· Public charity
Humorology Inc
To promote community engagement and philanthropic service through creativity and dedication.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOGAN JAMES HERR FOUNDATION INC | $501,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
To provide children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported one on one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
Raise awareness, fund research grants to find treatments and cure childhood cancer
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Big brothers big sisters is the only prevention program in montana proven to affect a broad range of social issues. program evaluations consistently show that after entering the program, children are less likely to become delinquent, use…
Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.
To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
Rainbow Childcare Inc. is a not for profit child care agency committed to providing quality, affordable, learning-oriented child care to the greater Green County community. We serve the children enrolled at Rainbow Childcare, Inc. and…
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.
To facilitate investigation and prosecution of child abuse perpetrators; provide services to victimized children and families; and educate the community.
To provide a child-friendly, home environment in a safe and natural setting while child abuse victims and their non-offending family members/guardians can receive comprehensive and coordinated services from the agencies comprising the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canopy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Badger Childhood Cancer Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 CANOPY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOGAN JAMES HERR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RISE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Badger Childhood Cancer Network Inc ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · 100 Men of Dane County Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · 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 organization Humorology Inc 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.
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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