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The Skadden Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
106
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$506k
Largest
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$18MCivil Rights$9.4MEducation$1.4MHuman Services$709kCommunity Improvement$577kHealth$550kPublic Benefit$459kHousing & Shelter$457kOther$0
02FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k57 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $506k
$39,876
Median grant
24
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$505,860
NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$213,868
LAWYERS COMM FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW$119,468
PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION$114,067
LEGAL AID CHICAGO$110,001
Individual grant recipient$101,457
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC$89,343
BRONX LEGAL SERVICES$88,489
ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND$88,109
HOUSING WORKS INC$87,691
EDUCATION LAW CENTER$87,420
GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM$87,254
BROOKLYN DEFENDER SERVICES$87,150
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT$84,957
EQUIP FOR EQUALITY$84,517
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEE CENTER CARECEN NY: $54k → 6%FOSTER CARE ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 16%Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service: $59k → 16%Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service: $40k → 16%Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service: $37k → 16%COLORADO JUVENILE DEFENDER CENTER: $48k → 12%RIGHTS BEHIND BARS INC: $80k → 14%MICHIGAN PROTECTION & ADVOCACY SERVICE: $32k → 16%Colorado Juvenile Defender Center: $32k → 12%VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $69k → 16%RIGHTS BEHIND BARS INC: $71k → 14%RIGHTS BEHIND BARS INC: $69k → 14%Rights Behind Bars: $33k → 14%Community Activism Law Alliance: $61k → 14%ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY: $29k → 16%VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $33k → 16%ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY: $10k → 16%Victim Rights Law Center: $33k → 16%Rights Behind Bars Inc: $4k → 14%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $40k → 22%Community Activism Law Alliance: $30k → 14%BEYOND LEGAL AID: $15k → 14%Community Activism Law Alliance: $11k → 14%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $58k → 10%Community Activism Law Alliance: $10k → 14%Immigrant Legal Resource Center: $29k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $29k → 10%Ayuda: $62k → 14%AYUDA: $32k → 14%Ayuda: $30k → 14%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $75k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $52k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $38k → 17%Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project: $32k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $32k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $15k → 17%Korean Resource Center: $15k → 14%International Refugee Assistance Project: $59k → 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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IL
WI
MI
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OR
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CA
CO
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OK
LA
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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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 213 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

213 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2024, 152 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

213
213

Total granted

$30M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+35%

Still filing today

63%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $987k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $862k · revenue +110%
  • Legal Aid at Work
    8× · 2017–2024 · $816k · revenue +128%
  • EF
    EQUIP FOR EQUALITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $520k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • AC
    American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc Development
    one grant, 2021 · $77k
  • ME
    MALD ED Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $72k
  • MS
    MHA SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $71k
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.

1
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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2
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
3
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
4
The Public Interest Law Center

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…

Crime & Legal
5
Civil Liberties Defense Center

CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER (CLDC) educates the general public about their rights and privileges under the US Constitution and provides free legal support to climate and social justice activists.

Civil Rights
6
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
7
New Civil Liberties Alliance

Public interest legal activities

Arts & Culture
8
Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…

—
9
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
10
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
11
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
12
Volunteer Legal Advocates

To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her Justice Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Anita Revers Charitable Foundation Anita R Evers Trustee. 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

