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The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
121
Grants FY2024
103
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$14,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$320,928
Organizations funded a year
103 to 176
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$44M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving119$4.1M13%
FY2023103$2.1M8%
FY2022107$2.3M7%
FY2021105$2.4M9%
FY2020117$1.8M20%
FY2019176$1.4M30%
FY2018158$1.2M35%
FY2017140$1.2Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.5MHuman Services$2.3MArts & Culture$2.1MYouth Development$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.5MEnvironment$1.2MHealth$1.1MFood & Nutrition$1.0MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County$1,105,320810%
United Way of Thurston County$621,543554%
Mason County Housing Options for Students in Transition$515,932550%
Thurston County Food Bank$462,02281%
University of Washington$411,0268n/a
Senior Services for South Sound$350,53782%
Western Washington University$304,6558n/a
Capitol Land Trust$289,82673%
Olympia Symphony Orchestra$274,628810%
Saint Martin's University$236,97480%
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All grantees of The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County$1,105,320810%
United Way of Thurston County$621,543554%
Mason County Housing Options for Students in Transition$515,932550%
Thurston County Food Bank$462,02281%
University of Washington$411,0268n/a
Senior Services for South Sound$350,53782%
Western Washington University$304,6558n/a
Capitol Land Trust$289,82673%
Olympia Symphony Orchestra$274,628810%
Saint Martin's University$236,97480%
Nisqually Land Trust$221,90382%
Together$216,16483%
Safeplace$198,51582%
South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity$193,02552%
Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia$190,884810%
The Olympia Free Clinic$189,646815%
North Thurston Education Foundation$184,474810%
Providence Southwest Washington Foundation$174,98381%
Union Gospel Mission Association of Olympia$174,24272%
The Griffin School Foundation$171,73425%
Sidewalk$170,460612%
Concern for Animals$170,007718%
Hands on Children's Museum$166,12781%
South Sound Estuary Association$162,868714%
Family Education & Support Services$160,58782%
Community Youth Services$160,51580%
Interfaith Works$157,11681%
United Way of Lewis County$155,088416%
Harlequin Productions Inc$149,97184%
Homes First$143,28782%
Great Bend Center for Music$140,672710%
Kitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty$132,06182%
South Sound Reading Foundation$131,06679%
Mayday Foundation$130,147624%
Wild Grief$124,804741%
The Washington Center for the Performing Arts$124,57472%
Olympia Ecosystems$122,56968%
South Puget Sound Community College Foundation$121,92182%
Dispute Resolution Center$119,74086%
The Family Support Center of South Sound$118,36281%
Pope John Paul II High School$117,20970%
Rochester Organization of Families$113,19873%
Cielo Project at Radio Ranch$112,06263%
Chaplains on the Harbor$111,50054%
South Sound Young Men's Christian Assn$106,53351%
Child Care Action Council of Thurston County$106,48781%
Olympia Film Society$106,46465%
The Chehalis Foundation$105,35081%
Thurston Economic Development Council Center for Business Innovation$104,88583%
Westport South Beach Historical Society$104,000519%
The Bridge Music Project$102,991825%
Parks Arts Recreation and Cultural Foundation of Thurston County$97,636831%
Rebuilding Together Thurston County$95,118510%
Rural Development Initiatives Inc$93,7503n/a
Heartstrides Therapeutic Riding$92,708423%
Olympia Education Foundation$89,060518%
Homeless Backpacks Inc$88,64988%
Boys & Girls Club of Lewis County$87,65983%
Shelton Family Center$87,28654%
The JOLT News Organization$86,422225%
Sound Learning$86,38985%
Parent To Parent Support Program Of Thurston County$83,09871%
Olympia Kiwanis Foundation$82,915579%
Kokua$81,86570%
Thurston Climate Action Team$79,741619%
Pacific Shellfish Institute$79,47273%
Community Lifeline of Mason County$76,367610%
YWCA of Olympia$75,40468%
Arbutus Folk School$75,269810%
Turning Pointe Survivor Advocacy Center$73,54262%
South Beach Christian Outreach$70,000330%
Fire Mountain Arts Council$69,153613%
Pizza Klatch$69,01647%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington$67,73650%
Panza$64,61863%
Pacific Education Institute$64,29762%
Tenino Community Service Center$63,14367%
Olympia Arts & Heritage Alliance$61,7604n/a
Scholarship America Inc$61,5057n/a
Mason Health Foundation$60,33352%
Nisqually Reach Nature Center$60,000136%
Window Seat Media$58,947426%
South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group$57,00051%
Washington School Principals Education Foundation$55,85730%
South of the Sound Community Farm Land Trust$55,857510%
Central Washington University Foundation$55,81751%
Thurston Community Television$55,564612%
Lewis County Autism Coalition$54,588812%
