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Woosox Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$123k
Granted FY2024still arriving
77
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$221kPhilanthropy$122kHuman Services$50kYouth Development$43kEducation$18kRecreation & Sports$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kCrime & Legal$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k75 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH$46,288
YMCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$10,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$6,200
MAKE AN IMPACT FOUNDATION INC$5,000
SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION$3,800
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC$2,500
FONTAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$2,250
ROBERTO CLEMENTE FOUNDATION CORP$2,100
LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS ORGANIZATION (LABO)$2,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER$2,000
WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM$2,000
PEDRO MARTINEZ FOUNDATION$1,980
CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC$1,350
HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA INC$1,250
VETERANS INC$1,250
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE METROWEST YMCA: $3k → 8%THE BROOKFIELD INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE INC: $5k → 16%AUDIO JOURNAL INC: $500 → 11%RICK'S PLACE INC: $5k → 17%YMCA OF PAWTUCKET INC: $1k → 14%YMCA OF PAWTUCKET INC: $1k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF BLIND CITIZENS: $300 → 7%YMCA OF PAWTUCKET INC: $800 → 14%METROWEST YMCA: $250 → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $250 → 8%OFFICER RONALD TARENTINO JR CHARITABLE FUND: $1k → 11%OFFICER RONALD TARENTINO JR CHARITABLE FUND: $855 → 11%OFFICER RONALD TARENTINO JR CHARITABLE FUND: $300 → 11%KITS FOR KIDS: $2k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $1k → 16%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $159 → 11%CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC: $2k → 11%CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC: $1k → 11%CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC: $1k → 11%SHE'S LOCAL: $260 → 11%THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $250 → 11%THE WELLSTORM INC: $180 → 11%PAWSITIVELY 4 PINK INC: $3k → 11%NEADS INC: $300 → 11%NEADS INC: $150 → 11%EL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM: $5k → 11%NET OF COMPASSION CORPORATION: $2k → 11%NET OF COMPASSION CORPORATION: $1k → 11%EL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM: $500 → 11%EL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM: $250 → 11%THE UXBRIDGE ELDERLY CONNECTION: $400 → 11%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $800 → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $600 → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $600 → 11%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

NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
MO
KY
NC
FL
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$325k · 46 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
68

Total granted

$325k
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

74%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +62%
  • WM
    WHY ME INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $21k · revenue +7%
  • PM
    PEDRO MARTINEZ FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • UM
    UMASS MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $86k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • JB
    JACK BARRY LITTLE LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
2
Worcester Business Development Corp

The worcester business development corporation (wbdc) is a private, non- profit business organization with a public purpose mission to serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the…

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3
Empower Children for Success

To promote the overall healthy development of children within the north central massachusetts region and worcester county by workingin collaboration with school systems, childcare providers, government agencies and other organizations.

Human Services
4
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
5
Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce

The organization is dedicated to being the leading business organization in central massachusetts by providing valuable membership services and programs and events to its members and in advancing and advocating on behalf of economic…

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6
Worcester Community Cable Access Inc
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7
Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Inc

Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.

Human Services
8
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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9
Worcester Youth Center Inc

To provide services for disadvantaged youth

Youth Development
10
Women's Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

The women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. economically empowers women and girls in greater boston and across the commonwealth through creating and funding high impact leadership and economic programs in partnership with women's and…

Philanthropy
11
Walkboston Inc

Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified
12
Westmass Area Development Corporation

The purposes of the corporation shall be to promote, stimulate, develop, and advance the business prosperity and economic welfare of the western massachusetts region and the citizens thereof, to encourage and assist, through loans,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc; the most unlike its peers is 2GETHER We Eat. 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

