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Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$73MEducation$14MHuman Services$6.7MPublic Benefit$5.7MHousing & Shelter$4.5MYouth Development$2.2MFood & Nutrition$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $459k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+11 grants · $21M
$55,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$453M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UT Rio Grande Valley$10,000,000
Driscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation$6,250,000
Moody Clinic (Brownsville Society for Crippled Children Incorporated)$1,252,469
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute$700,000
City of Rio Hondo$445,909
Children's Bereavement Center of the Rio Grande Valley Inc$399,311
IDEA Public Schools$366,159
It's Time Texas$345,056
Plaza Amistad$300,000
Tropical Texas Behavioral Health$260,000
Harlingen Neighborhood Food Pantry$250,000
Harlingen CISD$226,200
Waco Foundation$211,000
Connect Humanity$201,448
IDRA (Intercultural Development Research Association)$145,976
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 (FY19–24, $6.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IT'S TIME TEXAS: $500k → 10%IT'S TIME TEXAS: $454k → 10%NUEVOS HORIZONTES DE STARR COUNTY: $29k → 33%It's Time Texas: $391k → 10%IT'S TIME TEXAS: $233k → 10%Good Samaritan Community Services: $50k → 16%IT'S TIME TEXAS: $110k → 10%Buckner Children & Family Services: $100k → 14%Proyecto Desarrollo Humano: $25k → 27%It's Time Texas: $345k → 10%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $55k → 14%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 16%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $50k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $100k → 16%Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center Inc: $99k → 23%Capable Kids Foundation: $47k → 27%Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center Inc: $50k → 23%WOMEN TOGETHER FOUNDATION: $45k → 27%The Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center: $50k → 23%Children's Bereavement Center of the Rio Grande Valley Inc: $399k → 23%Loaves & Fishes of the Rio Grande Valley Inc: $105k → 23%Family Crisis Center: $100k → 23%Family Crisis Center: $100k → 23%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $67k → 23%Loaves & Fishes of the Rio Grande Valley Inc: $38k → 23%LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $366k → 27%Dentists Who Care: $158k → 27%AURORA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $100k → 27%Aurora House Foundation: $75k → 27%AURORA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $75k → 27%AURORA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $68k → 27%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $151k → 23%AURORA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $60k → 27%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $100k → 23%Dentists Who Care: $55k → 27%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $30k → 23%La Posada Providencia: $50k → 23%AGAPE MISSIONARIES FOR LIFE: $100k → 23%SUNSHINE HAVEN INC: $201k → 23%Sunshine Haven Inc: $106k → 23%SUNSHINE HAVEN INC: $47k → 23%SUNSHINE HAVEN INC: $27k → 23%Good Neighbor Settlement House: $243k → 23%RCCC Inc: $211k → 23%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $183k → 23%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $80k → 23%RCCC Inc: $33k → 23%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

WI
MI
NY
CA
VA
KS
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93M · 84 repeat orgs$23M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

84 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
72

Total granted

$93M
$9.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+13%

Still filing today

65%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • DC
    Driscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $17M · revenue +408% · 26% of their budget
  • CD
    COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD
    3× · 2019–2022 · $3.5M · revenue +80%
  • ST
    SOUTH TEXAS EMERGENCY CARE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SU
    SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY - IVMF
    one grant, 2019 · $1.2M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $505k
  • CO
    CITY OF PORT ISABEL
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
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
Atascosa Health Center Inc

Health care services are provided to low to moderate income families who are residents of South Texas. Services are provided at a low cost are based on abiilty to pay base. Approximately 18,022 patients were served in the fiscal year.

Health
2
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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3
Your Health Clinic

Empowering north texans to optimize health through outreach, education, prevention, evidence-based interventions, integration, and quality measurement.

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4
Centro San Vicente

Provide community-based primary healthcare with particular concern for the poor and needy. with a coordinated and holistic apporach in caring for body, mind, and spirit, offer affordable health care, social service, and health education…

Health
5
Healthy Family Services of Texas Inc

Healthy Family Services of Texas is dedicated to promoting the physical, mental, and emotional health of our patients by offering comprehensive healthcare services and wellness programs.

Health
6
South Texas Rural Health Services

South Texas Rural Health Services, Inc. provides charitable health services, including the recruitment of health care personnel to the rural service area, and primarily serves the low income population.

Health
7
Vida Y Salud Health Systems Inc

Vida Y Salud-Health Systems, Inc. was founded in 1972 and provides health services to the people of Zavala,Dimmit,LaSalle,Uvalde and surrounding counties. The clinic maintains four program/service delivery sites and provides services such…

Health
8
Planned Parenthood Cameron County

Provide family planning and reproductive healthcare services to both adults and teenagers, with particular emphasis on serving low-income and medically underserved populations.

Health
9
Behavioral Health Solutions of South Texas

To develop and implement effective age-appropriate, consumer-driven, evidence-based services to prevent and reduce substance use and strengthen mental wellness across the southernmost Texas communities.

