· Public charity
In Our Backyards Inc
Ioby mobilizes neighbors who have good ideas to become powerful civic leaders who plan, fund, and make positive change in their own neighborhoods.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 100 grants below total $1,199,019 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,080,187 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $881,168 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k56 grants · $381k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $760k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAMA SCRAP'S INC | $57,432 |
| THE HUSTLE PRESENTS INC | $48,500 |
| FLAWLESS4YOUTH INC | $31,490 |
| THE MUSIC EDUCATION INITIATIVE | $30,109 |
| NORTHSONG WILD BIRD REHABILITATION | $29,993 |
| DON CONLEY BOXING CLUB | $29,550 |
| SAMHATI BENTONVILLE INC | $29,400 |
| THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $28,374 |
| MEXICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $27,623 |
| ACTION RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE INC | $24,165 |
| PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS | $21,104 |
| PARTICIPANT INC | $19,677 |
| BEYOND THE VILLAGE INC | $19,360 |
| 350 SACRAMENTO | $18,765 |
| LIGHTGRID TECHNOLOGIES INC | $17,999 |
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 (FY17–23, $566k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of In Our Backyards Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2023, 54 since wound down; 69 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $936k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC5× · 2018–2022 · $140k · revenue +153%- THTHE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK5× · 2019–2023 · $115k · revenue +184%
- EMEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION3× · 2017–2019 · $104k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- BUBLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $162k · revenue +189% · 43% of their budget
- BCBeech Community Servicesone grant, 2021 · $104k · revenue -79%
- MFMOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN EL BARRIO INCone grant, 2020 · $69k · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Founded by a group of passionate individuals, CGA champions the cause of economic and cultural equity within our vibrant communities. Since its inception, CGA has committed itself to fostering flourishing neighborhoods, ensuring that every…
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
To enrich the lives of residents, artists, and businesses in utica's new york arts district by fostering creativity, inspiring community engagement, driving technological innovation, and celebrating a sustainable cultural vibrancy.
NOCD-NY is a citywide alliance of cultural networks and community leaders that have joined together to revitalize New York City from the neighborhood up. NOCD-NY came together in 2010 in response to the vision, sustained needs, and…
The Harlem Art''s Foundation''s Mission Is To Showcase And Preserve Harlem''s Tradition Of Rich Culture And Community By Working With Our Local Partners To Strategically Shape The Physical And Social Opportunities Of Our Neighborhood…
Brooklyn Heights Community Garden cultivates healthy community through growing food, intergenerational learning and creative play.
A better way brooklyn, inc. is a new york not-for-profit corporation formed for the purposes of educating the public about transportation issues throughout new york city by promoting community awareness and concerns on construction and…
The battery park city parks conservancy's mission is to manage, maintain, operate, repair, preserve and program activities to a world class standard for the residential parks, open space, and other public structures located on the 92 acre…
The mission of the central baltimore partnership cbp is to galvanize the renaissance of the neighborhoods of central baltimore, creating a diverse, equitable community where everyone can thrive. the organization pursues its mission by…
The arts district community council of la is a 501c3 non profit org made up of a district wide coalition of community stakeholders whose goal is to preserve, protect, enhance the neighborhood which it serves
The mission of PPNA is to nurture diversity and empower residents to work together toward a healthy future for our neighborhood.
Commissions world class public artworks, programming, and events on a project by project basis in partnership with local agencies and organizations that enhance New Havens cultural heritage and diversity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for Public Housing Inc and the most unlike its peers is I Sound Performing Arts Community Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
335 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. 335 of the 457 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MARKET CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Beech Community Services ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN GRAND CENTRAL CORP ↗
- Who funds THE HUUB INC ↗
- Who funds FIREFLY TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC ↗
- Who funds PS20 PARENT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC PS20 CLINTON HILLS PTA ↗
- Who funds EAST ALLEGHENY COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN URBAN GARDEN CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REFRESH COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds THE WYCKOFF HOUSE & ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICKWEED ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX IS BLOOMING ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN EL BARRIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds District of Columbia Arts Center ↗
- Who funds EVLoves LLC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH FOR CHANGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Rocks Past Present and Future ↗
- Who funds WE ARE THE CULTURE CREATORS NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds MAMA SCRAPS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRE ADAPTED BAILEY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds RETHINK FOOD NYC INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds EARTH MATTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH LIBERATION ↗
- Who funds DBA ARTSINC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER IN THE CITY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds CLICK 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: City Parks Foundation Inc · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Sustainable Ct Inc · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc · East 66th Street Services Inc · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Brooklyn Arts Council Inc
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 In Our Backyards 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.
- New Haven - Urban Resources Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Windham Regional Community Council Inc — 76% of income from government
- Click Inc — 44% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Keney Park Sustainability Project — 37% of income from government
- Ridge to Reefs Inc — 33% of income from government
- Solar Youth Inc — 19% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Huub Inc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of the Litchfield Community Greenway Inc — 3% of income from government
- Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc — 1% of income from government
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.