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The Manitowoc Company 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.

$186k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Health$186kHuman Services$102kPhilanthropy$85kEducation$66kEmployment$38kRecreation & Sports$32kYouth Development$30kCommunity Improvement$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKE'S HOUSE INC$100,000
CREW COLLABORATIVE$10,000
PORT WASHINGTON-SAUKVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC$7,500
UNITED WAY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY$6,000
COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES$5,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WI INC$5,000
WAUSHARA COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$5,000
DOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC$4,275
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN$3,000
MILWAUKEE WOMEN INC$2,600
PLAY4CADE INC$2,000
MMP&W VOLUNTEER FIRE & AMBULANCE$2,000
MANITOWOC COUNTY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$1,800
OCCUPATIONAL SERVICES INC$1,750
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, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $18k → 9%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $300 → 12%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $500 → 10%JENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $1k → 14%SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $8k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $8k → 9%STREETLIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $5k → 5%LAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES & FRIENDS: $1k → 11%SOLES FOR JESUS INC: $500 → 17%SOLES FOR JESUS INC: $500 → 17%FAMILY CARE SERVICES: $500 → 9%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

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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.

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$407k · 45 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
64

Total granted

$407k
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

71%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BH
    BROOKES HOUSE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $152k · revenue +48%
  • TK
    THE KISKI SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +30%
  • KB
    KIDS BUILDING WISCONSIN INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • AG
    AMERICA GIVES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • TB
    THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG AND SHIPPENSBURG INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -9%

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
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Inc

Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.

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2
The Chamber of Manitowoc County Inc

The chamber of manitowoc is a member-driven organization that provides resources and services to promote and maintain a strong business environment.

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3
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
4
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
5
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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6
The County Chamber of Commerce

The business council of westchester's mission is to work hard to grow the economy, create jobs and build a strong business community in westchester county.

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7
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation

Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…

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8
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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9
Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Inc

Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.

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10
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
11
Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.

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12
Wisconsin Section of the Pga of America Inc

To promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the wisconsin section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf professionals…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mercersburg Lions Community Park Association. 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 FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Youth Development CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Food PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Local Food System Organizat…Youth Sports ProgramsWomen & Girls Leadership De…School District FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Ymca Youth DevelopmentDomestic Violence ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…
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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%48%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% 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%0/96
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,469

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

80 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 130 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
39/80
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BROOKES HOUSE INC — $151,606 · HealthBROOKES HOUSE INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES O…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN …+5 more — $12,500 · Health+5 moreTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE — $25,000 · OtherTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTEMAKE-A-WISH PENNSYLVANIA DELAWARE — $18,788 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH PENNSYLVANIA DELAWARECOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC — $10,500 · OtherPort Washington High School — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NE FLORIDA INC — $7,500 · OtherST MARCUS LUTHERAN SCHOOL — $7,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $12,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INCCREW COLLABORATIVE — $10,000 · OtherCHIEFS FOOTBALL — $8,500 · Other+72 more — $93,731 · Other+72 moreUNITED WAY MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $32,899 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY MAN…AMERICA GIVES INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES …MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMADISON COMMUN…THE SEENA MAGOWITZ FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SEENA MAGO…+3 more — $6,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreSOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC — $32,500 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Diocese — $5,000 · Human ServicesStreetLife Communities Inc — $5,000 · Human Services+7 more — $5,300 · Human ServicesTHE KISKI SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $6,000 · EducationManitowoc Professional Police Association — $5,000 · EducationHAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,700 · EducationMILWAUKEE WOMEN INC — $2,600 · EducationROTARY CLUB OF WAYNESBORO FOUNDATION — $2,600 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION — $2,500 · EducationBUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS — $2,000 · Education+6 more — $3,600 · EducationKIDS BUILDING WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG AND SHIPPENSBURG INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION — $3,335 · Youth Development+1 more — $100 · Youth DevelopmentDOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC — $11,800 · Community ImprovementPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementPORT MAIN STREET INC — $1,750 · Community ImprovementMAINSTREET WAYNESBORO INC — $1,500 · Community Improvement+2 more — $625 · Community Improvement
Health$184,106Other$203,519Philanthropy$78,899Human Services$47,800Education$47,000Youth Development$28,435Community Improvement$25,675

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 budgetBROOKES HOUSE INC — $151,606 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $32,899 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE KISKI SCHOOL — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS BUILDING WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC — $11,800 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC — $10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG AND SHIPPENSBURG INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREW COLLABORATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHIEFS FOOTBALL — $8,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAUSHARA COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManitowoc Professional Police Association — $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE SEENA MAGOWITZ FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetStreetLife Communities Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE HAVEN OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSUMMIT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION — $3,335 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANITOWOC COUNTY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC — $3,300 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE WOMEN INC — $2,600 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF WAYNESBORO FOUNDATION — $2,600 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT LAKES DRYHOOTCH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION — $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNourishMKE Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCCUPATIONAL SERVICES INC — $1,950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROW IT FORWARD INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORT MAIN STREET INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINSTREET WAYNESBORO INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

The Foundation for En…Ruth St John & John D…Green Bay Packers Fou…Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…United Way of Frankli…Chambersburg HospitalPennsylvania Automoti…Nora Roberts Foundati…Baird Foundation IncFirstenergy FoundationJane & Arthur Stangel…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA26.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · United Way of Franklin County · Chambersburg Hospital · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Jane & Arthur Stangel Fund 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 Manitowoc Company 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
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no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 130 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.

Source object · view filing

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