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The Zellerbach Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
224
Grants FY2024
175
Organizations funded FY2023
26%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$170,000
Organizations funded a year
157 to 175
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$164M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations The Zellerbach Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $780k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving161$5.4M23%
FY2023175$5.5M26%
FY2022168$5.4M29%
FY2021173$5.2M40%
FY2020157$5.0Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$7.9MCrime & Legal$5.6MHuman Services$2.8MPhilanthropy$2.4MCivil Rights$2.0MYouth Development$2.0MEducation$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.3MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 308 grantees
All grantees of The Zellerbach Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Immigration Institute of the Bay Area$695,00043%
Independent Arts & Media$661,50056%
Intersection for the Arts$618,90053%
Youth Law Center$510,00053%
Life Learning Academy$500,00053%
Young Women's Freedom Center$450,00052%
Safe & Sound$410,00051%
W Haywood Burns Institute$395,00043%
Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth$388,00056%
Movement Strategy Center$385,00050%
Monument Impact$385,00054%
Dancers Group$367,50053%
Ryse Inc$350,00051%
National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform$350,00058%
California Youth Connection$350,00054%
Centro Legal de la Raza$335,00041%
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice Dba Curyj$335,00054%
Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity$285,00057%
Chinese for Affirmative Action$282,00051%
Asian Law Caucus$280,00051%
The Tahirih Justice Center$280,00051%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa$275,00040%
Legal Services for Children Inc$270,00052%
Partnerships for Trauma Recovery$270,00054%
Community Initiatives$270,00040%
Community Works West Inc$265,00043%
Lincoln$250,00040%
East Bay Agency for Children$250,00050%
Fresh Lifelines for Youth Inc$250,00051%
Mujeres Unidas y Activas$236,00041%
National Center for Youth Law$230,00040%
East Bay Family Defenders$225,000311%
Northern California Grantmakers$212,12541%
Immigrant Legal Resource Center$210,00040%
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice$205,000345%
Youth Alive$205,00051%
The Black Organizing Project Inc$200,00042%
East Bay Childrens Law Offices Inc$200,00051%
Alliance for Girls$200,00055%
Village Community Resource Center$195,00059%
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant$191,00042%
Oasis Legal Services$185,00044%
Centro Laboral de Graton$185,000411%
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights$180,00041%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$180,0003n/a
La Luz Center$178,00042%
Hip Hop for Change Inc$177,000410%
Flourish Agenda$175,00042%
California Immigrant Policy Center$175,00042%
CounterPulse$170,00053%
Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay$168,00040%
Brava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center$160,00053%
Beats Rhymes and Life$160,00033%
Theatre Bay Area$155,00045%
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center$150,00031%
Uc Law Sf Foundation$150,00041%
Family Builders by Adoption$150,00031%
East Bay Community Law Center$150,00031%
Freedom Community Clinic Inc$150,000311%
Immigrant Legal Defense$150,00041%
Canal Alliance$146,00031%
Day Worker Center of Mountain View$140,00038%
Internationals Network for Public Schools Inc$130,00031%
Children Now$125,00021%
American Friends Service Committee$125,0003n/a
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts$120,00041%
Priority Africa Network$120,000325%
Coastside Hope$120,00032%
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc$115,00031%
Because Black Is Still Beautiful$115,000242%
Asian Health Services$113,00020%
Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center$112,20053%
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund$110,00020%
Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children$110,00022%
ARTogether$110,00036%
InterMusic SF$102,50053%
FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme$100,00024%
Oakland Unified School District$100,0002n/a
Westcoast Children's Clinic$95,00030%
Dance Brigade$95,00052%
Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation$90,00021%
African Advocacy Network$90,00023%
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center$82,25046%
Californians for the Arts$80,00026%
Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation$80,00025%
Safehouse for the Performing Arts$77,500413%
Mission Asset Fund$75,00010%
Playwrights Foundation Inc$75,00057%
