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Youth Collaboratory Inc

Youth Collaboratory harnesses the power of the youth services community to innovate, evaluate, and drive effective strategies that assure the safety and well-being of youth and young adults, unlocking their limitless potential.

$334k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$131k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$9.2MHuman Services$1.1MHealth$274kArts & Culture$249kEducation$181kPhilanthropy$100kHousing & Shelter$97k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $187k
$23,291
Median grant
7
States reached
$917k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago$130,739
Lexington Leadership$56,574
Connections Mentor$29,407
BBBS of Flint and Genesee$24,000
LIFT Community Action Agency$23,291
Bolder Options$22,220
BBBS of Southeast Michigan$21,350
BBBS of Connecticut$14,862
Street Soccer USA Bay Area$9,860
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $81k → 11%Catholic Social Services: $39k → 15%Centre County Youth Service Bureau: $67k → 16%Change Happens: $78k → 16%LITTLE DIXIE COMM ACTION AGCY: $79k → 22%LIFT Community Action Agency: $23k → 24%Carolina Youth Development Center: $98k → 12%Youth and Shelter Services Inc: $53k → 17%Indiana Youth Services: $36k → 16%Youth Services Systems Inc: $41k → 15%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY WV: $18k → 18%Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago: $321k → 14%Children's Cabinet: $51k → 10%Amachi Pittsburgh: $45k → 11%Catholic Social Services: $36k → 15%Centre County Youth Service Bureau: $41k → 16%Change Happens: $47k → 16%Little Dixie Community Action Agency Inc: $74k → 22%CAROLINA YOUTH DEV CENTER: $70k → 12%Youth and Shelter Services Inc: $48k → 17%Indiana Youth Services: $32k → 16%Youth Services Systems Inc: $33k → 15%Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago: $227k → 14%Children's Cabinet: $21k → 10%Youth Emergency Services Inc: $54k → 12%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SVCS SCRANTON: $18k → 15%Centre County Youth Service Bureau: $29k → 16%Street Soccer USA Bay Area: $10k → 17%CHANGE HAPPENS: $45k → 16%Little Dixie Community Action Agency Inc: $70k → 22%Youth and Shelter Services Inc: $3k → 17%Indianca Youth Services: $23k → 16%Youth Services Systems Inc: $22k → 15%Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago: $187k → 14%The Children's Cabinet: $18k → 10%Youth Emergency Services Inc: $25k → 12%Change Happens: $32k → 16%LIFT: $52k → 22%Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago: $131k → 14%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $21k → 12%Change Happens: $15k → 16%Little Dixie CommAction Agcy: $47k → 22%Little Dixie Community Action Agency Inc: $14k → 22%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

VT
MT
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 65 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

65 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
4

Total granted

$11M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+33%

Still filing today

88%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • CH
    CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $866k · revenue +14%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED
    6× · 2017–2022 · $440k · revenue +68%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $406k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TNgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue +73%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +33%
  • NG
    NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Manitowoc County Inc

To provide children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported one on one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

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2
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern Ohio

To help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with measurable impact. this is achieved by matching children with adults in mentoring relationships, providing children with companionship…

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3
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.

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4
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Montana

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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5
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Long Island Inc

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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6
Big Brothers - Big Sisters of York County Inc

To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. provides mentoring opportunities to more than 110 youth each year.

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7
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida Inc

To organize, under professional direction, mature and responsible adults to provide, on a volunteer basis, a one to one friendship (mentor) to boys and girls who are deprived of a wholesome relationship with a parent or other surrogate…

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8
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Michigan

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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9
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Heart of Georgia Inc

The mission of big brothers big sisters is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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10
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ba Brunswick

To create and support one to one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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11
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
12
Big Brothers and Big Sisters O

The organization provides quality volunteer and professional contract mentoring services in the black hills area, on a one to one basis for youth with limited parental support to assist them in achieving

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle Inc; the most unlike its peers is Landmarks for Families Inc. 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

