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The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$160k
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 FY20172025.

Education$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.4MHuman Services$989kHealth$819kArts & Culture$600kCivil Rights$436kSocial Science$235kReligion$199kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $800k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $580k
$12,500
Median grant
17
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$160,000
NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE$135,000
TURNING POINT USA$100,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$75,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$60,000
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$50,000
CO2 COALITION$40,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$37,500
AMERICAN FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE$37,500
CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY$37,500
JUDICIAL WATCH$37,500
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$37,500
THE SHEA CENTER$30,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$25,000
ST JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH$25,000
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 (FY21–25, $284k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMAC FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $15k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $100k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $50k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $38k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $10k → 14%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $20k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
MT
IL
MI
NY
OR
PA
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
DE
AZ
KS
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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 12% of The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation’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 Lewis Family Charitable Foundationlessmore 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 55 repeat orgs$612k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
27

Total granted

$6.7M
$371k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+21%

Still filing today

65%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $241k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • HD
    Harbor Day School
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +78%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $585k · revenue +190%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $520k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARKWAY FORD HERITAGE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +44%
  • AA
    ALZHEIMBERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • PM
    PVH MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $30k

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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

5
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

6
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
7
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
8
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

9
The Liberal Patriot Inc

The liberal patriot (tlp) is a digital newsletter focused on american politics and public policy. tlp aims to provide readers with honest analysis and original commentary to help advance a vital center perspective in american life.

Civil Rights
10
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
12
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Parkway Ford Heritage Mission. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Pregnancy Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Domestic Violence ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsIndependent K-12 Schools
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/75
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,490

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

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 112 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
43/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TURNING POINT USA INC — $585,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCSALAVATION ARMY — $300,000 · OtherSALAVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY — $270,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $187,500 · OtherTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATES…Young America's Foundation — $172,500 · OtherYoung America's FoundationNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE — $170,000 · OtherTHE RECTOR WARDENS AND VESTRYMEN OF ST JAMES PARISH IN NEWPORT BEACH — $113,000 · Other+69 more — $1,398,400 · Other+69 moreHarbor Day School — $1,000,000 · EducationHarbor Day SchoolPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $470,750 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $300,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEPACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — $270,000 · EducationPACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 · EducationAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC+5 more — $137,100 · Education+5 moreNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC — $520,000 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $30,000 · Arts & CultureJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $260,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $225,000 · Public BenefitStudents for Life Action Inc — $25,000 · Public Benefit+2 more — $15,000 · Public BenefitHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $370,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $66,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $35,000 · HealthThe Center For Medical Progress — $22,500 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 · HealthFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $197,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER — $20,000 · Human Services+2 more — $6,000 · Human ServicesOld Friends Inc — $120,000 · AnimalsGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · AnimalsNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION — $10,000 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 · Animals
Other$3,196,400Education$2,377,850Arts & Culture$595,000Public Benefit$525,000Health$513,500Human Services$288,500Animals$145,000

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 budgetHarbor Day School — $1,000,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $585,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC — $520,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $470,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $370,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — $270,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $260,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $197,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $187,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $172,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE — $170,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOld Friends Inc — $120,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER — $85,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY — $82,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $66,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCO2 COALITION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $57,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE — $42,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life Action Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVOTER GA — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW — $22,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Center For Medical Progress — $22,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy — $20,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDECISION POINT MINISTRIES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICE DEFENSE INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens United Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT HARBOR FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUR RESCUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Harbor Day School
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds PACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
  • Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation
  • Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Old Friends Inc
  • Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds CO2 COALITION
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds PARKWAY FORD HERITAGE MISSION
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE

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.

Farrell Family FoundationCA32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farrell Family Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · Ebs Foundation · California Community Foundation · H & R Peters Family Foundation · The Bridget Rose Foundation Inc · Eric Javits Family Foundation · The Yaseen Family Foundation Inc · Vandevere Charitable 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 Lewis Family Charitable 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 · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 112 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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