Eastern Washington University$54,1677n/a
The Saint's Pantry Food Bank$52,90463%
Olympia Community Solar$51,899515%
Northwest Youth Corps$50,00010%
Faith in Action$49,38152%
A Gift For Special Children$48,663767%
Cheh River Basin Land Trust$46,975825%
Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative$46,94233%
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America$46,6551n/a
Thurston County School Retirees Association$46,0006n/a
Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group$45,67460%
Health and Hope Medical Outreach$44,543614%
Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties$44,47430%
Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound$43,80050%
City of Westport$43,0002n/a
Washington State University$41,8505n/a
Wolf Haven International$40,96212%
Northwest Kidney Centers$40,00040%
Scholar Fund$40,00020%
Sound Legal Aid$39,92664%
Olympia Family Theater$39,30429%
Stonewall Youth$39,1023n/a
Ballet Northwest$38,45763%
Crisis Clinic of Thurston & Mason Counties$37,69556%
Panorama$37,50040%
Moore Wright Group$36,78220%
Thurston County Chamber Foundation$36,76753%
Indigenous Performance Productions$36,454221%
Ashho Cultural and Job Training Center$36,32139%
Emerald City Music$36,09262%
North Mason Resources$35,29646%
Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council$35,00010%
Build a Bus Home$35,0002n/a
Ocosta Recreation Center Inc$34,9561n/a
Pierce County Aids Foundation$34,46440%
Partnership for Philanthropic Planning South Sound Planned Giving Council$34,250621%
Northwest Cooperative Development Center$33,28341%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Washington$33,24952%
Washington Public Affairs Network$33,04550%
Partners in Prevention Education$32,73731%
Thurston County Inclusion$32,625234%
Bounty for Families$32,052321%
Covenant Creatures - Companion Animal Program$30,000141%
Orca Network$30,00012%
Hispanic Roundtable$29,5154n/a
The Mockingbird Society$28,56250%
Love Covers$27,3663n/a
Nature Nurture Farmacy$27,000123%
Habitat for Humanity of Mason County$26,25622%
Whitworth University$26,10050%
Washington First Robotics$25,73131%
North Mason Firefighters Association$25,0001n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$25,00040%
South Beach Softball Club$25,0001n/a
Wild Orca$25,00016%
Humane Society of Mason County$23,76535%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US Dept of WA 3057 Gen James H Doolittle S Beach$23,216138%
Mercy Housing Northwest$22,20040%
Morningside$21,18740%
Roots Sports Academy$21,02430%
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service$20,00020%
Seattle University$20,00050%
Hawk Foundation for Research & Education in African Culture$20,000113%
Tenino Young-At-Heart Theatre$19,819314%
Best Dental Help$19,49422%
Historic Fox Theatre Restorations$19,18524%
Pacific Lutheran University$19,00050%
Crossroads Housing$18,50031%
United States Catholic Conference$18,5002n/a
Harmony Hill of Union$18,41031%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)$18,23420%
Nisqually River Foundation$18,08231%
The Nova School Association$17,76721%
Nami Thurston Mason$17,09847%
Nurture Hope$16,822211%
West Olympia Rotary Charities Fund$16,800411%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$16,06120%
Washington Asset Building Coalition$15,301218%
North Mason Food Bank$15,03521%
Ocosta School District$15,0001n/a
Hood Canal Food Bank$15,00034%
Conservation Connection Inc$15,0001n/a
Olympia Historical Society$14,836216%
Earthbound Productions$14,5453n/a
Reliable Enterprises$13,40030%
Olympia Tumwater Foundation$13,34951%
WASHINGTON STATE 4-H Fair Board Inc$13,00019%
Reach Out and Read Inc$13,00020%
Enterprise for Equity$12,95832%
Nonprofit Association of Washington$12,90021%
Community Resilience Initiative$12,40013%
Angels For Angels$11,43320%
Hood Canal Enhancement Group$11,0111n/a
Matlock Community Church$11,0001n/a
Nonprofit Leaders Conference for Coastal & Sw Washington$11,0003n/a
Turning Point Shelter Association$10,2001n/a
Housing Resource Center of Lewis County$10,07511%
Lewis County Gospel Mission$10,00012%
Pos Port of Support & Pathwayz to Success$10,00018%
Acu Foundation$10,000111%
South Puget Sound Community College Found$10,0002n/a
Coastal Harvest$10,00020%
Society of St Vincent Depaul Central Cascades District Council$10,0002n/a
Cascade Community Healthcare$10,00010%
South Sound Planned Giving$10,0001n/a
Northwest Agriculture Business Center$9,50011%
Nature Nurtures Farm$9,01121%
Hands-On Personal Empowerment$8,83518%
Scholarship America Inc$8,80010%
Eagles Nest Community Kitchen$8,70415%
United Way of Mason County$8,50025%
Ecostudies Institute$7,93410%
New Horizons Ministries$7,69410%
Yelm Community Services$7,50010%
Girl Scouts of Western Washington$7,50030%
Community Cafe Collaborative$7,5001n/a
Thurston Housing Land Trust$7,50028%
Lewis County Food Bank Coalition$7,50012%
Senior Center of Rainier$7,5001n/a
Cielo Foundation Inc$7,5001n/a