67 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. 67 of the 72 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/67
Grantees still filing
45/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS ATHLETICS INC: $596,456 · OtherKANSAS ATHLETICS INCBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $546,765 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN DETROITBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED: $440,001 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPO…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $405,558 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INCGREATER WYOMING BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $392,648 · OtherGREATER WYOMING BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSCity of Longview: $347,521 · OtherCity of LongviewBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI: $174,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS: $173,078 · Other+25 more: $2,085,119 · Other+25 moreCHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $865,550 · Human ServicesCHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHIL…LIFT COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $358,585 · Human ServicesLIFT COMMUNITY ACTION AGENC…THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $219,395 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY…Civic Heart Community Services: $217,937 · Human ServicesCivic Heart Community Servi…Landmarks for Families Inc: $168,667 · Human ServicesLandmarks for Families IncCENTRE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU: $136,925 · Human ServicesAMACHI PITTSBURGH INC: $125,842 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $104,636 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC: $96,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC: $92,170 · Human ServicesINDIANA YOUTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC: $91,310 · Human Services+3 more: $155,246 · Human Services+3 moreBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC: $387,255 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS …BIG BUDDY PROGRAM: $316,186 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BUDDY PROGRAMBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $266,861 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $246,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC: $222,466 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $185,001 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLINT AND GENESEE COUNTY: $112,001 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry: $100,000 · Youth Development+10 more: $575,706 · Youth Development+10 moreLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $249,379 · Arts & CultureBolder Options: $230,407 · EducationCOMPEER ROCHESTER INC: $108,250 · HealthCOMMON GROUND: $57,050 · HealthTAMPA BAY ACADEMY OF HOPE INC: $142,000 · Employment
Other$5,161,646Human Services$2,732,263Youth Development$2,541,476Arts & Culture$249,379Education$230,407Health$165,300Employment$142,000

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 budgetCHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $865,550 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $546,765 over 7y, 12% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED: $440,001 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $405,558 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetGREATER WYOMING BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $392,648 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC: $387,255 over 4y, 14% of budgetLIFT COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $358,585 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BUDDY PROGRAM: $316,186 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $266,861 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $249,379 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $246,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBolder Options: $230,407 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC: $222,466 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $219,395 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCivic Heart Community Services: $217,937 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $185,001 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI: $174,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS: $173,078 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC: $169,591 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc: $168,667 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetINTERACTION INC: $150,767 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTAMPA BAY ACADEMY OF HOPE INC: $142,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetCENTRE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU: $136,925 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $130,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MISSISSIPPI: $127,102 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetAMACHI PITTSBURGH INC: $125,842 over 2y, 11% of budgetBIG BROTHERS & SISTERS OF MISSOULA INC: $119,921 over 2y, 22% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC: $113,631 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLINT AND GENESEE COUNTY: $112,001 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $109,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPEER ROCHESTER INC: $108,250 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $104,636 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry: $100,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC: $98,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER INC: $97,012 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC: $96,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC: $92,170 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINDIANA YOUTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC: $91,310 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $90,364 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHANCES AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH INC: $84,025 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON YOUTH BUREAU YOUTH DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $78,654 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $77,928 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC: $77,399 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $73,882 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $71,383 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION: $70,068 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $67,344 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

Big Brothers Big Sist…Inspire Brands Founda…Tickets for Kids Foun…Enterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …The Gap FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Charles Schwab Founda…Union Pacific Foundat…American Express Foun…Dick's Sporting Goods…Dutch Bros Foundation
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of AmericaFL62.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Tickets for Kids Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Gap Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Charles Schwab Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · American Express Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Dutch Bros 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 Youth Collaboratory Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Youth Collaboratory Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 70%
  • Luk Crisis Center Inc: 95% of income from government
  • Elevate Youth Services Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Interaction Inc: 70% of income from government
  • Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Lift Community Action Agency Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc: 15% of 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)
4rely 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.

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 72 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 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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