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Van Dykebilly Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$2.3MEducation$1.2MEnvironment$505kReligion$227kHealth$122kArts & Culture$84kHuman Services$13kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$90,000
A HUMANE WORLD$90,000
ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY$40,000
NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$35,000
PEOPLE FOR ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS$35,000
VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL$20,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$20,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY OF ANIMALS$20,000
ST THOMAS FOUNDATION$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
ZOO NEW ENGLAND$10,000
C&W RUSTIC HALLOW SHELTER$6,000
GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS$5,000
NETWORK FOR ANIMALS$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 16%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $5k → 14%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 16%COMPANIONS FOR HEROS: $5k → 14%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 16%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $5k → 14%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 16%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $5k → 14%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 16%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $5k → 14%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $5k → 14%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $3k → 16%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $5k → 14%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $3k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 16%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
LA
MS
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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Van Dykebilly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Van Dykebilly Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.
$4.0M · 56 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
26

Total granted

$4.0M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

64%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $547k · revenue +31%
  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $248k · revenue +147%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMANDAS FARM ANIMAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2022 · $24k
  • VO
    VOYAGEURS OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • GU
    GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $11k

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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.

Animals
5
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
6
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
7
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

8
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

9
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
10
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
11
Hope for China Dogs Rescue

At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…

Animals
12
Animal Angels

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pine River Watershed Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPublic Library OperationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyEquine Therapy Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%50%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

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.

05the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 88 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/50
Grantees still filing
30/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $1,010,760 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTANATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $310,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONHUMANE SOCIETY UNITED STATES — $214,400 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY UNITED STATESVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $160,000 · OtherVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $130,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYA HUMANE WORLD — $90,000 · OtherRIVER HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $88,600 · Other+39 more — $341,700 · Other+39 moreHumane World for Animals Inc — $546,750 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $248,000 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS …Animal Humane Society — $180,000 · AnimalsAnimal Humane SocietyTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $90,000 · AnimalsCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND — $90,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC — $62,000 · AnimalsFOUR CORNERS EQUINE RESCUE — $62,000 · Animals+18 more — $463,690 · Animals+18 moreST THOMAS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER ASSOCIATION INC — $32,000 · HealthBLUEBIRDS AND BLOOMS INC — $25,000 · Health+2 more — $4,000 · HealthMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $37,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $13,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMON SENSE MEDIA — $6,000 · Arts & CultureCompanions for Heroes — $35,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $32,000 · Human ServicesWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $40,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $11,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $9,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE GENERATION — $10,000 · EducationC & Ws RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC — $6,000 · PhilanthropyArt 2 Heart — $3,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,345,460Animals$1,742,440Health$121,000Arts & Culture$76,000Human Services$67,000Environment$60,000Education$10,000Philanthropy$9,000

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 budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $546,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $248,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Humane Society — $180,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $130,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND — $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC — $62,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetFOUR CORNERS EQUINE RESCUE — $62,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetST THOMAS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $45,740 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $43,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $43,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC — $41,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNetwork for Animals USA Inc — $40,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $37,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Place — $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCompanions for Heroes — $35,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER ASSOCIATION INC — $32,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $32,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED PAW PROJECT — $31,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetIZZY'S LOVE EQUINE RESCUE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $27,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBLUEBIRDS AND BLOOMS INC — $25,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC — $23,150 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetA VOICE FOR ALL PAWS INC — $21,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetOLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HUMANE SOCIETY — $18,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTHE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING HAVEN ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLIMATE GENERATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPINE RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE — $6,250 over 7y, 9.5% of budgetC & Ws RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER INC — $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY — $5,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSMILEYS RESCUES — $5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetAGAPE ANIMAL RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTUBMAN — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt 2 Heart — $3,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Humane World for Animals Inc
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
  • Who funds Animal Humane Society
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND
  • Who funds ANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC
  • Who funds FOUR CORNERS EQUINE RESCUE
  • Who funds ST THOMAS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
  • Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  • Who funds TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC
  • Who funds Network for Animals USA Inc
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA
  • Who funds Animal Place
  • Who funds Companions for Heroes
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED PAW PROJECT
  • Who funds IZZY'S LOVE EQUINE RESCUE INC
  • Who funds MUTTS WITH A MISSION
  • Who funds BLUEBIRDS AND BLOOMS INC
  • Who funds VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC
  • Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC
  • Who funds A VOICE FOR ALL PAWS INC
  • Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HUMANE SOCIETY

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.

Joyce a Ward FoundationCA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joyce a Ward Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund) · John R Oltman Charitable Foundation · Butchkie Foundation Inc · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Duncans and Tuquis Legacy Organization Dba Datlo · Edwin D Marks Animal Foundation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust

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 Van Dykebilly 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 · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England2% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report 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, 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.

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 88 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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