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HUMOR TO FIGHT THE TUMOR FOUNDATION
Humor to fight the tumor is dedicated to funding research and patient services that will improve the lives of brain tumor patients.
$735k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
2
Communities
$220k
Largest
01What you fund
0177% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Health$748kEducation$674kHuman Services$74kOther$450k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
allina healthgoing thruthru tumorshealth caremedical
2022
dealing tumors
2023
dealing tumors
2024
medicalcancerfinancialeducation
2025
emergency financialcollaborationadvance
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $695k
$150,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$220,000
- CHILDREN'S MINNESOTA$175,000
- MAYO CLINICS$150,000
- AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION$150,000
- ANGEL FOUNDATION$20,000
- PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
04
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 (FY21–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 6 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
1
Total granted
$1.8M
$15k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+29%
+39%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $674k · revenue +67%
AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +16%- MCMAYO CLINICS4× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- AHALLIANA HEALTH SYSTEMS DBA ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +39%
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
Avera Health
Promotion of health
Health
2
Unmc Physicians
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.
Health
3
SwedishAmerican Hospital
Through excellence in healthcare and compassionate service, we care for our community.
Health
4
Mercy Health
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
Health
5
Stanford Health Care
Health
6
Swedish Covenant Health
Swedish Covenant Health follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
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7
Affinia Healthcare
To provide high quality healthcare and exceptional service, while promoting healthy lifestyles.
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8
Astera Health
Astera health is committed to improving the health of the communities we serve.
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9
Adena Health System
The reporting organization is a regional healthcare system with one hospital and several ambulatory centers, in addition to multiple physician practices. ahs offers a wide scope of diagnostic and rehabilitative services both for inpatients…
Health
10
Tufts Medical Center Physicians
The tufts medical center physicians organization, inc. coordinates the administrative and billing activities for the group practices in their mission of providing quality health care services to patients of tufts medical center, inc. and…
Health
11
Children's Hospital of Michigan
To support pediatric research, education, community benefit programs, and other (see sch o) initiatives to improve the health of children in michigan.
Health
12
Banner Medical Group
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier, so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Angel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Allina Health System. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$748,000Education$674,000Other$450,000Human Services$74,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINICS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANA HEALTH SYSTEMS DBA ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL ↗
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.
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation HUMOR TO FIGHT THE TUMOR 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 204265823 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on GILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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