99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 152 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/99
Grantees still filing
60/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UMASS MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $86,001 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERUMASS MEMORIAL OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY: $78,528 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPYUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH: $51,288 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTHWHY ME INC: $20,750 · Other+88 more: $157,693 · Other+88 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $32,068 · HealthDana-Farb…ANGEL FUND INC: $3,000 · HealthANGEL FUN…ADVOCATES INC: $3,000 · HealthADVOCATES…RELIANT FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthTHE SHINE INITIATIVE INC: $2,000 · Health+10 more: $6,240 · Health+10 moreEL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM: $5,750 · Human ServicesEL BUEN S…A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE: $5,000 · Human ServicesA FAITH T…Ricks Place Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesRicks Pla…The Brookfield Institute Inc dba HomeFront Strong: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Brook…CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC: $4,450 · Human ServicesCENTRO LA…METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesMETROWEST…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC: $2,800 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…NET OF COMPASSION CORP: $2,500 · Human ServicesNET OF CO…Pawsitively 4 Pink Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesPawsitive…OFFICER RONALD TARENTINO JR CHARITABLE FUND: $2,155 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $2,000 · Human Services+12 more: $5,999 · Human Services+12 morePEDRO MARTINEZ FOUNDATION: $12,930 · PhilanthropyMake an Impact Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $4,400 · PhilanthropyTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyOPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 4 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $900 · Philanthropy+2 more: $750 · PhilanthropyMANNY 267 FOUNDATION: $11,400 · Recreation & SportsCAMP PUTNAM INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $3,700 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION WORCESTER INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $938 · Arts & CultureHEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA INC: $5,250 · Youth DevelopmentBOSTON AREA CHURCH LEAGUE INC: $1,250 · Youth Development2GETHER WE EAT: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUR BRIGHT FUTURE INC: $600 · Youth Development
Other$394,260Health$48,308Human Services$46,154Philanthropy$24,980Recreation & Sports$17,400Arts & Culture$9,138Youth Development$8,100

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 budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $32,068 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHY ME INC: $20,750 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPEDRO MARTINEZ FOUNDATION: $12,930 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMANNY 267 FOUNDATION: $11,400 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSENIOR CONNECTIONS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM: $5,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA INC: $5,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP PUTNAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMake an Impact Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRicks Place Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Brookfield Institute Inc dba HomeFront Strong: $5,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetCENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC: $4,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $4,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $3,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FUND INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMETROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOMORROW FUND: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCATES INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC: $2,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS INC: $2,710 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNET OF COMPASSION CORP: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPawsitively 4 Pink Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFONTAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOFFICER RONALD TARENTINO JR CHARITABLE FUND: $2,155 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetRELIANT FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHINE INITIATIVE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCASA PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASTHMA & ALLERGY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER INC: $1,643 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWORCESTER ACADEMY: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITS FOR KIDS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPRESERVATION WORCESTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORCESTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,320 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBOSTON AREA CHURCH LEAGUE INC: $1,250 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOEY O'DONNELL FOUNDATION TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Greater Worcester Com…Webster Five Foundati…The Fletcher Foundati…Stoddard Charitable T…Ruth H & Warren a Ell…Schwartz Charitable F…United Way of Central…Fallon Community Heal…The Fred Harris Danie…Berkshire Bank Founda…The Health Foundation…The George I Alden Tr…
Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA84× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · The George I Alden Trust

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 Woosox Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woosox Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 460%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Centro Las Americas Inc: 91% of income from government
  • Advocates Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Aids Project Worcester Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Veterans Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Senior Connections Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Pernet Family Health Service Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Our Deaf Survivors Center: 43% of income from government
  • Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
  • Audio Journal Incorporated: 35% of income from government
  • Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Ricks Place Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Brookfield Institute Inc dba HomeFront Strong: 16% of income from government
  • Veterans Legal Services Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Preservation Worcester Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Worcester Historical Museum: 5% of income from government
  • The Sports Museum of New England Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The New England Center for Children Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Worcester: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Common Ground Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity Metrowest- Greater Worcester Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
46get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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 Woosox Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Woosox Foundation Inc 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 152 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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