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The Connecticut Project Inc

The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
76
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$767k
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 FY20222024.

Human Services$3.4MEducation$2.5MCommunity Improvement$2.3MHealth$2.1MHousing & Shelter$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.2MCrime & Legal$975kCivil Rights$885kOther$0
02FY2024 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $506k
  • $50k–250k32 grants · $3.9M
  • $250k+16 grants · $5.9M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$767,000
YALE TRANSITIONS CLINIC$640,000
ALL OUR KIN$600,000
JOBS FOR THE FUTURE$370,000
INFORMCT INC (DBA CONNECTICUT DATA COLLABORATIVE)$350,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES$325,000
A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION$325,000
THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE$320,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN$305,000
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT$300,000
THE CONNECTICUT PROJECT ACTION FUND INC$300,000
CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH$300,000
FAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC$275,000
YALE UNIVERSITY TOBIN CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY$260,000
CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH$250,000
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 (FY23–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MADONNA PLACE: $15k → 9%TEAM INC: $200k → 12%CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT: $15k → 9%SAFE FUTURES: $15k → 9%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 12%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT: $300k → 9%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT: $250k → 9%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT: $200k → 9%BULIDING ONE COMMUNITY: $50k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $15k → 9%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $225k → 12%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $125k → 12%URBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $50k → 12%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of The Connecticut Project Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Connecticut Project Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.6M · 18 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$9.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AB
    A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +23% · 27% of their budget
  • CC
    CTDATA COLLABORATIVE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $909k · revenue +32% · 26% of their budget
  • CN
    CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $800k · revenue +387%

Funded once

  • CL
    CONNCORP LLCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +32%
  • AC
    ADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue -9%
  • SL
    STUDENT LOAN FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $167k · revenue -56% · 55% of their budget

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
Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc

The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.

2
The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc

The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…

Community Improvement
3
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…

4
Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board Inc

EWIB efficiently coordinates employment-related services in concert with a multitude of state and local agencies at benefit to both businesses and job-seekers. These services offer new opportunities and/or skills to the regional workforce,…

Employment
5
The Connecticut Project Inc

The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.

Community Improvement
6
Connecticut Citizen Action Group Inc

We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.

7
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
8
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
9
The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Inc

To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.

Health
10
Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc

Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.

11
Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.

Crime & Legal
12
Connstep Inc

To help connecticut manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques to become more competitive, supporting the growth of connecticut economy.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is Connecticut Health Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%8%<5yr12%9%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr19%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr12%12%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr19%15%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
10%
1,844/18,376

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.

05the grantee network

58 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 61 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
32/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Yale University — $1,866,493 · EducationYale UniversityALL OUR KIN INC — $720,000 · EducationALL OUR KIN INCFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC — $525,000 · EducationFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $226,995 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF…STUDENT LOAN FUND INC — $167,000 · Education+1 more — $56,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC — $800,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND…THE CONNECTICUT PROJECT ACTION FUND INC — $666,500 · OtherTHE CONNECTICUT PROJECT ACTION FUND …YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC — $355,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O…PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES — $670,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIESTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC — $570,000 · OtherTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INCAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC — $300,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUND…JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $370,000 · OtherJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC+20 more — $1,637,500 · Other+20 moreUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC — $360,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $335,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…4-CT CORP — $300,000 · Philanthropy4-CT CORPTHE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $285,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CONNECTIC…THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MODERN CL…CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY — $188,925 · PhilanthropyCONNECTICUT C…UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $185,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…CONNECTICUT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $55,000 · PhilanthropyA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC — $1,413,000 · HealthA BETTER WA…ADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INC — $225,000 · HealthADVANCING C…NEXT LEVEL EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC — $75,000 · Health+1 more — $15,000 · HealthSocial Impact Partners Inc — $750,000 · Human ServicesSocial Imp…CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $350,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTICU…TEAM INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesTEAM INCFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS CE…BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $65,000 · Human Services+4 more — $95,000 · Human Services+4 moreLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $892,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INI…REGIONAL DATA COOPERATIVE FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $300,000 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL …CONNCORP LLC — $250,000 · Community ImprovementCONNCORP …CTDATA COLLABORATIVE — $908,750 · Public BenefitSIMPLIFYCT INC — $75,000 · Public Benefit
Education$3,561,488Other$5,369,000Philanthropy$2,048,925Health$1,728,000Human Services$1,610,000Community Improvement$1,442,000Public Benefit$983,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYale University — $1,866,493 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC — $1,413,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetCTDATA COLLABORATIVE — $908,750 over 2y, 26% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $892,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC — $800,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSocial Impact Partners Inc — $750,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC — $720,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES — $670,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PROJECT ACTION FUND INC — $666,500 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC — $570,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC — $525,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $370,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC — $360,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC — $355,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $350,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $335,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget4-CT CORP — $300,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC — $300,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetREGIONAL DATA COOPERATIVE FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $300,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $285,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $250,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCONNCORP LLC — $250,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $226,995 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INC — $225,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTEAM INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY — $188,925 over 3y, 10% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $185,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSTUDENT LOAN FUND INC — $167,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetEASTCONN REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER INCORPORATED — $165,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association — $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE — $145,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAVENLY — $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetACCESS AGENCY INC — $77,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSIMPLIFYCT INC — $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $65,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARENT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC — $56,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHISPANIC COALITION OF GREATER WATERBURY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCEINC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES — $40,000 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.

William Caspar Graustein Memorial FundCT68.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · The Melville Charitable 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 Connecticut Project 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 150%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 37%
  • United Way of Connecticut Inc100% of income from government
  • Advancing Connecticut Together Inc100% of income from government
  • The Housing Collective Inc100% of income from government
  • Team Inc84% of income from government
  • Access Agency Inc79% of income from government
  • Community Health Resources Inc79% of income from government
  • Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc70% of income from government
  • Conncorp Llc69% of income from government
  • Simplifyct Inc66% of income from government
  • The Bridge Family Center Inc61% of income from government
  • Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc55% of income from government
  • Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury53% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Haven Inc42% of income from government
  • Edadvance41% of income from government
  • Havenly40% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services37% of income from government
  • Ctdata Collaborative35% of income from government
  • Urban Community Allianceinc30% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy24% of income from government
  • Friends Center for Children Inc21% of income from government
  • The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association21% of income from government
  • Madonna Place Inc20% of income from government
  • Safe Futures Inc15% of income from government
  • Eastconn Regional Educational Service Center Incorporated13% of income from government
  • Yale University12% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc11% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc11% of income from government
  • The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc6% of income from government
  • United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc2% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc1% of income from government
  • Partnership for Strong Communities0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
12rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 61 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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