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Comic Relief Inc Dba Comic Relief US

Comic relief u.s.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$950k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Recreation & Sports$21MYouth Development$16MInternational$12MEducation$11MFood & Nutrition$10MHuman Services$9.2MPhilanthropy$5.4MEmployment$2.7MHousing & Shelter$1.7MOther$57M
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $3,665,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,703,350 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,038,350 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.6M
$510,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY YEAR INC$950,000
LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION$650,000
START EARLY$600,000
THE CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND$510,000
JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC$500,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$400,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$48,000
YOUTH OUTRIGHT WNC INC$7,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $9.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE CONCILIO: $210k → 14%LATINO MEMPHIS INC: $210k → 17%SISTERSONG INC: $315k → 13%Covenant House: $1.5M → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1.1M → 17%Covenant House: $1.0M → 17%Covenant House: $1.0M → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $915k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $815k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $810k → 17%Charity Water: $1.1M → 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

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $7.0M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$5.2M · 73% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

South Asia$864k · 12% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$700k · 10% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

Central America and the Caribbean$200k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

Middle East and North Africa$96k · 1% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

South America$7k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$132M · 28 repeat orgs$8.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
13

Total granted

$132M
$8.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-17%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • LS
    LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +103% · 98% of their budget
  • CITY YEAR INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +15%
  • START EARLY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $15M · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • GA
    GAVI ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2017 · $5.0M · revenue +9%
  • CHARITY GLOBAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.1M · revenue +36%
  • FP
    FILANTROPIA PUERTO RICO INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -73%

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.

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Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
Global Ties Us

Global ties u.s. (global ties) powers individuals, communities, and nations to build trust and advance peace and prosperity through international exchange.

International
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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5
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
6
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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9
Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose Inc

Chief executives for corporate purpose (cecp) is the only business counsel and network dedicated to driving measurable returns on purpose. we promote responsible purpose-driven business as it increases customer loyalty, builds employee…

Philanthropy
10
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
11
Upwardly Global

Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.

Employment
12
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Children and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global 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 FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyLgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Local Food System Organizat…Immigrant Worker SupportYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesYouth Development Centers
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%7%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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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

49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Children's Health Fund — $20,761,000 · OtherThe Children's Health FundCITY YEAR INC — $15,486,120 · OtherCITY YEAR INCSTART EARLY — $14,954,800 · OtherSTART EARLYUNIDOSUS — $3,062,250 · Other+17 more — $12,394,210 · Other+17 moreLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA — $20,947,641 · Recreation & SportsLAUREUS SPORT FO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $13,688,850 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS…THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC — $1,530,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BROTHERH…+2 more — $670,000 · Youth DevelopmentGAVI ALLIANCE — $5,000,000 · InternationalGAVI ALLI…Save The Children Federation Inc — $4,670,415 · InternationalSave The …THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $1,000,000 · InternationalTHE ROTAR…OXFAM-AMERICA INC — $800,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AME…+3 more — $369,000 · InternationalCODEPATHORG — $3,400,000 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $2,608,000 · EducationGENESYS WORKS — $1,800,000 · EducationCODED BY — $1,500,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $630,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $620,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN INC — $450,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $400,000 · EducationFeeding America — $9,866,920 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $210,000 · Food & NutritionCOVENANT HOUSE — $7,152,470 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $1,100,000 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INC — $315,000 · Human Services+3 more — $620,000 · Human Services
Other$66,658,380Recreation & Sports$20,947,641Youth Development$15,888,850International$11,839,415Education$11,408,000Food & Nutrition$10,076,920Human Services$9,187,470

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA — $20,947,641 over 8y, 98% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund — $20,761,000 over 8y, 52% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $15,486,120 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSTART EARLY — $14,954,800 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $13,688,850 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetFeeding America — $9,866,920 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $7,152,470 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $4,670,415 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCODEPATHORG — $3,400,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNIDOSUS — $3,062,250 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $2,608,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetGENESYS WORKS — $1,800,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $1,705,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $1,650,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC — $1,530,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetCODED BY — $1,500,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetPUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,390,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetYouth Design Center Inc — $1,050,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $800,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust — $745,480 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN — $727,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE BORIS LAWRENCE HENSON FOUNDATION — $652,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $630,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $630,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $630,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $620,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetStructured Employment Economic Development Corporation — $551,750 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $513,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $485,480 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $450,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC — $420,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $400,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSISTERSONG INC — $315,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALIMA USA INC — $305,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGIRLS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONCILIO — $210,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLATINO MEMPHIS INC — $210,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGROW DAT YOUTH FARM — $210,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) — $32,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $32,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH OUTRIGHT WNC INC — $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Rockefeller Philanthr…Silicon Valley Commun…Tides FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…ImpactassetsincThe Kresge FoundationConrad N Hilton Found…The Yelp FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationThe Ford FoundationNetwork for GoodVanguard Charitable E…
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors IncNY15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Impactassetsinc · The Kresge Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Comic Relief Inc Dba Comic Relief US 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%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report 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, 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.

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 49 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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