Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY INC
HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,100,527 to it, the largest being JOHNSON O'CONNOR RESEARCH SUPPORT CORPORATION ($2,100,527). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 297 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Boston After School & Beyond Inclocal
- The Kavli Foundationportfolio match
- The Grass 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 42% · 2022 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $136k → $175k.
From the IRS filings of HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Boston After School & Beyond InclocalMA · funds 155 organizations near you
- The Kavli Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Grass Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cornell Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carnegie Mellon Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Johns Hopkins Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Feigenbaum Nii Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brown Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Institute for Health Care Mgmt Research & Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Population Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The George Washington Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation · exempt
- Johnson O'Connor Research Support Corp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY 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 HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY INC?
- HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,100,527 to it, the largest being JOHNSON O'CONNOR RESEARCH SUPPORT CORPORATION ($2,100,527). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,100,527 in grants to HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY INC?
- JOHNSON O'CONNOR RESEARCH SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,100,527 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing