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United Way of Greater Chattanooga

Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community

$4.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
78
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$276k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Youth Development$8.3MHuman Services$7.4MHealth$6.3MEducation$3.1MHousing & Shelter$1.7MEmployment$974kFood & Nutrition$615kCommunity Improvement$499kOther$0
02FY2025 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 78 grants below total $3,984,241, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,765,435 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $781,194 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $529k
$27,174
Median grant
4
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Partnership for Families Children & Adults$275,900
Northside Neighborhood House$252,801
Chambliss Center for Children$231,212
Boys and Girls Club$198,782
Girls Incorporated$182,153
LA PAZ$156,173
Signal Centers Inc$137,529
YMCA$125,706
CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK$110,431
Big Brothers Big Sisters$109,134
Chattanooga Chamber Foundation$103,500
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA$92,069
THE BETHLEHEM CENTER$81,879
Chattanooga Goodwill Industries$78,243
The AIM Center Inc$77,758
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $5.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $39k → 15%Family Crisis Center: $32k → 15%Family Crisis Center: $28k → 15%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $23k → 15%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $21k → 15%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $351k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $349k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $332k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $315k → 14%Northside Neighborhood House: $263k → 14%Northside Neighborhood House: $253k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $97k → 14%The Sexual Assault Victims Advocacy Center Inc: $23k → 11%The Sexual Assault Victims Advocacy Center Inc: $22k → 11%Children's Advocacy Center: $42k → 12%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $36k → 12%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 12%PURPOSE POINT LEARNING ACADEMY: $135k → 12%HOSPICE OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $34k → 12%JOURNEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $33k → 12%A I M CENTER: $103k → 12%A I M CENTER: $85k → 12%AIM CENTER INC: $77k → 12%AIM CENTER INC: $55k → 12%Hope for the Inner City: $21k → 12%MAURICE KIRBY CHILD CARE CENTER: $35k → 12%MAURICE KIRBY CHILD CARE CENTER: $31k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $387k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $326k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $240k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $227k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $170k → 12%La Paz: $157k → 12%LA PAZ: $156k → 12%LA PAZ: $128k → 12%CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION: $92k → 12%Orange Grove Center: $81k → 12%CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION: $77k → 12%Orange Grove Center Inc: $74k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $121k → 12%Family Promise of Greater Chattanooga: $92k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $92k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $27k → 12%THE BETHLEHEM CENTER: $118k → 12%THE BETHLEHEM CENTER: $82k → 12%The Bethlehem Center: $80k → 12%THE BETHLEHEM CENTER: $56k → 12%THE BETHLEHEM CENTER: $39k → 12%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of United Way of Greater Chattanooga’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 77%.

United Way of Greater Chattanoogalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 91 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
43

Total granted

$30M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-1%

Still filing today

89%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +77%
  • NN
    NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +107%
  • CC
    CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • FC
    FORTWOOD CENTER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $201k
  • PP
    PURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue -45%
  • AH
    AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -8%
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
United Way of Greater Chattanooga

Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community

Philanthropy
2
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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3
Tennessee Valley Coalition to End Homelessness Inc

Providing services to clients to assist in preventing homelessness, training partner organizations on reporting system and reporting to governments, statistical information.

Human Services
4
Chattanooga Design Studio

Chattanooga design studio seeks to elevate the quality of life for all citizens through guidance, collaboration, innovation, and education that promotes livable, accessible, walkable, and humane urban design.

Community Improvement
5
United Way of South Central Tennessee

The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.

—
6
Casa of the Tennessee Heartland Inc

Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.

Civil Rights
7
Volunteer East Tennessee

Volunteer East Tennessee inspires service by equipping organizations and mobilizing volunteers to connect with one another and strengthen communities.

—
8
Carter Street Corporation

Encourage economic development

Community Improvement
9
Invest Chattanooga

Invest chattanooga uses flexible, low-cost capital and strategic public-private partnerships to produce financially sustainable, mixed-income housing with deep permanent affordability that the market alone cannot deliver.

