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Winona Community Foundation

To improve the quality of life in the winona area by educating the public about the practice of philanthropy and its benefits both to donors and to the community, connecting people with charitable intent and resources with organizations and causes that can advance the public good, gathering, preserving, and stewarding philanthropic…

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
70
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$2.0M
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 FY20172024.

Human Services$3.3MEducation$705kRecreation & Sports$423kArts & Culture$415kYouth Development$307kHealth$238kPublic Safety & Disaster$181kReligion$175kOther$0
02FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 70 grants below total $3,696,001 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,076,331 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $380,330 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 $10k22 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $839k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $674k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$13,324
Median grant
9
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES$2,029,222
CITY OF WINONA$148,785
BENEDICTINE FOUNDATION$128,200
HIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER$126,900
SANDBAR STORYTELLING FESTIVAL$75,000
MINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL$70,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER$67,184
SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$58,000
ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$49,100
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA$46,535
HOME & COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC$39,400
ADVOCACY CENTER OF WINONA$37,493
SEMCAC$34,533
WINONA FAMILY YMCA$33,265
COTTER SCHOOLS$31,350
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 (FY17–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEMCAC: $35k → 8%SON MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%SEMCAC: $25k → 8%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $7k → 13%SON MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES: $2.0M → 14%BENEDICTINE FOUNDATION: $128k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $67k → 14%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES: $54k → 14%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $49k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA: $47k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MN: $45k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF WINONA: $32k → 14%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $31k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF WINONA: $28k → 14%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES: $19k → 14%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $16k → 14%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES: $11k → 14%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF WINONA: $8k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MA
IA
OH
PA
CA
TN
NC
GA
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 36 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
29

Total granted

$4.8M
$388k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+11%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $897k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • WV
    WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +48%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +55%
  • ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $167k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • CC
    COCHRANE-FOUNTAIN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    3× · 2018–2022 · $75k
  • RA
    RECREATION ALLIANCE OF WINONA
    one grant, 2019 · $65k
  • T1
    THE 100 MILE CLUB INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -5%

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
Winona Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area

2
Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc

Winona Area Ambulance Service provides advanced emergency medical services and transportation to the Community through excellent patient care, education, and collaborative partnerships.

Health
3
Winnetka Public School Nursery

Preschool serving children ages 2 to 6

Education
4
Winona Education Association

Negotiate teacher contract, represent and promote teacher rights and promote leadership roles

Employment
5
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

6
Westconsin Credit Union

The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…

7
Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.

8
Winona Senior Services Inc

To inspire, recognize, and empower the caregivers in all of us.

Health
9
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

10
Minnesota Waldorf School

Minnesota waldorf school nurtures children's highest capacities of thinking, feeling and willing by cultivating a sense of truth, the power of imagination, and a feeling of responsibility for themselves and the world around them.

Education
11
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
12
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winona Volunteer Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jerry Lee Jarrett Life Center Inc. 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 backsteadyDomestic Violence ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Food PantriesFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterChristian Youth CampsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public Library OperationsAddiction Recovery ServicesSenior Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …School District FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Affordable Housing Construc…Community Arts CentersYmca Youth Development
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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%8%<5yr12%7%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr18%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%4%<5yr12%2%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr16%48%35–55yr18%33%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/154
the rest of the field
10%
3,826/38,835

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

101 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. 101 of the 107 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/101
Grantees still filing
65/101
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC — $2,112,808 · Human ServicesWINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER — $264,968 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROC…SAINT ANNE OF WINONA — $128,200 · Human Services+6 more — $155,997 · Human Services+6 moreWINONA FAMILY YMCA INC — $759,751 · OtherWINONA FAMILY YMCA INCCITY OF WINONA — $333,785 · OtherCITY OF WINONAHIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $126,900 · Other+65 more — $1,220,376 · Other+65 moreST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $167,431 · EducationST MARYS …WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $157,933 · EducationWINONA AR…MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST FOUNDATION — $65,000 · EducationMINNESOTA…Marquette University — $40,000 · EducationMarquette…WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $30,300 · EducationWINONA ST…BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $22,983 · EducationRIDGEWAY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Education+3 more — $27,864 · EducationGREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $103,495 · Arts & CultureSANDBAR STORY TELLING FESTIVAL — $75,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL — $70,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM — $35,100 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL — $29,300 · Arts & CultureWINONA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $16,802 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $30,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE ANGELS GYMNASTICS CLUB INC — $57,045 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc — $30,105 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Greater Knoxville — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMPACT CENTER — $21,200 · Youth DevelopmentGO FAR Inc — $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentGale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Athletic Booster Club Inc — $33,407 · Recreation & SportsTHE 100 MILE CLUB INC — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsGOODVIEW WINONA AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $13,324 · Recreation & SportsHOME AND COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC — $64,327 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$2,661,973Other$2,440,812Education$531,511Arts & Culture$359,697Youth Development$150,350Recreation & Sports$76,731Housing & Shelter$64,327

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 budgetWINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC — $2,112,808 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetWINONA FAMILY YMCA INC — $759,751 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER — $264,968 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $167,431 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $157,933 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetSAINT ANNE OF WINONA — $128,200 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $126,900 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $103,495 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SERVING WINONA COUNTY — $80,790 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetSANDBAR STORY TELLING FESTIVAL — $75,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetMINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL — $70,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $67,184 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHOME AND COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC — $64,327 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSEMCAC — $59,313 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE ANGELS GYMNASTICS CLUB INC — $57,045 over 2y, 20% of budgetADVOCACY CENTER OF WINONA — $55,591 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetBLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES — $54,087 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetMarquette University — $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION - CAMP OLSON — $35,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM — $35,100 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetGale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Athletic Booster Club Inc — $33,407 over 3y, 41% of budgetCOTTER SCHOOLS — $31,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $30,300 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc — $30,105 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetTHE 100 MILE CLUB INC — $30,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWINONA ORC INDUSTRIES INC — $29,686 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMINNESOTA BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL — $29,300 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetWinona Health Foundation — $29,050 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHOMETOWN RESOURCE CENTER — $26,986 over 4y, 16% of budgetGirls on the Run of Greater Knoxville — $25,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetBLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $22,983 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRIDGEWAY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWINONA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $16,802 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOODVIEW WINONA AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $13,324 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetRIDGEWAY COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $12,864 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGO FAR Inc — $11,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAPPLE TREE DENTAL — $10,820 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEURO FOOTBALL INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT FINE — $8,495 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL — $8,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMID WEST MUSIC FEST — $7,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetWINONA COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC — $7,090 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOODLAWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION — $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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 WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
  • Who funds WINONA FAMILY YMCA INC
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER
  • Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
  • Who funds WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SAINT ANNE OF WINONA
  • Who funds HIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SERVING WINONA COUNTY
  • Who funds SANDBAR STORY TELLING FESTIVAL
  • Who funds MINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL
  • Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
  • Who funds MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HOME AND COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC
  • Who funds SEMCAC
  • Who funds BLUE ANGELS GYMNASTICS CLUB INC
  • Who funds ADVOCACY CENTER OF WINONA
  • Who funds BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES
  • Who funds Marquette University
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION - CAMP OLSON
  • Who funds MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Athletic Booster Club Inc
  • Who funds COTTER SCHOOLS
  • Who funds WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc
  • Who funds THE 100 MILE CLUB INC
  • Who funds WINONA ORC INDUSTRIES INC
  • Who funds MINNESOTA BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL
  • Who funds Winona Health Foundation
  • Who funds HOMETOWN RESOURCE CENTER

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.

Slaggie Family FoundationMN66.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Slaggie Family Foundation · Elizabeth Callender King Foundation · Winona Foundation The · Otto Bremer Trust · The Gostomski Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Dare Lamberton White & William F White Foundation · Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc · Rochester Area Foundation · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · United Way of Southeast Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

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 Winona Community 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 · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report 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 107 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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