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United Way of Washtenaw County

To connect people, organizations, and resources together to create a thriving community for everyone.

$4.1M
Granted FY2020
122
Grants FY2020
10
States reached
$226k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Human Services$3.3MHealth$2.8MEducation$1.7MArts & Culture$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHousing & Shelter$977kCrime & Legal$773kScience & Tech$580kOther$0
02FY2020 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 122 grants below total $3,866,667 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,110,134 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $243,467 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k28 grants · $176k
  • $10k–50k73 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.0M
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JDRF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$226,225
ATLANTIC COUNCIL$187,500
NEW$131,000
ANN ARBOR ART CENTER$130,414
FOOD GATHERERS$114,380
MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER$100,000
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF WASHTENAW CN$94,341
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH$90,117
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUN$81,558
MICHIGAN THEATRE FOUNDATION$81,000
ANN ARBOR YMCA$80,730
CHILD CARE NETWORK$75,706
JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION$72,000
OZONE HOUSE$70,522
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$69,279
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 (FY17–20, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MILAN SENIORS FOR HEALTHY LIVING: $20k → 10%MILAN SENIORS FOR HEALTHY LIVING: $15k → 10%Milan Seniors for Healthy Living: $15k → 10%MILAN SENIORS FOR HEALTHY LIVING: $15k → 10%AREA AGENCY ON AGING 1-B: $25k → 8%AREA AGENCY ON AGING 1-B: $15k → 8%COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE CENTERS: $20k → 14%FAITH IN ACTION: $26k → 14%UNITED METHODIST RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES: $15k → 14%FAITH IN ACTION: $12k → 14%FAITH IN ACTION: $11k → 14%Faith In Action: $11k → 14%UNITED METHODIST RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES: $9k → 14%OZONE HOUSE: $98k → 14%OZONE HOUSE: $87k → 14%SafeHouse Center: $83k → 14%OZONE HOUSE: $71k → 14%Ozone House: $58k → 14%SAFEHOUSE CENTER: $48k → 14%SAFEHOUSE CENTER: $48k → 14%SAFEHOUSE CENTER: $40k → 14%Peace Neighborhood Center: $51k → 14%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $49k → 14%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $43k → 14%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $38k → 14%ARBOR HOSPICE: $28k → 14%Womens Center of Southeastern Michigan: $16k → 14%Arbor Hospice: $12k → 14%ARBOR HOSPICE: $12k → 14%WOMEN'S CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%ARBOR HOSPICE: $10k → 14%CHILD CARE NETWORK: $188k → 14%CHILD CARE NETWORK: $186k → 14%Child Care Network: $183k → 14%CHILD CARE NETWORK: $76k → 14%CHILDREN'S LITERACY NETWORK: $13k → 14%MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $57k → 14%MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $57k → 14%CHILDREN'S LITERACY NETWORK: $11k → 14%Michigan Ability Partners: $45k → 14%MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $39k → 14%Children's Literacy Network: $10k → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $53k → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $44k → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $39k → 14%SOS Community Services: $37k → 14%OUR HOUSE: $32k → 14%YPSILANTI SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
RI
CA
VA
NC
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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 106 repeat orgs$939k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

106 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2020, 28 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106
27

Total granted

$14M
$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+1%

Still filing today

82%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $640k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    4× · 2017–2020 · $769k · revenue +49%
  • CC
    Child Care Network
    4× · 2017–2020 · $633k · revenue +28%
  • FG
    FOOD GATHERERS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $519k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • WC
    Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Developement
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • AC
    AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +33%
  • US
    UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE
    one grant, 2018 · $23k

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
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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2
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
3
Area Agency On Aging of Western Michigan Inc

Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…

Human Services
4
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
5
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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6
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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7
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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8
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
9
Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health
10
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
11
United Way of Marquette County

Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…

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12
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ohorizons Charitable Solutions. 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 40 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr12%35%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr12%48%35–55yr13%32%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%5/171
the rest of the field
17%
3,176/18,743

