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Wyoming Governor's Residence Foundation

To enhance the wyoming governor's residence and support the initiatives of the first spouse.

$774k
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$206kEducation$93kYouth Development$83kHousing & Shelter$35kHuman Services$23kReligion$12kCommunity Improvement$6k
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 56 grants below total $473,068 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $774,321 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $301,253 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 $10k46 grants · $333k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $140k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WYOMING VETERANS COMMISSION TRUST FUND$30,000
FOOD BANK SWEETWATER COUNTY$21,200
WRIGHT COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE$12,250
ELEMENT CHURCH$11,600
PINEDALE COMMUNITY FOOD BASKET$11,420
JACKSON CUPBOARD$11,000
ROOTED IN WYOMING$11,000
POWELL SENIOR CITIZENS$10,750
LARAMIE CONNECTIONS CENTER$10,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SWEETWATER CO$10,000
THE FOOD GROUP$9,548
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DOUGLAS$9,500
LARAMIE INTERFAITH$9,500
NEEDS INC$9,484
WYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT$9,200
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 (FY20–24, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CODY COUNCIL OF AGING INC: $9k → 11%WASHAKIE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $6k → 11%VALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE: $8k → 12%SOUTH BIG HORN COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $6k → 14%NIOBRARA SENIOR CENTER INC: $12k → 16%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $10k → 11%NIOBRARA SENIOR CENTER INC: $6k → 16%FEEDING LARAMIE VALLEY: $7k → 17%FIRST STOP HELP CENTER: $7k → 17%FIRST STOP HELP CENTER: $7k → 17%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK-GILLETTE: $7k → 9%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK-GILLETTE: $6k → 9%THE HUB ON SMITH: $8k → 10%CODY COUNCIL OF AGING INC: $6k → 11%CARBON COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%THAYNE SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 8%POWELL SENIOR CITIZENS: $11k → 11%NEEDS INC: $10k → 10%NEEDS INC: $9k → 10%LARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN: $9k → 17%LARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN: $7k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHEYENNE: $9k → 10%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $7k → 11%LARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN: $7k → 17%LARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN: $6k → 17%NEEDS INC: $7k → 10%FEEDING LARAMIE VALLEY: $6k → 17%FEEDING LARAMIE VALLEY: $6k → 17%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $6k → 11%NEEDS INC: $5k → 10%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHEYENNE: $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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 42 repeat orgs$476k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
27

Total granted

$1.1M
$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+23%

Still filing today

64%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k 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
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentReligionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AF
    Afton Food Pantry
    4× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +18%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SWEETWATER COUNTY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $29k · revenue +39%
  • LS
    LARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN
    4× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +801%

Funded once

  • AC
    ALBANY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1
    one grant, 2021 · $49k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    one grant, 2020 · $46k · revenue +23%
  • NC
    NIOBRARA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $21k

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
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
2
Wyoming County Food Pantry Inc

Collection and distribution of food to those in need throughout the county.

Human Services
3
South County Community Food Bank

Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county

Food & Nutrition
4
Big Timber Community Food Bank

Area food bank distributions

Food & Nutrition
5
Foothills Food Bank

The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

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6
Cumby Food Pantry

food pantry

Food & Nutrition
7
Jessamine Co Food Pantry

We provide food (free of charge) to our community neighbors (jessamine co. ky) who are in need.

Food & Nutrition
8
Bread of Life Community Services
Food & Nutrition
9
Browns Valley Food Shelf Inc
Food & Nutrition
10
Sherman County Senior Center Inc

To offer a nutrition program for older persons.

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11
Northern Cheyenne Food Pantry

To ensure the most vulnerable and at-risk families on the northern cheyenne reservation are safe and have their basic needs take care of by the distribution of food

Food & Nutrition
12
Waste Not Want Not Community Kitchen Inc

Using community resources such as volunteer labor, donated foods, goods and money, the group provides a wholesome free meal once a week to those in need. WNWN also provides emergency food and necessities during the rest of the week as…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of Sweetwater County and the most unlike its peers is Valley Village Childcare. 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 backsteadyPublic Library FoundationsYouth Mentoring Organizatio…Food Assistance & Basic Nee…Western History MuseumsEarly Childhood Education a…Community Development Organ…Youth Competitive Sports Le…
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 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%9%<5yr13%11%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr13%14%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr15%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%6%<5yr13%8%5–10yr18%31%10–20yr13%17%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr15%11%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/92
the rest of the field
11%
466/4,286

