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The Glickenhaus Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$593k
Granted FY2023
130
Grants FY2023
25
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Health$376kPhilanthropy$244kEducation$219kArts & Culture$167kHuman Services$123kInternational$96kCrime & Legal$50kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2023 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k119 grants · $228k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
$1,500
Median grant
25
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$100,000
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM$60,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPTHALMOLOGY$50,000
NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION$50,000
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$35,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO$15,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT$10,000
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN$7,500
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$7,000
TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT$5,200
HAND IN HAND$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNFLOWER OF PEACE: $1k → 8%SHELTERBOX USA: $5k → 14%AFGHAN GIRLS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FUND: $3k → 5%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 22%NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $1k → 17%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 10%PROVIDENCE HOUSE: $2k → 20%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $1k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $2k → 10%PROVIDENCE HOUSE: $1k → 20%PROVIDENCE HOUSE: $1k → 20%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $1k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $500 → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $500 → 9%YMCA OF YONKERS: $500 → 9%SPRYE: $5k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE: $2k → 9%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $1k → 17%5 STEPS TO FIVE: $2k → 9%SPRYE: $2k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE: $2k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE: $2k → 9%SPRYE: $1k → 9%SPRYE: $1k → 9%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $8k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $3k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $3k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $8k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $4k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%VISIONS: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $60k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 105 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

105 repeat relationships: 81 still active in FY2023, 24 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
94

Total granted

$1.2M
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+10%

Still filing today

87%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $200k · revenue +5%
  • NY
    NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $135k · revenue +20%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • NI
    NEWBRIDGES IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +50%
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.

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New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
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
12
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Partnership to End Homelessness Inc; the most unlike its peers is Federated Conservationists of Westchester County Inc. 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

204 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. 204 of the 250 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
202/204
Grantees still filing
139/204
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $60,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERACOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPTHALMOLOGY: $50,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPTHALMOLOGYFORDHAM LAW SCHOOL: $24,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherTHE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC: $40,000 · OtherTHE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INCEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $22,500 · Other+101 more: $361,562 · Other+101 moreNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $18,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISE…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · Health+15 more: $40,500 · Health+15 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH AP…Pebble Beach Company Foundation: $7,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $4,100 · PhilanthropyTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELL…COMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FIR…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $20,000 · EducationTrustees of D…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $15,900 · EducationTRUSTEES OF T…The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $10,000 · EducationThe Rippowam …ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $10,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL …ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,000 · Education+6 more: $15,900 · Education+6 moreMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI …JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $22,200 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMU…HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $14,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET…ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $12,500 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION …SPRYE INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesSPRYE INC5 Steps to Five: $8,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,200 · Human Services+13 more: $25,800 · Human Services+13 moreMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $19,500 · Arts & CultureDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $7,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,100 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $4,000 · Arts & CultureKids Empowered by Your Support Inc: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RYE ARTS CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $6,200 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $6,500 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · InternationalAIRLINK INC: $5,000 · InternationalRAZOM INC: $5,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $5,000 · InternationalALIGHT: $5,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $3,500 · InternationalHIAS INC: $3,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $3,000 · International+10 more: $14,800 · International
Other$578,562Health$224,000Philanthropy$211,600Education$176,300Human Services$162,700Arts & Culture$72,800International$70,800

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $22,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $19,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $15,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF PORT CHESTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPRYE INC: $9,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY ACTION: $8,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $8,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budget5 Steps to Five: $8,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $7,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $7,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMELIA ISLAND CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES FOR ALASKA: $5,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $5,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $5,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAIRLINK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Nancy Glickenhaus FoundationNY38.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nancy Glickenhaus Foundation · Margaret Cameron and James M Glickenhaus Foundation · The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · United Way of Westchester and Putnam · The New York Community Trust · The Dunn Family Foundation · Impact100 Westchester Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Nicholas & Christina Raho Foundationinc · Robin Hood Foundation · Synchrony 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Glickenhaus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Glickenhaus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Blue Hills Civic Association: 72% of income from government
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Community First School Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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 Glickenhaus Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Glickenhaus 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 250 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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