Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC
HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,875 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($103,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ro Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Regionshared funderslocal
- The Help for People Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 48% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $20k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
80% of HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ro Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchMA · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Regionshared funderslocalMA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you
- The Help for People Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mt Roeschmore Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barrette Family Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James E Robison Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Couch Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Schechter Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Pioneer Valley Incshared fundersMA · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $54k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$54k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC?
- HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,875 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($103,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $149,875 in grants to HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS is the largest funder on record, with $103,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAPPIER VALLEY COMEDY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing