Comic Relief (in-universe)

"Comic Relief U.K. uses laughter to fight poverty, injustice, and disaster. Widespread amusement is converted into large quantities of money."

- Albus Dumbledore explaining this organization to wizard readers.

Comic Relief is a British charitable organization devoted to helping the needy, mainly through fundraising via an annual telethon. Sometime before his death in 1997, Albus Dumbledore made arrangements via this organization to have versions of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages published for Muggle readers, with the intention that proceeds from the sales of these books would go towards a fund set up in Harry Potter's name by this organization and J.K. Rowling.