Housing & Shelter
10
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…

Human Services
11
We Care Community Services Inc

The we care mission is to serve economically disadvantaged residents of rhea county, tn by enabling them to help themselves. (offering a hand up not a hand out)

Human Services
12
Court Appointed Special Advocates

To be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Room in the Inn Inc; the most unlike its peers is Downside Up Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

103 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. 103 of the 136 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/103
Grantees still filing
65/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN & ADULTS: $3,743,799 · OtherPARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN & ADULTSBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $2,251,042 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INCCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1,653,969 · OtherCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDRENSIGNAL CENTERS INC: $1,311,685 · OtherSIGNAL CENTERS INCYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA: $1,226,675 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGACHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,161,435 · OtherCHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA+76 more: $5,475,310 · Other+76 moreNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1,958,954 · Human ServicesNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD…THE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $1,506,048 · Human ServicesTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTE…THE AIM CENTER INC: $476,076 · Human ServicesTHE AIM CENTER INCLA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $454,801 · Human ServicesLA PAZ DE DIOS INCFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC: $380,444 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GREA…UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $375,317 · Human ServicesUNITED METHODIST NEIGH…+13 more: $917,344 · Human Services+13 moreGIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA: $1,385,949 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $864,350 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHE…GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS INC: $573,681 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT…+1 more: $67,822 · Youth DevelopmentHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: $1,203,400 · HealthHELEN ROS…LIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH: $185,572 · HealthLIFESPRIN…COUNCIL FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC: $152,513 · HealthCOUNCIL F…EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEAST TENNESS: $145,350 · HealthEPILEPSY …A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC: $119,845 · HealthCHATTANOOGA AUTISM CENTER INC: $106,259 · HealthFIRST THINGS FIRST INC: $104,182 · HealthFOUR POINTS INC FOUR POINTS INC: $96,365 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CHATTANOOGA INC: $87,500 · Health+5 more: $226,492 · Health+5 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CATOOSA: $492,093 · EducationTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $120,044 · EducationCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $101,238 · EducationCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $83,153 · EducationPREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $76,369 · EducationSKYUKA HALL: $50,459 · EducationIVY ACADEMY INC: $50,385 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationChattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc: $694,015 · EmploymentCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $208,142 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER: $125,000 · PhilanthropyRHEA COUNTY UNITED WAY: $100,265 · PhilanthropyCRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $64,388 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $52,617 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE OCOEE REGION: $51,738 · PhilanthropyJACKSON COUNTY UNITED GIVERS FUND: $50,514 · Philanthropy+1 more: $6,150 · Philanthropy
Other$16,823,915Human Services$6,068,984Youth Development$2,891,802Health$2,427,478Education$998,741Employment$694,015Philanthropy$658,814

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $2,251,042 over 7y, 18% of budgetNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1,958,954 over 7y, 13% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1,653,969 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $1,506,048 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA: $1,385,949 over 7y, 26% of budgetSIGNAL CENTERS INC: $1,311,685 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA: $1,226,675 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: $1,203,400 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,161,435 over 7y, 32% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $864,350 over 7y, 22% of budgetChattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc: $694,015 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS INC: $573,681 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetTHE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $539,545 over 7y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CATOOSA: $492,093 over 7y, 20% of budgetTHE AIM CENTER INC: $476,076 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetLA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $454,801 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC: $380,444 over 7y, 86% of budgetUNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $375,317 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $374,867 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC: $319,026 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $271,446 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetLITTLE MISS MAG EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $256,616 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC: $224,313 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $208,142 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPROJECT RETURN INC: $199,055 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH: $185,572 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetLAUNCH INC: $180,391 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING: $169,544 over 2y, 19% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF WALKER DADE CATOOSA& CHATTOOGA COINC: $161,903 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetLEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE: $156,902 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGREENSPACES INC: $155,492 over 3y, 13% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC: $152,513 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEAST TENNESS: $145,350 over 6y, 18% of budgetPRO RE BONA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $137,135 over 2y, 20% of budgetPURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $135,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER: $125,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWALTER E BOEHM BIRTH DEFECTS CENTER INC: $120,366 over 4y, 24% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $120,044 over 2y, 11% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC: $119,845 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE: $107,340 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHATTANOOGA AUTISM CENTER INC: $106,259 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFIRST THINGS FIRST INC: $104,182 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY INC: $102,381 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $101,238 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRHEA COUNTY UNITED WAY: $100,265 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER: $96,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFOUR POINTS INC FOUR POINTS INC: $96,365 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetCHATTANOOGA REGIONAL HOMELESS COALITION INC: $92,791 over 1y, 8.8% 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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga IncTN122.4× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Lillian L Colby Charitable Fdn Ia · Memorial Health Care System Inc · Hamico Inc · George R Johnson Family 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 United Way of Greater Chattanooga funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Greater Chattanooga. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 136 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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