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Vermont Humanities Council

Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.

$556k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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 FY20202024.

Arts & Culture$699kEducation$220kHuman Services$48kFood & Nutrition$48kYouth Development$42kInternational$30kCommunity Improvement$30kPublic Benefit$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 19 grants below total $207,525 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $556,251 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $348,726 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNSON PUBLIC LIBRARY$25,000
VERMONT STUDIO CENTER$25,000
WESTON THEATRE COMPANY$25,000
WESTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$15,000
CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC$10,000
ABENAKI CIRCLE OF COURAGE INC$10,000
LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM$10,000
BURLINGTON HISTORY & CULTURE CENTER$10,000
BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
HENRY SHELDON MUSEUM$10,000
WINDHAM WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL$7,500
RETREAT FARM$7,500
RUTLAND COUNTY PRIDE$7,500
VETS TOWN HALL$7,500
MANCHESTER COMMUNITY LIBRARY$5,525
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 (FY20–23, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 9%RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 14%PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT: $10k → 10%THE RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT: $8k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY INC: $5k → 10%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.

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$608k · 26 repeat orgs$623k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
65

Total granted

$608k
$496k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+22%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • VH
    VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $49k · revenue +28%
  • LC
    LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $49k · revenue +69%
  • CF
    CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +236%

Funded once

  • KL
    KELLOGG-HUBBARD LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +158%
  • IC
    INTERVALE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -8%
  • GI
    GOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +192%

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
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
2
Dorset Village Public Library Association Inc

General reading and lending library offering 24,000 titles, videos, audio books, newspapers, magazines, as well as, various programs to 3,000 residents of Dorset and smaller towns.

Education
3
Castleton Free Library

The Castleton Free Library serves as a welcoming center for our community and a gateway to the world of information and imagination. We provide free access to materials and ideas through robust collection development, cultural and creative…

Education
4
Morristown Centennial Library Assoc

Morristown centennial library association provides a free public library for all residents of morristown, vermont.

Education
5
Dorset Historical Society

The mission is to develop and preserve the history of dorset, its evirons and its people

6
Vermont Museum of Natural History Inc

Environmental education through museum exhibits and school, library, and other public programs.

Arts & Culture
7
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
8
Wethersfield Historical Society

The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
9
Vermont Performing Arts League

The mission of Vermont Performing Arts League is to support and sustain a spirit of community among diverse peoples by fostering educational, cultural, social and recreational

10
Quechee Library Association

The Quechee Library serves as a public library and freely provides access and materials for information, lifelong learning, entertainment, and reflection, as well as programs to foster community and engagement.

11
Barre Opera House Inc

The mission of the barre opera house inc. is to restore, preserve and operate the historic barre opera house as a center for the performing arts serving the entire central vermont community.

Arts & Culture
12
Manchester Historical Society

To collect, preserve, interpret , and present the story of manchester, vermont through research, collection, exhibitions, programs and publications.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodstock History Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rutland County Pride. 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 backsteadyEarly Childhood Care CentersVermont Family Support Serv…Fraternal Service LodgesMental Health & Development…Affordable Housing Developm…Senior Residential CareIndependent Schools VermontContemplative Education Cen…Preschool and Early Educati…Education Leadership Networ…
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 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%8%<5yr12%6%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr20%28%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr17%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%9%<5yr12%6%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr20%25%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr17%25%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/100
the rest of the field
9%
416/4,872

