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Westlake Health Foundation at a glance

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Westlake Health 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.

$9.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$18MEducation$15MHuman Services$7.5MArts & Culture$2.8MYouth Development$1.1MHousing & Shelter$701kFood & Nutrition$683kRecreation & Sports$500kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $479k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+8 grants · $5.7M
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$153M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO$1,784,000
MAYWOOD FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION$1,370,000
PRESENCE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$788,000
SUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL$500,000
DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY$400,000
ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS$350,000
SAINT ANN SCHOOL$300,000
LEYDEN FAMILY SERVICE$250,000
NAMI METRO SUBURBAN$225,000
UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO$211,000
LEWIS UNIVERSITY$200,000
WEST COOK COUNTY YOUTH CLUB$180,000
PCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER$150,000
CHICAGO METHODIST SENIOR SERVICES$150,000
PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH$150,000
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 (FY19–25, $6.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MILESTONE INC: $41k → 15%Milestone Inc: $40k → 15%Milestone Inc: $40k → 15%ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $550k → 14%Aspire of Illinois: $500k → 14%ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $350k → 14%Aspire of Illinois: $350k → 14%Aspire of Illinois: $350k → 14%ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $350k → 14%Aspire of Illinois: $150k → 14%Seasons Hospice Foundation: $60k → 14%SEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%SEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%SEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $211k → 14%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $200k → 14%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $200k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $60k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $60k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $50k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $50k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $45k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $40k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $40k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $244k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $130k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $130k → 14%Helping Hand Center: $100k → 14%Helping Hand Center: $100k → 14%Helping Hand Center: $100k → 14%Helping Hand Center: $50k → 14%Helping Hand Center: $50k → 14%ClearBrook: $50k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $68k → 14%Age Options: $50k → 14%Age Options: $50k → 14%Community Support Services: $40k → 14%Community Support Services: $40k → 14%Community Support Services: $40k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $60k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $60k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $50k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $45k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $40k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $40k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $45k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $45k → 14%REAL FOODS COLLECTIVE: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42M · 75 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
22

Total granted

$42M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+25%

Still filing today

71%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DU
    DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +24%
  • MF
    Maywood Fine Arts Association
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +90% · 57% of their budget
  • AO
    ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • FH
    FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $3.6M
  • PH
    PRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    one grant, 2019 · $400k
  • LF
    Leyden Family Service & Mental Health Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +36%
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
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
2
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.

Health
3
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
4
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
5
Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health
6
Mchc Chicago Hospital Council

The mission of mchc chicago hospital council is to foster, promote, support, develop and encourage charitable, educational, scholastic and scientific purposes; promote cooperative effort and action between hospitals and other health care…

Health
7
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
8
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
9
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.

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10
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare

Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
11
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

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12
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Support Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Three Butterflies Sids Foundation Team Taylor. 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

66 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. 66 of the 100 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/66
Grantees still filing
50/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL: $3,645,000 · OtherFENWICK HIGH SCHOOLMaywood Fine Arts Association: $2,665,000 · OtherMaywood Fine Arts AssociationTriton College: $1,088,998 · OtherTriton College+46 more: $7,658,135 · Other+46 moreSUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL D/B/A ACCESS TO CARE: $5,000,000 · HealthSUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNC…Presence Behavioral Health: $3,608,000 · HealthPresence Behavioral HealthNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC: $1,200,000 · HealthNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INCPCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER: $1,190,000 · HealthPCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTERPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $575,000 · HealthRush Oak Park Hospital Inc: $502,214 · Health+12 more: $2,139,500 · Health+12 moreDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,162,000 · EducationDOMINICAN UNIVERSITYLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $2,368,067 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF C…CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO: $800,000 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY C…Lewis University: $450,000 · EducationBenedictine University: $400,000 · Education+1 more: $100,000 · EducationASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $2,600,000 · Human ServicesASPIRE OF ILLINOI…UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $1,353,500 · Human ServicesUNITED CEREBRAL P…HELPING HAND CENTER: $904,044 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND CENT…COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $560,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SUPPORT…SEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $270,000 · Human Services+15 more: $1,574,290 · Human Services+15 moreWEST COOK COUNTY YOUTH CLUB: $472,500 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentIskali: $50,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPARKS FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK: $500,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHOUSING FORWARD: $325,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$15,057,133Health$14,214,714Education$9,280,067Human Services$7,261,834Youth Development$642,500Philanthropy$510,000Housing & Shelter$325,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,162,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL D/B/A ACCESS TO CARE: $5,000,000 over 7y, 50% of budgetPresence Behavioral Health: $3,608,000 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetMaywood Fine Arts Association: $2,665,000 over 7y, 57% of budgetASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $2,600,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $2,368,067 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $1,353,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC: $1,200,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetPCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER: $1,190,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetHELPING HAND CENTER: $904,044 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO: $800,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $575,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $560,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetRush Oak Park Hospital Inc: $502,214 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPARKS FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK: $500,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetWEST COOK COUNTY YOUTH CLUB: $472,500 over 5y, 72% of budgetLewis University: $450,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WEST COOK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS INC: $450,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTHE WAY BACK INN INC: $400,500 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetBenedictine University: $400,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $400,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSHERIDAN CARROLL CHARITABLE WORKS FUND INC: $395,000 over 5y, 85% of budgetOAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $385,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBEDS PLUS INC: $376,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCANDOR HEALTH EDUCATION: $350,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetWellness House: $325,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $325,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $300,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $279,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $270,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetSISTERHOUSE: $205,000 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $203,290 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLeyden Family Service & Mental Health Center: $200,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING): $185,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSARAH'S INN: $180,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetOPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED: $150,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE: $125,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMILESTONE INC: $121,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $110,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPROVISO PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP NFP: $102,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetResurrection University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIREHOUSE DREAM INC: $100,000 over 4y, 16% 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 DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL D/B/A ACCESS TO CARE ↗
  • Who funds Presence Behavioral Health ↗
  • Who funds Maywood Fine Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds NAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC ↗
  • Who funds PCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Rush Oak Park Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARKS FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK ↗
  • Who funds WEST COOK COUNTY YOUTH CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Lewis University ↗
  • Who funds THE WEST COOK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WAY BACK INN INC ↗
  • Who funds Benedictine University ↗
  • Who funds PRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds SHERIDAN CARROLL CHARITABLE WORKS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds OAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BEDS PLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds CANDOR HEALTH EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Wellness House ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Oak Park-River Forest…United Way of Metropo…Healthy Communities F…Community Memorial Fo…George M Eisenberg Fo…The Chicago Community…Good Heart Work Smart…Andrew and Alice Fisc…The Dupage Community …Cme Group Community F…Helen V Brach Foundat…Joseph R & Helen Shak…
Oak Park-River Forest Community FoundationIL48.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Healthy Communities Foundation · Community Memorial Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Dupage Community Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Westlake Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Westlake Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 Westlake Health Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Westlake Health 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 100 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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