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

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 138 of the 171 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)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/138
Grantees still filing
103/138
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County — $540,302 · OtherCatholic Social Services of Washtenaw CountyFOOD GATHERERS — $518,909 · OtherFOOD GATHERERSCORNER HEALTH CENTER — $484,306 · OtherCORNER HEALTH CENTERREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $478,368 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANWashtenaw Intermediate School District — $319,232 · OtherMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER — $314,848 · OtherAnn Arbor Young Men's Christian Association — $267,550 · OtherATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $387,500 · OtherFISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN — $331,236 · OtherNonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc — $374,183 · Other+86 more — $3,896,684 · Other+86 moreChild Care Network — $633,339 · Human ServicesChild Care Networ…OZONE HOUSE INC — $318,702 · Human ServicesOZONE HOUSE INCDomestic Violence Project — $218,843 · Human ServicesDomestic Violence…MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS — $198,899 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN ABILITY …COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $181,739 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION …Peace Neighborhood Center — $180,720 · Human ServicesPeace Neighborhoo…SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $173,316 · Human ServicesSOS COMMUNITY SER…+17 more — $503,933 · Human Services+17 moreMICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $358,842 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN THE…Ann Arbor Art Association — $358,030 · Arts & CultureAnn Arbor Ar…YANKEE AIR MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $290,070 · Arts & CultureYANKEE AIR M…THE EDISON INSTITUTE INC — $222,450 · Arts & CultureTHE EDISON I…The Ark — $202,827 · Arts & CultureThe ArkDiplomacy Center Foundation — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $133,723 · Arts & Culture+8 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $769,025 · HealthBREAKTHROU…Packard Health Inc — $210,705 · HealthPackard He…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN — $141,847 · HealthPLANNED PA…HOME OF NEW VISION — $69,883 · HealthDawn Incorporated — $59,880 · HealthWASHTENAW HEALTH PLAN — $50,000 · Health+6 more — $72,341 · HealthFoundations Preschool of Washtenaw County — $339,320 · EducationWASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $248,565 · EducationGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $92,000 · EducationMENTOR2YOUTH INC — $58,667 · EducationEASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $54,855 · EducationEMERSON SCHOOL INC — $40,298 · EducationALMA COLLEGE — $33,000 · Education+6 more — $89,750 · EducationELE'S PLACE INC — $188,518 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS GROUP — $90,547 · Youth DevelopmentGROWING HOPE INC — $88,402 · Youth DevelopmentNeutral Zone — $69,363 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $46,114 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Southeastern Michigan — $20,495 · Youth Development+3 more — $34,483 · Youth DevelopmentMichigan Advocacy Program — $484,487 · Crime & LegalWE THE PEOPLE OPPORTUNITY FARM INC — $20,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$7,913,118Human Services$2,409,491Arts & Culture$1,625,942Health$1,373,681Education$956,455Youth Development$537,922Crime & Legal$514,487

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $769,025 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChild Care Network — $633,339 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetCatholic Social Services of Washtenaw County — $540,302 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS — $518,909 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMichigan Advocacy Program — $484,487 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCORNER HEALTH CENTER — $484,306 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $387,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc — $374,183 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetMICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $358,842 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAnn Arbor Art Association — $358,030 over 4y, 17% of budgetFoundations Preschool of Washtenaw County — $339,320 over 4y, 14% of budgetFISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN — $331,236 over 3y, 20% of budgetOZONE HOUSE INC — $318,702 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetYANKEE AIR MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $290,070 over 4y, 16% of budgetAnn Arbor Young Men's Christian Association — $267,550 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY INC — $257,810 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY CENTER OF MICHIGAN INC — $253,285 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetWASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $248,565 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC — $222,450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDomestic Violence Project — $218,843 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetPackard Health Inc — $210,705 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Ark — $202,827 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS — $198,899 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC — $188,518 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetYPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS — $186,426 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY — $182,989 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $181,739 over 4y, 15% of budgetPeace Neighborhood Center — $180,720 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetSOS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $173,316 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $156,507 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN — $141,847 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFriends In Deed — $111,669 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ANN ARBOR — $108,479 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWASHTENAW LITERACY — $105,662 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetAVALON NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION — $102,518 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $92,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGIRLS GROUP — $90,547 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetWASHTENAW HOUSING ALLIANCE — $89,204 over 3y, 20% of budgetGROWING HOPE INC — $88,402 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC — $87,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $83,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $82,323 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISE SCHOOLS — $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEARTHSHARE — $71,748 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY — $71,354 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOME OF NEW VISION — $69,883 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNeutral Zone — $69,363 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY — $65,736 over 4y, 0.6% 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.

Ann Arbor Area Commun…Harry a and Margaret …Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…James a and Faith Kni…Trinity Health - Mich…Dte Energy FoundationFood GatherersDuffy FoundationThe Martin Family Fou…Michigan Health Endow…Thrift Shop Associati…
Ann Arbor Area Community FoundationMI171.5× affinity87 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · Trinity Health - Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Food Gatherers · Duffy Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arbor

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 United Way of Washtenaw County 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 · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
45report 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.

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 171 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $260k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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