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Wyeth Foundation for American Art

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.7M
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.

Arts & Culture$9.7MEducation$2.8MEnvironment$79kSocial Science$60kFood & Nutrition$25kInternational$25kPhilanthropy$25k
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k23 grants · $594k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $468k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.7M
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$316M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM OF ART$1,714,964
FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM$140,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$127,800
HAHS- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION$100,000
BATES COLLEGE$50,000
COLBY COLLEGE$50,000
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION$46,995
THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP$40,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$30,000
BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION$25,000
LONGWOOD GARDENS INC$25,000
JEWISH MUSEUM$25,000
AMERICAS SOCIETY$25,000
AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE WEST$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEARD MUSEUM: $25k → 11%CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $50k → 10%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $30k → 16%BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM OF ART: $2.0M → 6%ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $25k → 11%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 22%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $25k → 10%THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 11%AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE WEST: $25k → 14%THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $40k → 11%FENIMORE ART MUSEUM: $25k → 13%INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK: $25k → 17%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $128k → 14%THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM: $30k → 18%DENVER ART MUSEUM: $50k → 12%SHELBURNE MUSEUM: $250k → 10%HERRING GUT LEANING CENTER: $25k → 11%COLBY COLLEGE: $2.6M → 12%BATES COLLEGE: $50k → 13%BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM OF ART: $1.7M → 6%FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM: $250k → 11%COLBY COLLEGE: $50k → 12%BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM OF ART: $510k → 6%ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN ART: $28k → 14%FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM: $200k → 11%BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM OF ART: $300k → 6%FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM: $150k → 11%BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM OF ART: $128k → 6%HAHS- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $100k → 14%FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM: $140k → 11%BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 6%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $50k → 14%GEORGES RIVER LAND TRUST: $65k → 11%SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM: $135k → 14%COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION: $50k → 17%SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM: $110k → 14%SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM: $73k → 14%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 17%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $139k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $84k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $76k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $62k → 14%COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION: $89k → 17%COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION: $51k → 17%COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION: $51k → 17%COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION: $50k → 17%SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN: $50k → 17%COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION: $47k → 17%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

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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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 24 repeat orgs$2.2M 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 +24% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
72

Total granted

$10M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+24%

Still filing today

79%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $462k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentSocial SciencePhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • BC
    Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art
    6× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +144%
  • The President and Trustees of Colby College
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +22%
  • TW
    THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $740k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SM
    SHELBURNE MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +161%
  • GR
    Georges River Land Trust
    one grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue -8%
  • SN
    SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

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
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
4
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
6
Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…

Arts & Culture
7
The Newark Museum Association

Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.

Arts & Culture
8
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
9
Arnot Art Museum

The arnot art museum is an exhibiting and collecting fine arts museum, accredited by the american association of museums. the museum exhibits its permanent collection of 17th-19th century european paintings and sculpture; 19th century…

Arts & Culture
10
Art Explorium
11
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
12
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Arts CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Jewish Community Organizati…
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 71 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%70%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%88%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/84
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,481

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

83 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. 83 of the 114 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/83
Grantees still filing
57/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $4,749,274 · Arts & CultureBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of ArtTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $740,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INCSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $574,024 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONNational Gallery of Art — $396,500 · Arts & Culture+56 more — $1,853,978 · Arts & Culture+56 moreThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $2,675,000 · EducationThe President and Trustees…+10 more — $232,205 · Education+10 moreCOLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION — $337,052 · OtherCOLLEGE AR…HAHS- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION — $100,000 · OtherHAHS- NATI…BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART — $65,000 · OtherBOWDOIN CO…MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON — $55,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN — $50,000 · OtherCHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 · OtherCOLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART — $40,000 · Other+29 more — $493,169 · Other+29 moreGeorges River Land Trust — $65,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $12,500 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP — $65,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $60,000 · Social ScienceLONGWOOD GARDENS INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAS SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · International
Arts & Culture$8,313,776Education$2,907,205Other$1,190,221Environment$78,500Community Improvement$65,000Social Science$60,000Philanthropy$25,000International$25,000

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 budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $4,749,274 over 6y, 11% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $2,675,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $740,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $574,024 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $396,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $250,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP — $65,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGeorges River Land Trust — $65,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $62,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $56,595 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE — $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHECKSCHER MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFENIMORE ART MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONGWOOD GARDENS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAS SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Terra Foundation for American ArtIL30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Terra Foundation for American Art · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · Greater Hudson Heritage Network · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Alice L Walton Foundation · Ann and Arthur Grey Foundation · The Coby Foundation Ltd · Milton and Sally Avery Arts 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 Wyeth Foundation for American Art 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc38% of income from government
  • Historical Society of Delaware18% of income from government
  • Yale University12% of income from government
  • The Montclair Art Museum11% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc9% of income from government
  • Delaware Art Museum Inc8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society2% of income from government
  • Lexington Historical Society1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Wyeth Foundation for American Art?

Find your warmest path to Wyeth Foundation for American Art 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 114 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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