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Tw Lewis Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$4.1MHealth$3.4MPublic Benefit$2.1MReligion$2.0MHuman Services$1.7MCivil Rights$1.1MArts & Culture$555kRecreation & Sports$533kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $413k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY$400,000
UNC KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL$200,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$110,000
VALLEYWISE$100,600
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$100,000
CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE$100,000
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE$100,000
AMERICAN STUDIO$100,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$100,000
PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION$70,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$60,000
ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION$60,000
SUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE AMERICA$50,000
ARIZONA HELPING HANDS$50,000
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE$50,000
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 (FY17–24, $721k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%COMMUNIO: $15k → 6%LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 15%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $65k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $65k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $59k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE: $50k → 11%HOPE WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $25k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $25k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $25k → 11%HOPE & A FUTURE: $3k → 11%NOTMYKID: $3k → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $5k → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $3k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $60k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $50k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $1k → 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

VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
DE
AZ
NM
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.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 79 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

79 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
48

Total granted

$15M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+18%

Still filing today

71%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $910k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitCivil RightsOther

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

  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +9%
  • DC
    DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
    8× · 2017–2024 · $780k · revenue +71%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $651k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • UK
    UNIVERSITY KENTUCKY LEWIS HONORS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M
  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION - THE WOMEN'S BOARD OF BNF
    one grant, 2017 · $303k
  • UK
    UNIVERSITY KENTUCKY CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2021 · $100k

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
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

5
Aclu Foundation of Arizona

The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.

Civil Rights
6
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

7
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

8
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

9
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
10
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

11
International School of Arizona

Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%1%<5yr17%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr12%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%13%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr12%29%55yr+

The field is 28% 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 0.9% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/111
the rest of the field
16%
4,464/28,374

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

107 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. 107 of the 149 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/107
Grantees still filing
76/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY KENTUCKY LEWIS HONORS COLLEGE — $1,500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY KENTUCKY LEWIS HONORS COLLEGEMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE — $760,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEBANNER MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $600,300 · OtherBANNER MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERASU FOUNDATION - BARRETT THE HONORS COLLEGE — $560,000 · OtherASU FOUNDATION - BARRETT THE HONORS COLLEGEFRESH START — $393,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $381,898 · OtherPRAGER UNIVERSITY — $350,000 · Other+85 more — $4,787,766 · Other+85 moreBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $1,711,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOG…Banner Health Foundation — $600,000 · HealthBanner Health F…+11 more — $91,800 · HealthTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $500,000 · EducationTHE FOSTER AL…Grand Canyon University — $400,000 · EducationGrand Canyon …THE GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION INC — $390,000 · EducationTHE GREATHEAR…Conservative Partnership Institute — $300,000 · EducationConservative …AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 · EducationAMERICA FIRST…POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $80,000 · Education+11 more — $266,415 · Education+11 moreTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $650,800 · Public BenefitAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $260,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE — $150,000 · Public BenefitBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $50,000 · Public BenefitBE A LEADER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $5,000 · Public BenefitALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $450,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN — $390,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $140,000 · Civil RightsSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $50,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $25,000 · Civil RightsDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $779,605 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $255,660 · Religion+1 more — $5,000 · ReligionArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation — $439,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $115,200 · Human ServicesAID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA — $75,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC — $50,000 · Human Services+9 more — $42,100 · Human Services
Other$9,332,964Health$2,402,800Education$2,136,415Public Benefit$1,165,800Civil Rights$1,055,000Religion$1,040,265Human Services$721,300

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 budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $1,711,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $779,605 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE — $760,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $650,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBanner Health Foundation — $600,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $500,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation — $439,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University — $400,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION INC — $390,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN — $390,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute — $300,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $292,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $280,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $260,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $255,660 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY — $227,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $190,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX — $165,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $140,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN STUDIO — $125,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $123,615 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $115,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX — $105,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetIndigo Impact Initiative — $100,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetBill of Rights Institute — $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE — $75,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA — $70,150 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGilbert Christian Schools Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $56,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIMPRINTS OF HONOR — $50,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBE A LEADER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $40,519 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURE FOR KIDS — $30,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $29,346 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $26,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOE FOSS INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Banner Health Foundation
  • Who funds THE FOSTER ALLIANCE
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
  • Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University
  • Who funds THE GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN
  • Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute
  • Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL
  • Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC
  • Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
  • Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN STUDIO
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
  • Who funds ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ62.7× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Executive Council Charities

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 Tw Lewis 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 · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    21report 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, 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tw Lewis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tw Lewis 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 149 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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