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The Sheila Reicher Fine Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$251k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$330kEnvironment$263kArts & Culture$122kHealth$109kReligion$104kInternational$77kFood & Nutrition$52kCivil Rights$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$45k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$46,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$16,000
NOT IN OUR TOWN$10,000
TREE OF LIFE INC$10,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$6,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$5,727
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE OF CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$4,500
412 FOOD RESCUE$4,000
ANNE FRANK CENTER USA$3,000
WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY$3,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE - PITTSBURGH$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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE - PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $200 → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%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

AK
VT
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CA
CO
VA
DC
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 11% of The Sheila Reicher Fine 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. Read by recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 46% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Sheila Reicher Fine Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.8% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$800k · 40 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
40

Total granted

$800k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+28%

Still filing today

85%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther

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

  • TO
    Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +54%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +13%
  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • TW
    The Working Group
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -20%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
    one grant, 2021 · $8k

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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services
4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
11
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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12
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr13%5%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr17%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr17%51%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/78
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,084

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

76 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. 76 of the 100 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
55/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $304,630 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTREE OF LIFE INC — $61,000 · OtherTREE OF LIFE INCCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 · OtherCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ARTJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $28,626 · Other+49 more — $182,914 · Other+49 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $247,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER P…Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $45,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way …+7 more — $35,020 · Philanthropy+7 moreSQUIRREL HILL HEALTH CENTER — $14,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $13,900 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $13,000 · HealthSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthInternational OCD Foundation Inc — $8,500 · HealthNAMI National — $6,500 · HealthMOBILE MEDICS INTERNATIONAL — $4,000 · Health+10 more — $15,763 · HealthWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $20,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $14,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $5,000 · InternationalGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $35,227 · Food & Nutrition412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $16,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $5,500 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureANNE FRANK CENTER USA INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HAZLETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $2,500 · Arts & CultureWQED MULTIMEDIA — $2,500 · Arts & CultureQUANTUM THEATRE INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $2,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $11,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $6,500 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $5,000 · EducationJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay — $3,920 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $2,500 · EducationBRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL - MARIN — $1,000 · Education
Other$627,170Philanthropy$327,520Health$85,663International$69,000Food & Nutrition$50,227Arts & Culture$43,500Education$29,920

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $247,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $35,227 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $28,626 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSQUIRREL HILL HEALTH CENTER — $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $13,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Working Group — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $8,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational OCD Foundation Inc — $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360 — $7,560 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO HILLEL — $5,214 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $4,820 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE MEDICS INTERNATIONAL — $4,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay — $3,920 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANNE FRANK CENTER USA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAZLETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA — $2,500 over 1y, 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 Fine FoundationHillman Family Founda…Giant Eagle FoundationThe Pittsburgh Founda…Staunton Farm Foundat…The Grable FoundationJewish Federation of …Richard King Mellon F…The Philip Chosky Cha…David S Shapira Found…John Pritzker Family …Eden Hall Foundation
The Fine FoundationPA38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Fine Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation · David S Shapira Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Eden Hall 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 Sheila Reicher Fine 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
23report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Sheila Reicher Fine Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sheila Reicher Fine 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 100 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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