218 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 218 of the 472 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
211/218
Grantees still filing
165/218
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $861,827 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONAdvancement Project: $575,963 · OtherEQUIP FOR EQUALITY: $519,849 · Other+87 more: $12,118,579 · Other+87 moreLegal Aid at Work: $815,705 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid at WorkTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $431,906 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID CHICAGO: $374,240 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $332,455 · Crime & Legal+54 more: $7,818,266 · Crime & Legal+54 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $861,790 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL …BROOKLYN DEFENDER SERVICES: $475,311 · Civil RightsBROOKLYN DEFEND…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $432,819 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEF…NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION: $376,733 · Civil RightsNEW YORK CIVIL …Justice Action Center: $185,779 · Civil Rights+23 more: $2,133,072 · Civil Rights+23 moreRIGHTS BEHIND BARS INC: $257,635 · Human ServicesASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $244,587 · Human ServicesDISABILITY RIGHTS MICHIGAN: $167,059 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $139,289 · Human ServicesVICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER INC: $133,769 · Human ServicesBEYOND LEGAL AID: $127,123 · Human ServicesAYUDA INC: $124,350 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $116,263 · Human ServicesColorado Juvenile Defender Center DBA Transformative Justice Proj of Colo: $79,623 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $58,960 · Human ServicesCENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEE CENTER CARECEN NY: $54,477 · Human Services+2 more: $78,704 · Human ServicesNEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC: $190,512 · Community ImprovementHOUSING WORKS INC: $161,223 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $155,831 · Community ImprovementTeamChild: $130,488 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $117,214 · Community ImprovementEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC: $484,951 · EducationSustainable Economies Law Center: $101,665 · EducationHER JUSTICE INC: $100,655 · EducationLSNY-BRONX CORPORATION: $43,459 · EducationCommunities Resist Inc: $153,874 · Housing & ShelterMISSION ACTION INC: $147,184 · Housing & Shelter
Other$14,076,218Crime & Legal$9,772,572Civil Rights$4,465,504Human Services$1,581,839Community Improvement$755,268Education$730,730Housing & Shelter$301,058

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $861,790 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLegal Aid at Work: $815,705 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetEQUIP FOR EQUALITY: $519,849 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC: $484,951 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetBROOKLYN DEFENDER SERVICES: $475,311 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $432,819 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $431,906 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $388,266 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION: $376,733 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLEGAL AID CHICAGO: $374,240 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $332,455 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $318,560 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES NYC: $307,248 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetIndiana Legal Services Inc: $302,864 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER INC: $289,326 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $289,101 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER: $270,788 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $270,494 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetGEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC: $269,468 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRIGHTS BEHIND BARS INC: $257,635 over 4y, 12% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $251,759 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $246,954 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION A: $246,659 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $244,587 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $217,603 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetLEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $208,317 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBAY AREA LEGAL AID: $203,333 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC: $190,512 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetMake the Road New York: $188,933 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJustice Action Center: $185,779 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $175,882 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $173,548 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPURPOSE DIGNITY ACTION: $167,374 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS MICHIGAN: $167,059 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $166,681 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $163,143 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSING WORKS INC: $161,223 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $161,203 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $155,831 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC: $154,863 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJUSTICE AT WORK INC: $154,003 over 4y, 12% of budgetCommunities Resist Inc: $153,874 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $152,686 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $151,749 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMAIN STREET LEGAL SERVICES INC: $151,299 over 3y, 97% of budgetTribal Law and Policy Institute: $148,369 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMISSION ACTION INC: $147,184 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $146,336 over 3y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Legal Aid at Work ↗
  • Who funds EQUIP FOR EQUALITY ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN DEFENDER SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES NYC ↗
  • Who funds Indiana Legal Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds RIGHTS BEHIND BARS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARCHCITY DEFENDERS ↗
  • Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION A ↗
  • Who funds ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA LEGAL AID ↗

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.

Equal Justice WorksDC146.8× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Legal Services Corporation · Borealis Philanthropy · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The New York Bar Foundation · Equal Justice America Inc · California Access to Justice Commission · American College of Bankruptcy 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 Skadden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Skadden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Victim Rights Law Center Inc: 89% of income from government
  • National Association of the Deaf: 58% of income from government
  • Disability Law Center Inc: 57% of income from government
  • Veterans Legal Services Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Oregon Law Center: 11% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeast Legal Aid Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Youth Advocacy Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • National Consumer Law Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Justice at Work Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
65report 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.

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 472 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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