Washington State University$6,6771n/a
Chehalis Tribal Loan Fund$6,66321%
Woodland Trail Greenway Association$6,3502n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound$6,34010%
Capital City Chorus of Olympia$6,3151n/a
St Thomas Episcopal Church$6,2461n/a
Seattle Children's Foundation$6,24610%
Ithaca College$6,00030%
Outdoors For Our Heroes$6,00022%
Georgetown University$5,60030%
Washington State Senior Games$5,5003n/a
Collaborative Association For Reintegration and Education$5,4371n/a
Grand Canyon University$5,1002n/a
The General Council of the Assemblies of God$5,0001n/a
Step - Sharing Teens and Elders Project$5,0001n/a
Timber River Connections$5,00011%
National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc$5,00010%
Pacific Public Media$5,00010%
Shelton Skookum Rotary Club Foundation$5,00013%
Long Live the Kings$5,00010%
The Groundtruth Project Inc$5,00010%
The American Himalayan Foundation$5,0001n/a
Ocosta Cares$5,0001n/a
Washington Wild$5,00011%
Panhandle 4-H Association Inc$4,6161n/a
Lott Alliance$4,1703n/a
Claflin University$4,00020%
Lindenwood Education System$4,00010%
The University of Puget Sound$4,00020%
First Baptist Church of Olympia$4,0001n/a
The University of British Columbia$3,6002n/a
Centralia Downtown Association$3,50012%
Olympia Artspace Alliance$3,5001n/a
Baylor University$3,50020%
Bastyr University$3,50010%
Olympia Foursquare Church$3,2002n/a
Boistfort Fireman's Association$3,0001n/a
Boistfort PTO$3,0001n/a
Pierce College Foundation$3,00010%
Olympic College$3,0002n/a
Lewis County Sheriffs Office Association$3,0001n/a
Seattle Pacific University$3,00010%
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky$2,50010%
Corporation of Gonzaga University$2,50020%
Winlock-Vader Food Bank$2,50012%
Sunrise Equine Rescue$2,50017%
Center for Natural Lands Management$2,50010%
North Thurston Kiwanis Foundation$2,5001n/a
Making a Difference Foundation$2,24610%
Duke University$2,10010%
Black Hills Audubon Society$2,1001n/a
Southern Adventist University$2,0002n/a
Olympic Trials Legacy Committee$2,0001n/a
Western Michigan University$2,0001n/a
Willamette University$2,00010%
Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences$2,0001n/a
Highline College$2,0002n/a
Olympia School District$2,0001n/a
Yelm Prairie P T a Thurston County 4-4-38$2,0001n/a
Black Hills High School Booster Club$2,0001n/a
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$2,00010%
Montana State University$2,0001n/a
Climate Solutions$1,94210%
Sustainable South Sound$1,9421n/a
Mpowerment Washington$1,8002n/a
Pope's Kids Place$1,57530%
North Mason Friends of the Library$1,5491n/a
Career Path Services Employment and Training$1,50010%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$1,50030%
Olympic College Foundation$1,47710%
The Evergreen State College Foundation$1,13710%
Regents of the University of Michigan$1,1001n/a
Oregon State University$1,1001n/a
Olympia Peace Choir$1,0341n/a
South Sound Partners for Philanthropy$1,0001n/a
Olympia High School Foundation$1,0001n/a
Bowdoin College$1,00010%
Green River College$1,0001n/a
Chapman University$1,00010%
Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc$1,00010%
Wood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc$1,00010%
Camp Victory$1,00010%
Hope Alliance Public Benefit Non-Profit Corporation$1,00010%
Disabled American Veterans$1,0001n/a
McKenny Parent Teacher Association$1,00015%
Master Gardener Foundation of Thurston County$1,0001n/a
Westmont College$1,00010%
Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice$1,0001n/a
Case Western Reserve University$1,00010%
Northwest Ecobuilding Guild$75010%
The University of Montana Foundation$75010%
George Fox University$75010%
University of Arizona$5001n/a
Tumwater School District No33$5001n/a
Washington Department of Social and Health Services$5001n/a
Regents of the University of Idaho$5001n/a
Lewis County Hfh Greater (Wa)$3371n/a
Blaine County Recreation District$2501n/a
Hospice and Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley Inc$25010%
Wood River Community Orchestra Inc$2501n/a
Foundation for Private Enterprise$14110%
Centralia College Foundation$2710%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County: $1,105,320 over 8y, 10% of budgetUnited Way of Thurston County: $621,543 over 5y, 54% of budgetMason County Housing Options for Students in Transition: $515,932 over 5y, 50% of budgetThurston County Food Bank: $462,022 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSenior Services for South Sound: $350,537 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCapitol Land Trust: $289,826 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetOlympia Symphony Orchestra: $274,628 over 8y, 10% of budgetSaint Martin's University: $236,974 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNisqually Land Trust: $221,903 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTogether: $216,164 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetSafeplace: $198,515 