Minnesota · Public charity
Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation
To improve the quality of life for individuals and families affected by brain tumors. We do this through funding, cutting-edge research, offering meaningful support, and raising awareness.
- $460k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 6
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $157k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $445k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $585k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $380k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $301k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $230k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $689,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Brain Tumor Association | $550,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Gilda's Club Twin Cities Inc | $234,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Children's Health Care | $175,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pinky Swear Foundation | $174,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Angel Foundation | $89,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Children's Health Care Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Allina Health System | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation
- How much does Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation give?
- Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $460,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (96%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: University of Minnesota Foundation ($689k), American Brain Tumor Association ($550k), Gilda's Club Twin Cities Inc ($234k).
- Does Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
- Where is Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation based?
- Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation is based in MN.
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