of the Cl…Third Federal Foundat…Martha Holden Jenning…United Way of Greater…The Nord Family Found…Murphy Family Foundat…Treu Mart Fund
The Cleveland FoundationOH119.3× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · The Reinberger Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Nord Family Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Treu Mart Fund

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 The Abington Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Abington Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 140 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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