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The Cyrus Eaton Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Recreation & Sports$168kInternational$125kHuman Services$106kArts & Culture$86kFood & Nutrition$73kEnvironment$48kCommunity Improvement$46kReligion$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUGWASH PARK COMMISSION$60,000
US PUGWASH$20,000
NORTH CUMBERLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$6,000
CENTRE FOR LOCAL PROSPERITY$5,000
HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND$5,000
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY$3,500
DRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
CITY FRESH$3,000
AMIS$3,000
FOSTERING HOPE$3,000
LAND STUDIO INC$3,000
PROJECT HOPE FOR THE HOMELESS$2,600
VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$2,500
UPCYCLE PARTS SHOP$2,500
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.

Your US giving — 76% of grant dollars ($649k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 24% that went abroad ($203k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CARING FOR KIDS: $2k → 13%HANNAH'S HOME: $3k → 9%HANNAH'S HOME: $3k → 9%HANNAH'S HOME: $2k → 9%HANNAH'S HOME: $2k → 9%JOSEPH & MARY'S HOME: $3k → 17%JOSEPH & MARY'S HOME: $3k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $3k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $2k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $2k → 17%FOSTERING HOPE: $3k → 17%FOSTERING HOPE: $2k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $3k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $3k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $3k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $2k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $2k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $2k → 17%HOMELESS HOOKUP: $3k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $2k → 17%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.

Beyond the US — 24% of all-years giving ($203k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$203k · 14 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$766k · 59 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
30

Total granted

$766k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+30%

Still filing today

68%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $35k · revenue +27%
  • HN
    HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +29%
  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEST CREEK LAND CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • JH
    JOSEPH HOUSE OF CLEVELAND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • CW
    CLEVELAND WATER ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +430%

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
Hope for Cleveland's Children
2
Cleveland Leadership Center

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

Education
3
Cleveland Mediation Center

Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…

Crime & Legal
4
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.

Education
5
The Land Cle

The Land is a local news startup that reports on Clevelands neighborhoods and inner ring suburbs. We deliver in-depth stories that foster accountability, inform the community, and inspire people to take action.

Arts & Culture
6
Cleveland Arts Prize

The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…

Arts & Culture
7
Cleveland Jobs With Justice

To work as a coalition of labor unions, community organzation, and religious community to raise the public awarness of and build campaigns to promote workers rights an social justice issues.

Education
8
Cleveland Museum of Art

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

Arts & Culture
9
Neighborhood Progress Inc

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

Community Improvement
10
City Fields

To operate as a community development corporation with the goal to transform disadvantaged neighborhoods through five primary areas: physical revitalization, social revitalization, economic development, neighborhood safety, and leadership…

Community Improvement
11
Cleveland Public Market Corporation

Cleveland public market corporations mission is to preserve the city's public market tradition while making the local food system more accessible, equitable, and diverse.

Community Improvement
12
Cleveland Builds Inc

Our mission is to connect motivated individuals in the greater cleveland area with career opportunities in construction.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is The Professional School of Cosmetol. 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 backsteadySenior Affordable HousingCivic Leadership DevelopmentClassical Music Performance…Jewish Federation Cleveland…Senior Care & End-of-Life S…Performing Arts EducationFaith-Based Social 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 26 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%9%5–10yr16%31%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr19%24%35–55yr19%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%3%5–10yr16%18%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr19%28%35–55yr19%11%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/77
the rest of the field
13%
1,299/9,741

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

69 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. 69 of the 103 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
48/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PUGWASH PARK COMMISSION — $157,500 · OtherPUGWASH PARK COMMISSIONCENTRE FOR LOCAL PROSPERITY — $32,000 · OtherCENTRE FOR LOCAL PROSPERITY+68 more — $301,050 · Other+68 moreUS PUGWASH — $120,000 · Public BenefitUS PUGWASHWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER — $14,500 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE…JOSEPHS HOME — $12,000 · Human ServicesJOSEPHS H…Hannahs Home — $11,900 · Human ServicesHannahs H…CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTO…Near Westside MultiService Corp — $7,500 · Human ServicesNear West…GLOBAL CLEVELAND — $7,500 · Human ServicesGLOBAL CL…FOSTERING HOPE — $5,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING…HOMELESS HOOKUP — $2,500 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $35,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $21,000 · Food & NutritionCLEVELAND ARTS EDUCATION CONSORTIUM — $11,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $8,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND — $7,500 · Arts & CultureKulture Kids — $6,000 · Arts & CultureTalespinner Childrens Theatre Inc — $4,550 · Arts & CultureCONTEMPORARY YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $2,000 · Arts & CultureMAELSTROM COLLABORATIVE ARTS FORMERLY THEATER NINJAS INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureZYGOTE PRESS INC — $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE ERIE INK — $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOOTPATH FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentFinding Blank Inc — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LEADERS PROGRAM — $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $15,500 · EnvironmentCROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER — $4,500 · EnvironmentSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES — $4,000 · EnvironmentCity Fresh — $3,000 · EnvironmentCLEVELAND WATER ALLIANCE — $2,500 · EnvironmentLAKE ERIE FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · Environment
Other$490,550Public Benefit$120,000Human Services$73,900Food & Nutrition$56,000Arts & Culture$43,550Youth Development$35,500Environment$32,500

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 budgetUS PUGWASH — $120,000 over 6y, 77% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER — $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENSAFE INC — $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $12,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJOSEPHS HOME — $12,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHannahs Home — $11,900 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLEGAL WORKS INC — $11,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCLEVELAND ARTS EDUCATION CONSORTIUM — $11,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC — $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE ERIE INK — $10,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH CHALLENGE — $10,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $9,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAND STUDIO INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $8,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND — $7,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTPATH FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL CLEVELAND — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY — $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELS — $7,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFinding Blank Inc — $7,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetKulture Kids — $6,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTalespinner Childrens Theatre Inc — $4,550 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER — $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNION MILES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEETING PLACE LEARNING CENTER — $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCity Fresh — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLiterary Cleveland — $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUPCYCLE PARTS SHOP — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCLEVELAND WATER ALLIANCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND ENGINEERING SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMOAB HOUSE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOMELESS HOOKUP — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BRIERMOST FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONTEMPORARY YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST CLAIR SUPERIOR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

  • Who funds US PUGWASH
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER
  • Who funds WOMENSAFE INC
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND
  • Who funds JOSEPHS HOME
  • Who funds Hannahs Home
  • Who funds LEGAL WORKS INC
  • Who funds CLEVELAND ARTS EDUCATION CONSORTIUM
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE INK
  • Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC
  • Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER
  • Who funds LAND STUDIO INC
  • Who funds EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
  • Who funds ECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
  • Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND
  • Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp
  • Who funds FOOTPATH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GLOBAL CLEVELAND
  • Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY
  • Who funds TRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELS
  • Who funds Finding Blank Inc
  • Who funds Kulture Kids
  • Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH80.9× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Community West Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · Cavaliers Youth Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Abington Foundation

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 Cyrus Eaton Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • 2ND Act Org Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Cyrus Eaton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Cyrus Eaton Foundation 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 103 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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