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

53 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 92 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)
48/53
Grantees still filing
31/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WYOMING GAME & FISH DEPARTMENT — $115,739 · OtherWYOMING GAME & FISH DEPARTMENTTHE SALVATION ARMY — $82,079 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYALBANY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 — $48,673 · OtherALBANY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1LARAMIE INTERFAITH — $40,075 · OtherLARAMIE INTERFAITHELEMENT CHURCH — $32,414 · OtherTHE CODY CUPBOARD — $28,820 · Other+39 more — $381,011 · Other+39 moreFOOD BANK OF SWEETWATER COUNTY — $77,898 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF SWEETWATER COU…WYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT PROJECT — $49,460 · Food & NutritionWYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT PR…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $45,640 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESAfton Food Pantry — $34,191 · Food & NutritionAfton Food PantryEDIBLE PRAIRIE PROJECT — $26,045 · Food & NutritionEDIBLE PRAIRIE PROJECTTHE FOOD GROUP INC — $25,398 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD GROUP INCPINEDALE COMMUNITY FOOD BASKET INC — $24,102 · Food & NutritionPINEDALE COMMUNITY FOOD BAS…FRIDAY FOOD BAG FOUNDATION — $19,107 · Food & NutritionGUERNSEY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $17,200 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEYENNE INC — $17,000 · Food & NutritionTHAYNE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $15,323 · Food & NutritionLANDER CARE AND SHARE FOOD BANK — $13,500 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $16,850 · Food & NutritionNEEDS INC — $31,197 · Human ServicesNEEDS INCLARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN — $28,594 · Human ServicesLARAMIE SOUP KIT…Action Resources International — $18,907 · Human ServicesAction Resources…NIOBRARA SENIOR CENTER INC — $17,550 · Human ServicesNIOBRARA SENIOR …Joshuas Storehouse and Distribution Center — $15,050 · Human ServicesJoshuas Storehou…CODY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $14,250 · Human ServicesCODY COUNCIL ON …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING INC — $14,150 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS C…FIRST STOP HELP CENTER — $13,845 · Human ServicesFIRST STOP HELP …BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $12,343 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A B…POWELL SENIOR CITIZENS AGO-GO — $10,750 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL — $7,938 · Human ServicesVALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE — $7,500 · Human Services+5 more — $29,835 · Human Services+5 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SWEETWATER COUNTY — $29,300 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming — $26,279 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Douglas — $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CARBON CO — $5,948 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMPBELL CO — $5,550 · Youth DevelopmentWyoming Rescue Mission — $23,250 · Housing & ShelterGOSHEN HELP — $10,950 · Housing & ShelterCOMEA INC — $7,000 · Housing & ShelterGOOD SAMARITAN MISSION — $6,350 · Housing & ShelterCASPER HOUSING AUTHORITY CARES — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION FOR NATIONS INC — $24,544 · ReligionMOORCROFT INTERFAITH COMMUNITY — $13,750 · ReligionLARAMIE CONNECTIONS CENTER — $10,500 · ReligionCOUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICES — $21,200 · Community ImprovementCOUNCIL OF COUNTY SERVICES — $5,500 · Community ImprovementROOTED IN WYOMING — $11,000 · Education
Other$728,811Food & Nutrition$381,714Human Services$221,909Youth Development$76,577Housing & Shelter$53,550Religion$48,794Community Improvement$26,700Education$11,000

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 budgetFOOD BANK OF SWEETWATER COUNTY — $77,898 over 5y, 11% of budgetWYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT PROJECT — $49,460 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $45,640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLARAMIE INTERFAITH — $40,075 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAfton Food Pantry — $34,191 over 4y, 12% of budgetNEEDS INC — $31,197 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SWEETWATER COUNTY — $29,300 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CODY CUPBOARD — $28,820 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetLARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN — $28,594 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming — $26,279 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEDIBLE PRAIRIE PROJECT — $26,045 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTHE FOOD GROUP INC — $25,398 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR NATIONS INC — $24,544 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPINEDALE COMMUNITY FOOD BASKET INC — $24,102 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWyoming Rescue Mission — $23,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICES — $21,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIDAY FOOD BAG FOUNDATION — $19,107 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetAction Resources International — $18,907 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNIOBRARA SENIOR CENTER INC — $17,550 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetGUERNSEY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $17,200 over 3y, 14% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEYENNE INC — $17,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHAYNE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $15,323 over 2y, 10% of budgetJoshuas Storehouse and Distribution Center — $15,050 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCODY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $14,250 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING INC — $14,150 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST STOP HELP CENTER — $13,845 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetMOORCROFT INTERFAITH COMMUNITY — $13,750 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLANDER CARE AND SHARE FOOD BANK — $13,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $12,343 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWRIGHT COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE — $12,250 over 1y, 13% of budgetROOTED IN WYOMING — $11,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGOSHEN HELP — $10,950 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHole Food Rescue — $10,850 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPOWELL SENIOR CITIZENS AGO-GO — $10,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLARAMIE CONNECTIONS CENTER — $10,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Douglas — $9,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL — $7,938 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE — $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOMEA INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MISSION — $6,350 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWASHAKIE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $6,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTH BIG HORN SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $6,100 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCASPER HOUSING AUTHORITY CARES — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CARBON CO — $5,948 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMPBELL CO — $5,550 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLARAMIE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARBON COUNTY SENIOR SERVICE — $5,450 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Wyoming Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Wyoming Assn of Non P…Hughes Charitable Fou…The John P Ellbogen F…Daniels FundWestern States Learni…The Andrew Allen Char…Pacificorp Foundation…United Way of Natrona…Hughes Charitable Fou…Joannides Family Foun…
Wyoming Community FoundationWY83.4× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Hughes Charitable Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Daniels Fund · Western States Learning Corporation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · United Way of Natrona County · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Joannides Family 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 Wyoming Governor's Residence 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

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    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wyoming Governor's Residence Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wyoming Governor's Residence 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 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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