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetSouth Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity: $193,025 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetStudent Orchestras of Greater Olympia: $190,884 over 8y, 10% of budgetThe Olympia Free Clinic: $189,646 over 8y, 15% of budgetNorth Thurston Education Foundation: $184,474 over 8y, 10% of budgetProvidence Southwest Washington Foundation: $174,983 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission Association of Olympia: $174,242 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetThe Griffin School Foundation: $171,734 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSidewalk: $170,460 over 6y, 12% of budgetConcern for Animals: $170,007 over 7y, 18% of budgetHands on Children's Museum: $166,127 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSouth Sound Estuary Association: $162,868 over 7y, 14% of budgetFamily Education & Support Services: $160,587 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCommunity Youth Services: $160,515 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetInterfaith Works: $157,116 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Way of Lewis County: $155,088 over 4y, 16% of budgetHarlequin Productions Inc: $149,971 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetHomes First: $143,287 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetGreat Bend Center for Music: $140,672 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetKitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty: $132,061 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetSouth Sound Reading Foundation: $131,066 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetMayday Foundation: $130,147 over 6y, 24% of budgetWild Grief: $124,804 over 7y, 41% of budgetThe Washington Center for the Performing Arts: $124,574 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetOlympia Ecosystems: $122,569 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetSouth Puget Sound Community College Foundation: $121,921 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetDispute Resolution Center: $119,740 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetThe Family Support Center of South Sound: $118,362 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetPope John Paul II High School: $117,209 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetRochester Organization of Families: $113,198 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetCielo Project at Radio Ranch: $112,062 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetChaplains on the Harbor: $111,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSouth Sound Young Men's Christian Assn: $106,533 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetChild Care Action Council of Thurston County: $106,487 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetOlympia Film Society: $106,464 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetThe Chehalis Foundation: $105,350 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThurston Economic Development Council Center for Business Innovation: $104,885 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetWestport South Beach Historical Society: $104,000 over 5y, 19% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Dawkins Charitable TrustWA137.4× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dawkins Charitable Trust · Thurston County Economic Development Cou · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of Thurston County · Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council · School's Out Washington · Renah Blair Rietzke Family Foundation · Inatai Foundation · The Finninsula Foundation Inc Co Ted Sandler · Grays Harbor Community 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.

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About The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

How much does The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound give?
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound reported 121 grants totaling $4,145,680 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 103 and 176 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (15%), Human Services (14%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County ($1.1M), United Way of Thurston County ($622k), Mason County Housing Options for Students in Transition ($516k).
Does The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dawkins Charitable Trust, Thurston County Economic Development Cou, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
Where is The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound based?
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound is based in WA.

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 316 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 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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