Human Services
10
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health provides comprehensive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of the individual, advocates…

Health
11
Texans Care for Children Inc

Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…

Crime & Legal
12
South Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Crisis pregnancy counseling.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Bereavement Center of the Rio Grande Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rio Grande Valley Long Term Disaster Recovery. 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

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 180 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/96
Grantees still filing
58/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTRGV - THRIVE: $21,500,000 · OtherUTRGV - THRIVEUTRGV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $16,828,238 · OtherUTRGV SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $10,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEYTROPICAL TEXAS BEHAVIOR HEALTH: $4,670,371 · OtherTROPICAL TEXAS BEHAVIOR HEALTH+112 more: $23,414,807 · Other+112 moreDriscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation: $17,000,000 · PhilanthropyDriscoll Children'…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY: $802,924 · Philanthropy+4 more: $909,674 · PhilanthropySOUTH TEXAS EMERGENCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $1,326,317 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $700,000 · HealthPLAZA AMISTAD: $600,000 · HealthHOLY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $543,270 · HealthCULTURE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $520,200 · HealthLower Rio Grande Valley Community Health Management: $375,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood South Texas: $350,000 · HealthBROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $320,518 · HealthMHP SALUD: $249,770 · HealthSOUTH TEXAS JUVENILE DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $249,450 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $232,964 · Health+11 more: $1,035,378 · HealthIT'S TIME TEXAS INC: $2,033,987 · Human ServicesGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc: $520,763 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC: $399,311 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE HAVEN INC: $399,055 · Human ServicesAURORA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $378,000 · Human ServicesLOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I: $371,146 · Human ServicesPROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $286,744 · Human ServicesFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC: $272,900 · Human ServicesDENTISTS WHO CARE INC: $269,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $255,000 · Human ServicesRCCC INC: $243,700 · Human Services+11 more: $956,249 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD: $3,458,267 · Housing & ShelterAMIGOS DEL VALLE INC: $450,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterIDEA Public Schools: $1,202,872 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $618,682 · EducationTHE TSTC FOUNDATION: $397,576 · EducationVIDA: $260,000 · EducationCATCH Global Foundation: $179,000 · EducationSu Casa De Esperanza Inc: $175,110 · EducationC A M P UNIVERSITY: $150,495 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $150,000 · EducationHARLINGEN NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRY: $510,055 · AnimalsTADSAW INC: $25,000 · Animals
Other$76,413,416Philanthropy$18,712,598Health$6,502,867Human Services$6,385,855Housing & Shelter$4,058,267Education$3,133,735Animals$535,055

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 budgetDriscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation: $17,000,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD: $3,458,267 over 3y, 24% of budgetIT'S TIME TEXAS INC: $2,033,987 over 6y, 17% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS EMERGENCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $1,326,317 over 4y, 13% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $1,202,872 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HARLINGEN: $1,000,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY: $802,924 over 3y, 22% of budgetFOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC: $714,502 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $700,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $618,682 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAZA AMISTAD: $600,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetHOLY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $543,270 over 3y, 25% of budgetGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc: $520,763 over 4y, 13% of budgetCULTURE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $520,200 over 4y, 51% of budgetHARLINGEN NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRY: $510,055 over 3y, 82% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOPE PROJECTS INC: $466,174 over 4y, 16% of budgetAMIGOS DEL VALLE INC: $450,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC: $399,311 over 1y, 45% of budgetSUNSHINE HAVEN INC: $399,055 over 5y, 49% of budgetTHE TSTC FOUNDATION: $397,576 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetWACO FOUNDATION: $381,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAURORA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $378,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetLower Rio Grande Valley Community Health Management: $375,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood South Texas: $350,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $320,518 over 3y, 17% of budgetPROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $286,744 over 4y, 46% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC: $272,900 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetDENTISTS WHO CARE INC: $269,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetPROJECT FIT AMERICA: $262,060 over 1y, 50% of budgetVIDA: $260,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $255,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMHP SALUD: $249,770 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS JUVENILE DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $249,450 over 4y, 27% of budgetRCCC INC: $243,700 over 2y, 46% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $232,964 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNUESTRA CLINICA DEL VALLE INC: $220,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFriendship of Women Inc: $211,400 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $198,677 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetBROWNSVILLE WELLNESS COALITION: $184,600 over 4y, 22% of budgetCATCH Global Foundation: $179,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $178,905 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSu Casa De Esperanza Inc: $175,110 over 4y, 14% of budgetCHILD ABUSE EDUCATION PROGRAM OF SOUTH TEXAS: $162,500 over 6y, 68% of budgetTIP of Texas Family Outreach Inc: $156,912 over 4y, 22% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC: $152,492 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetC A M P UNIVERSITY: $150,495 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Driscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD ↗
  • Who funds IT'S TIME TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH TEXAS EMERGENCY CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HARLINGEN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PLAZA AMISTAD ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc ↗
  • Who funds CULTURE OF LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds HARLINGEN NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOPE PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMIGOS DEL VALLE INC ↗

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.

Raul Tijerina Jr FoundationTX80.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Knapp Community Care Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education · Serafy Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Jules D Gosseaux Foundation Inc · Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation · Neal & Lourdes Simmons 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 Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • Mhp Salud: 66% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Valley Baptist Legacy 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 180 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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