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The Cuesta Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$139k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$542kEducation$198kHuman Services$104kHealth$75kYouth Development$66kRecreation & Sports$60kPhilanthropy$59kCrime & Legal$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA DISCOVE$62,500
THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA$10,000
TULSA REGIONAL STEM ALLIANCE INC$6,500
HOLY FAMILY CATHEDRAL$5,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLA$5,000
WALIDS FUND$5,000
OKLAHOMA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUN$3,250
OKLAHOMA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUN$3,250
HOLY FAMILY CATHEDRAL$3,000
HOLY FAMILY CATHEDRAL$3,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF METRO TULSA INC$2,500
COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA C$2,500
CHILD ABUSE NETWORK INC$2,500
OKLAHOMA CENTENNIAL BOTANICAL GARDE$2,500
SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA INC$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $5k → 11%JOHN 316 MISSION: $3k → 14%JOHN 316 MISSION: $3k → 14%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $500 → 15%JOHN 316 MISSION: $2k → 14%JOHN 316 MISSION: $2k → 14%JOHN 316 MISSION: $500 → 14%JOHN 316 MISSION: $500 → 14%TULSA BOYS' HOME: $5k → 15%TULSA BOYS' HOME: $3k → 15%TULSA BOYS' HOME: $3k → 15%TULSA BOYS' HOME: $1k → 15%TULSA BOYS' HOME: $1k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $3k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOMA: $3k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOM: $3k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $3k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $3k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOM: $3k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $3k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $3k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $3k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SVCS: $5k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SVCS: $5k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SVCS INC: $5k → 15%CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 15%CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 15%CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 15%CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 15%CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 15%CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERV: $3k → 15%CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SVCS: $3k → 15%CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 15%CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 15%CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 15%THE BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%THE BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SVCS INC: $3k → 15%THE BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER INC: $2k → 15%JOHN 316 MISSION: $2k → 15%STAND IN THE GAP INC: $2k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $3k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $1k → 15%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 38 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
32

Total granted

$1.1M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+40%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • TC
    TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $455k · revenue +168%
  • The University of Tulsa
    6× · 2018–2024 · $86k · revenue +2%
  • SR
    SOONER ROWING ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TULSA - OLIPHANT ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TN
    The Nobelity Projectgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +40%
  • GG
    GAINING GROUND CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +108%
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
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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2
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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3
Tulsa Honor Academy Inc

The operation of a public charter school in the tulsa area with the mission to equip all scholars with the academic skills, content knowledge, and ethical character required for college graduation and life success.

Education
4
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
5
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
6
Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences

The mission of tsas middle and high school is to provide students a multi-strand liberal arts education in a safe, supportive, individualized and challenging school environment through a college preparatory curriculum.

Education
7
Kipp Tulsa Academy College Prep Inc

Kipp tulsa prepares students from educationally under-served neighborhoods in tulsa, ok with the academic, character and life skills necessary for success in college and the competitive world beyond.

Education
8
Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

Provide the poor of the city of tulsa, oklahoma an opportunity to improve their quality of life through guidance and training in the areas of education, employment, family skills, healthcare, housing, socialization and spirituality.

Community Improvement
9
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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10
Tulsa Casa Inc

Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights
11
Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc

Community action project of tulsa county inc.'s (cap tulsa) mission is to help young children in lower-income families grow up and achieve economic success.

Human Services
12
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children

To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma; the most unlike its peers is Sooner Rowing Association. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 78 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
34/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $454,500 · Arts & CultureTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC+5 more: $11,500 · Arts & CultureTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA DISCOVE: $65,000 · OtherTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA DISCOVEWALIDS FUND: $45,000 · OtherWALIDS FUNDSOONER ROWING ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · OtherSOONER ROWING ASSOCIATIONUNIVERSITY OF TULSA - OLIPHANT ENDO: $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TULSA - OLIPHANT ENDOCITY YEAR INC: $19,000 · OtherTHE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC: $18,500 · OtherTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $19,000 · Other+41 more: $192,000 · Other+41 moreCROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCROSSTOWN LE…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $22,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIO…Youth At Heart Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesYouth At Hea…Resonance Center for Women Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesResonance Ce…TULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesTULSA BOYS' …JOHN 316 MISSION: $11,250 · Human ServicesJOHN 316 MIS…Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesHospice of the Valley: $5,000 · Human Services+4 more: $10,000 · Human Services+4 moreThe University of Tulsa: $86,160 · EducationThe Univers…Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc: $21,000 · EducationTulsa Regio…The Nobelity Project: $5,500 · EducationGAINING GROUND CORPORATION: $5,000 · EducationThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $34,500 · Crime & LegalUSA BMX Foundation: $5,000 · Crime & LegalMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc: $19,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $7,500 · Food & NutritionTHE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA: $15,000 · ReligionIRON GATE INC: $8,000 · Religion
Arts & Culture$466,000Other$443,500Human Services$143,250Education$123,160Crime & Legal$39,500Food & Nutrition$26,500Religion$23,000

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 budgetTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $454,500 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $86,160 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER INC: $40,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $34,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $22,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYouth At Heart Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC: $18,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA: $15,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetResonance Center for Women Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTULSA CHARITY FIGHT NIGHT INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN 316 MISSION: $11,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIRON GATE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Town & Country School Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA DAY CENTER INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAR CARE CLINIC INC: $7,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nobelity Project: $5,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGAINING GROUND CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUSA BMX Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHONOR BUNKER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION AWARE OF OKLAHOMA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFab Lab Tulsa Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GILCREASE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT TRUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD RISING INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROUND ZERO EMERGENCY TRAINING CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA IRISHFEST INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSTAND IN THE GAP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHURCH STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANGHA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGlobal Gardens Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
  • Who funds SOONER ROWING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds Youth At Heart Inc ↗
  • Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ↗
  • Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA ↗
  • Who funds Resonance Center for Women Inc ↗
  • Who funds TULSA CHARITY FIGHT NIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Town & Country School Inc ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc ↗
  • Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CAR CARE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
  • Who funds The Nobelity Project ↗
  • Who funds GAINING GROUND CORPORATION ↗

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 Anne and Henry Za…The Gelvin FoundationTulsa Community Found…Mervin Bovaird Founda…Tulsa Area United WayThe Sharna and Irvin …The Hardesty Family F…Ralph and Frances McG…Oneok Foundation IncGeorge Kaiser Family …Grace & Franklin Bern…Sanford P & Irene F B…
The Anne and Henry Zarrow FoundationOK64.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Tulsa Area United Way · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Oneok Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Domestic Violence Intervention Services: 15% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Tulsa Day Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: 8% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
  • Family & Childrens Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Global Gardens Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
25get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Cuesta Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Cuesta 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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