Alliance for Children's Rights$75,00011%
World Arts West$70,50045%
Urban Peace Movement - Oakland$70,00015%
Crowded Fire Theater Company$69,50056%
Fresh Meat Productions$68,00053%
Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers$67,50057%
Kearny Street Workshop Incorporated$67,50049%
The Z Space Studio$67,00051%
California Shakespeare Theater$65,00022%
Shotgun Players$65,00051%
Dimensions Dance Theater Incorporated$65,00043%
Asian American Women Artists Association Inc$61,250512%
Innovation Law Lab$60,00021%
University of Chicago$60,00010%
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees$60,00031%
Fostering Media Connections$60,00022%
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center$60,000329%
Golden Thread Productions$58,00043%
SOMArts$57,50051%
AXIS Dance Company$57,00043%
Youth Leadership Institute$55,00011%
Pro Arts Inc$54,000441%
Youth Together Inc$50,00017%
Self-Help for the Elderly$50,00010%
Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants$50,00012%
University of San Francisco$50,00010%
Zaccho Sf$50,00052%
Central American Resource Center$50,00010%
Bay Area Legal Aid$50,00010%
National Immigration Forum$50,00020%
West Contra Costa Public Education Fund$50,00011%
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum$50,00050%
Secure Families Collaborative$50,00015%
Womens Audio Mission$48,00041%
The Litquake Foundation$45,50053%
Faith In Action East Bay$45,00013%
Jess Curtisgravity Inc$45,00034%
New Performance Traditions$40,00032%
The Lab Sf$40,00042%
Magic Theatre Inc$40,00041%
Richmond Art Center$40,00032%
OneJustice$40,00031%
The Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco$40,00020%
Southern Exposure$40,00034%
Humanidad Therapy and Education Services$40,00014%
Fictional Artists' Contemporary Theatresan Francisco$40,00029%
Oakland Theater Project$35,00036%
The Writers Grotto$35,00027%
The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated$35,00020%
EastSide Arts Alliance$35,00041%
Playground$35,00024%
Diamano Coura West African Dance Co$35,00046%
Black Joy Parade$35,00032%
Kala Art Institute$35,00031%
Cubacaribe$35,000410%
Accion Latina$35,00032%
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center$33,00031%
Fractured Atlas Inc$32,50030%
Flyaway Productions$32,00053%
Kitka Inc$30,00035%
1951 Coffee Company$30,00014%
Cutting Ball Theater$30,00023%
Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu Hula Halau$30,00034%
West Edge Opera$30,00022%
Auco Vietnamese Cultural Center$30,00037%
Shipyard Trust for the Arts$30,00036%
Yerba Buena Arts & Events dba Yerba Buena Gardens Festival$30,00031%
Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation$30,00021%
Oaklash$30,000213%
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project$30,00032%
East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy$30,00012%
QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture$30,00031%
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco$27,50021%
Kultivate Labs$27,50031%
Nava Dance Theatre$25,000312%
Jamestown Community Center$25,00030%
Cultura y Arte Nativa De Las Americas$25,00030%
Alternative Theater Ensemble$25,00026%
La Pea Cultural Center Inc$25,00022%
San Francisco Mime Troupe Inc$25,00033%
Vital Arts Inc$25,00015%
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association$25,00011%
The African American Art and Culture Complex$23,00011%
Center for New Music San Francisco Inc$20,0002n/a
Robert Moses Kin$20,00025%
Push Dance Company$20,00027%
Audium Incorporated$20,00026%
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management$20,00010%
Abada-Capoeira San Francisco$20,00022%
Edgewood Center for Children and Families$20,00010%
Clarion Performing Arts Center$20,00025%
Oaktown Jazz Workshops$20,00034%
Berkeley Art Center Association$20,00023%
Capoeira Arts Foundation Inc$20,00024%
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir Inc$20,00021%
Del Sol Performing Arts Organization$20,00034%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$20,00010%
Theatre First$20,0002n/a
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$20,00010%
Precita Eyes Muralists Association Inc$20,00033%
Parangal Dance Company$20,00028%
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company$20,00021%
Embodiment Project$19,0001n/a
Community Music Center$18,20020%
Bridge Live Arts Prev Hope Mohr Dance$17,50025%
Theatre of Yugen$17,00039%
Joe Goode Performance Group$16,60021%
The Colorado College$15,00020%
API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center$15,00021%
American Indian Child Resource Center$15,00021%
Destiny Arts Center$15,00011%
The West Oakland Health Council$15,00010%
Djerassi Resident Artists Program$15,00011%
Three Girls Theatre Company Inc$15,00026%
Foglifter Press$15,00034%
Art of the Matter Performance Foundation$15,00027%