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

81 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. 81 of the 101 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/81
Grantees still filing
53/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $49,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETYLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC — $48,500 · Arts & CultureLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCCLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC — $42,500 · Arts & CultureCLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INCORLEANS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $30,500 · Arts & CultureORLEANS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER — $30,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTERSheldon Art Museum Archaeological and Historical Society Inc — $27,500 · Arts & CultureTHE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER — $25,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBENNINGTON MUSEUM INC — $22,500 · Arts & CultureFAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM — $22,000 · Arts & CultureThe Ethan Allen Homestead Museum — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+24 more — $209,750 · Arts & Culture+24 moreVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $25,000 · OtherVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INCTOWN OF JOHNSON — $25,000 · OtherTOWN OF JOHNSONVETS TOWN HALL CORPORATION — $20,000 · OtherVETS TOWN HALL CORPORATIONABENAKI CIRCLE OF COURAGE — $20,000 · OtherABENAKI CIRCLE OF COURAGEBarre Historical Society — $15,000 · OtherGOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT — $15,000 · OtherWINDHAM WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL — $15,000 · OtherVERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC — $15,000 · OtherMERCY CONNECTIONS INC — $15,000 · OtherINTERVALE CENTER INC — $15,000 · OtherRUTLAND COUNTY PRIDE — $15,000 · Other+24 more — $150,525 · Other+24 moreKELLOGG-HUBBARD LIBRARY — $25,000 · EducationKELLOGG-HUBBAR…THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationTHE WOODSTOCK …THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES — $16,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR…FRIENDS OF THE JEUDEVINE LIBRARY INC — $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE…CALEF MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $10,000 · EducationCALEF MEMORIAL…NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER — $10,000 · EducationNORTHWOODS STE…Bixby Memorial Free Library — $7,500 · EducationBENNINGTON FREE LIBRARY — $5,500 · Education+8 more — $40,000 · Education+8 moreVERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementRETREAT FARM LTD — $22,500 · Community ImprovementTHE RICHARD A AND BARBARA W SNELLING CENTER FOR GOVERNMENT INC — $17,500 · Community ImprovementMONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCanaan Naturally Connected Inc — $5,000 · Community ImprovementPride Center of Vermont Inc — $17,500 · Human ServicesELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesRURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesOUT IN THE OPEN INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY — $5,000 · Human ServicesOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $22,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyVERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyRUTH STONE HOUSE — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$552,250Other$345,525Education$154,000Community Improvement$80,000Human Services$57,500Public Safety & Disaster$22,000Philanthropy$20,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $49,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC — $48,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC — $42,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetORLEANS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $30,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER — $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSheldon Art Museum Archaeological and Historical Society Inc — $27,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKELLOGG-HUBBARD LIBRARY — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRETREAT FARM LTD — $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBENNINGTON MUSEUM INC — $22,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM — $22,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $22,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Ethan Allen Homestead Museum — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetPride Center of Vermont Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE RICHARD A AND BARBARA W SNELLING CENTER FOR GOVERNMENT INC — $17,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES — $16,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBarre Historical Society — $15,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetRUTLAND COUNTY PRIDE — $15,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetGOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSTUDIO PLACE ARTS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWeston Community Association Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetVERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetVERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CIVIC STANDARD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMERCY CONNECTIONS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE — $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CIRCUS BARN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALEF MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetRURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF HILDENE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Access Television Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWoodstock History Center Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetJAG PRODUCTIONS COMPANY — $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetChittenden Community Television — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD — $6,250 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT109.6× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Oakland Foundation Inc

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 Vermont Humanities Council 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 210%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • The Dream Program Inc100% of income from government
  • Vermont Folklife Center90% of income from government
  • Elevate Youth Services Inc88% of income from government
  • Friends of the Jeudevine Library Inc85% of income from government
  • Vermont Historical Society51% of income from government
  • Northwoods Stewardship Center40% of income from government
  • Pride Center of Vermont Inc37% of income from government
  • St Albans Historical Society Inc32% of income from government
  • Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc29% of income from government
  • South Hero Library Foundation Inc28% of income from government
  • Ruth Stone House26% of income from government
  • Retreat Farm Ltd25% of income from government
  • Out in the Open Inc25% of income from government
  • Vermont Council On the Arts Inc20% of income from government
  • Vermont Granite Museum of Barre19% of income from government
  • Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc17% of income from government
  • Governor's Institutes of Vermont15% of income from government
  • Green Mountain United Way Inc15% of income from government
  • Solomon Wright Public Library14% of income from government
  • Chittenden Community Television14% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont13% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc13% of income from government
  • Town Hall Theater Inc11% of income from government
  • Kellogg-Hubbard Library10% of income from government
  • Windsor Public Library9% of income from government
  • Clemmons Family Farm Inc9% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc9% of income from government
  • Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium7% of income from government
  • Bennington Free Library3% of income from government
  • Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc2% of income from government
  • St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc2% of income from government
  • Vermont Studio Center Inc2% of income from government
  • Blake Memorial Library Association1% of income from government
  • Dailey Memorial Library1% of income from government
  • The Weston Playhouse Theater0% of income from government
  • Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc0% of income from government
  • Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd0% of income from government
  • Craftsbury Public Library Inc0% of income from government
  • Brandon Free Public Library0% of income from government
  • Bixby Memorial Free Library0% of income from government
  • Migrant Justice Inc0% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation0% of income from government
  • The Woodstock Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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.

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 101 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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