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The Bgr Foundation Inc

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.

$333k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$432kEducation$371kInternational$246kArts & Culture$245kScience & Tech$200kPublic Benefit$188kYouth Development$113kHuman Services$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$50,000
CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN SECURITY$30,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$26,500
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$25,000
ATTORNEY GENERAL ALLIANCE$20,000
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY$15,000
MARCH OF DIMES INC$15,000
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL$12,000
DON BOSCO CRISTO REY WORK STUDY$11,333
THE FUND OF AMERICAN STUDIES$10,000
CENTER FOR US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP$10,000
JDRF$10,000
BLACK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$7,500
DAVID A WINSTON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP$7,500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL$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 (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FARMLINK PROJECT: $3k → 14%THE WORLD ORPHAN FUND: $3k → 8%CAPITAL CARING: $500 → 6%NGS INVITATIONAL: $5k → 9%HOSTAGE US INC: $500 → 6%COMFORT CASES: $4k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
SD
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OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
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KY
VA
MD
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NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 53 repeat orgs$530k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
102

Total granted

$1.5M
$452k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+18%

Still filing today

79%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
HealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

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

  • TF
    TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $130k · revenue +288%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +57%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    6× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • The Rand Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +34%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -69%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +19%

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.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
4
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
9
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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10
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
11
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
12
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cohen Veterans Network Inc. 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 backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsLocal History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsMilitary Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Jewish Community Organizati…Christian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Cancer Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsPregnancy Support Services
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%41%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/114
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,451

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

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 178 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
67/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL — $90,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - NATIONAL CA…FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherThe Bryce Harlow Foundation — $25,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON — $24,000 · OtherAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC — $24,000 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY — $25,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $26,500 · Other+103 more — $450,958 · Other+103 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $300,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of H…UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $130,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI …Conference of Western Attorneys General AG Alliance — $60,000 · EducationConference of Western Atto…INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Education+9 more — $29,150 · Education+9 moreMARCH OF DIMES INC — $130,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $82,750 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $37,500 · HealthNational Kidney Fou…FOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC — $35,000 · HealthFOUNDATION TO ERADI…Friends of Cancer Research — $35,000 · HealthFriends of Cancer R…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · HealthDAVID A WINSTON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP — $13,500 · Health+16 more — $34,000 · Health+16 moreCenter for a New American Security Inc — $85,000 · InternationalCenter for…MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER — $50,000 · InternationalMERIDIAN I…PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $20,000 · InternationalPLAN INTER…UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · InternationalUNITED NAT…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $11,500 · InternationalGLOBAL CHILD NUTRITION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · InternationalTHE KOREA SOCIETY — $10,000 · International+4 more — $15,750 · International+4 moreTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL — $130,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $8,500 · Arts & CulturePOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION — $35,000 · PhilanthropyTASTE OF THE SOUTH — $35,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SOCIAL GIVING NETWORK — $24,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 · PhilanthropyNEW HORIZON MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyESA'S FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $5,500 · PhilanthropyCenter for US Global Leadership — $44,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $32,000 · Public BenefitThe Rand Corporation — $30,000 · Public BenefitWYOMING CONGRESSIONAL AWARD COUNCIL — $12,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $8,500 · Public BenefitCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$715,458Education$544,150Health$387,750International$222,250Arts & Culture$153,500Philanthropy$141,000Public Benefit$132,000

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $300,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL — $130,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $130,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for a New American Security Inc — $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $82,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetConference of Western Attorneys General AG Alliance — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for US Global Leadership — $44,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research — $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTASTE OF THE SOUTH — $35,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $26,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bryce Harlow Foundation — $25,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SOCIAL GIVING NETWORK — $24,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC — $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Press Foundation Inc — $21,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege to Congress — $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID A WINSTON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP — $13,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWYOMING CONGRESSIONAL AWARD COUNCIL — $12,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL WOMENS INNOVATION NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KOREA SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArlington Food Assistance Center — $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROW — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Pharmaceutical Resear…AARPUnited States Telecom…The Business Roundtab…Ctia - the Wireless A…Edison Electric Insti…Democracy Fund IncAssociation for Acces…The Ayco Charitable F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC26.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · AARP · United States Telecom Association · The Business Roundtable Inc · Ctia - the Wireless Association · Edison Electric Institute Inc · Democracy Fund Inc · Association for Accessible Medicines · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 The Bgr Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Cohen Veterans Network Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Capital Hospice — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Bgr Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Bgr Foundation 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 178 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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