Epiphany Dance Theater$15,00015%
Cartoon Art Museum of California$15,00023%
Sew Productions Inc$15,00016%
Artists Television Access$15,00028%
Girls Garage$15,00021%
Creative Growth Art Center$15,00011%
Bay Area Creative BAC$15,0002n/a
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra$15,00021%
Living Jazz$15,00013%
Inkboat Inc$15,000212%
Diaspora Arts Connection Inc$15,00023%
Root Division$15,00012%
San Francisco Ballet Association$12,50050%
San Francisco Symphony$12,50050%
San Francisco Opera Association$12,50050%
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums$12,50050%
El Campanil Theatre Preservation Foundation$10,00011%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc$10,00010%
Filipino-American Development Foundation$10,00011%
Theatre Rhinoceros Inc$10,00013%
Futures Without Violence$10,00010%
San Francisco Youth Theatre$10,00011%
Small Press Distribution Inc$10,00011%
Oasis Arts Inc$10,00012%
Chinese Historical Society of America$10,00021%
New Community Leadership Foundation Inc$10,00015%
Booker T Washington Community Service Center$10,00010%
Manilatown Heritage Foundation$10,00013%
Mission Cultural Center For Latino Arts$10,00011%
Zawaya$10,00019%
Old Skool Cafe$10,00020%
Kambara Plus$10,0001n/a
Sozo Impact Inc$10,00022%
Exitheatre$10,00022%
Sambafunk Inc$10,000112%
Rhythmix Cultural Works$10,00012%
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park$10,00011%
Genryu Arts$10,00024%
Bayview Opera House$10,00011%
The Bay Area Mural Program Inc$10,00012%
Dance Elixir$10,00019%
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players$10,00021%
Support for Families of Children with Disabilities$10,00010%
Aggregate Space Gallery$10,000111%
William James Association$10,00011%
Regional Parks Foundation$10,00010%
Opera Parallle$10,00010%
Marigold Project Inc$10,00014%
San Francisco Center for the Book$10,00021%
California Symphony Orchestra Inc$10,00010%
Haight Street Art Center$10,00011%
Kronos Performing Arts Association$10,00010%
West Oakland Mural Project$10,00016%
New Apollo Youth Symphony Orchestr$10,000112%
Public Works Alliance$10,00010%
Central Stage$10,000112%
Asian Improv Arts$10,0001n/a
Drag Story Hour$10,00013%
La Pocha Nostra Inter Cultural Performance and Community Arts Pro$10,00014%
Three Thirty Three Arts$10,0001n/a
Project Bandaloop$10,00020%
Circo Zero$10,00014%
Legal Aid at Work$6,00010%
Lobster Theater Project Killing My Lobster$5,00012%
The 1947 Partition Archive$5,00013%
Prescott Circus Theatre$5,00011%
Front Porch Music$5,0001n/a
Chinatown Media and Arts Collaborative$5,00010%
National Coalition of 100 Black Women$5,00017%
International Orange Chorale of San Francisco$5,00017%
The Aurora Theatre Company$5,00010%
California Youth Defender Center Inc$5,00013%
Richmond Main Street Initiative Inc$5,00012%
Qualitative Solutions$5,00012%
San Francisco Cinematheque$5,00014%
Bay Area Resource for Newcomers$5,00011%
Hotua Ori$5,00014%
Mercy Housing California$5,00010%
Joyce Gordon Foundation of the Arts$5,0001n/a
Legacy Film Festival on Aging$5,0001n/a
Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project$5,00013%
Radar Productions Inc$5,00012%
Put Ur Play on Foundation$5,000137%
Gapa Fund$5,00017%
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp$5,00012%
The Living Earth Show$5,00012%
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts$5,00010%
Shakespeare-San Francisco$5,00010%
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Inc$5,00013%
Tiny Village Spirit$5,00015%
Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir$5,00010%
Ali Akbar College of Music$5,00011%
Lower Bottom Playaz Inc$5,00013%
Institute for Local Government$5,00010%
Soccer Without Borders$5,00010%
Commonweal$5,00010%
Artist Magnet Justice Alliance$5,00014%
The Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance$5,00012%
Tenants and Owners Development Corp$5,00010%
Shahrzad Dance Academy$5,0001n/a
Bay Area Jazz Mobile$5,0001n/a
Center for the Art of Translation$5,00010%
Crosspulse Inc$5,00019%
Aunt Lute Foundation$4,00012%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Zellerbach Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetImmigration Institute of the Bay Area: $695,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media: $661,500 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $618,900 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetYouth Law Center: $510,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetLife Learning Academy: $500,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetYoung Women's Freedom Center: $450,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSafe & Sound: $410,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetW Haywood Burns Institute: $395,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth: $388,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetMovement Strategy Center: $385,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMonument Impact: $385,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetDancers Group: $367,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetRyse Inc: $350,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNational Institute for Criminal Justice Reform: $350,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetCalifornia Youth Connection: $350,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCentro Legal de la Raza: $335,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCommunities United for Restorative Youth Justice Dba Curyj: $335,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetInterfaith Movement for Human Integrity: $285,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $282,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAsian Law Caucus: $280,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Tahirih Justice Center: $280,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa: $275,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLegal Services for Children Inc: $270,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPartnerships for Trauma Recovery: $270,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCommunity Initiatives: $270,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Works West Inc: $265,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetLincoln: $250,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEast Bay Agency for Children: $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFresh Lifelines for Youth Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas: $236,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law: $230,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEast Bay Family Defenders: $225,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNorthern California Grantmakers: $212,125 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetImmigrant Legal Resource Center: $210,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCalifornia Collaborative for Immigrant Justice: $205,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetYouth Alive: $205,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Black Organizing Project Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetEast Bay Childrens Law Offices Inc: $200,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAlliance for Girls: $200,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetVillage Community Resource Center: $195,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetEast Bay Sanctuary Covenant: $191,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetOasis Legal Services: $185,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCentro Laboral de Graton: $185,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetElla Baker Center for Human Rights: $180,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLa Luz Center: $178,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHip Hop for Change Inc: $177,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetFlourish Agenda: $175,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCalifornia Immigrant Policy Center: $175,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Kenneth Rainin FoundationCA170.1× affinity92 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Center for Cultural Innovation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Akonadi Foundation · Gerbode 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.

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How do I get to The Zellerbach Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Zellerbach Family 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.

About The Zellerbach Family Foundation

How much does The Zellerbach Family Foundation give?
The Zellerbach Family Foundation reported 224 grants totaling $5,995,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 157 and 175 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Zellerbach Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Crime & Legal (19%), Human Services (10%).
Who are The Zellerbach Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Immigration Institute of the Bay Area ($695k), Independent Arts & Media ($662k), Intersection for the Arts ($619k).
Does The Zellerbach Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Zellerbach Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Zellerbach Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Walter and Elise Haas Fund, Phyllis C Wattis Foundation.
Where is The Zellerbach Family Foundation based?
The Zellerbach Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 367 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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