· Public charity
The Yard Foundation Inc
The corporation is organized to provide funding and assistance to firefighters, other first responders and their families suffering from illness, disease or otherwise in need along with supporting other charitable causes
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $45,993 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,123,757 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,077,764 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NJ state FMBA Foundation | $20,000 |
| Baltimore FF W & O | $10,000 |
| Hoosier Burn Camp | $8,025 |
| A Silver Lining Foundation | $7,968 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of your 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.
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.
San francisco firefighters cancer prevention foundation (sffcpf) is committed to the prevention and early detection of cancer and providing access to cutting edge care for active and retired members of the san francisco fire department and…
To provide life and disability insurance for firefighters in the cities of Burlingame, Millbrae and Hillsborough for approximately 9 active and retired members
Raise funds for the local firefighter union
Represent members and local firefighters union.
The Beverly Hills Fire Department Foundation is to support the mental and physical health and preparedness of the Beverly Hills Fire Department and improve the wellbeing of the Beverly Hills community and its firefighters.
Making charitable contributions on behalf of contributing firefighters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Fire Fighters Local 734 Widows and Orphans Charitable Benefit Plan and the most unlike its peers is Silver Lining Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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
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 CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 734 WIDOWS AND ORPHANS CHARITABLE BENEFIT PLAN ↗
- Who funds A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 734 HOLDING COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds NJ STATE FMBA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Professional Firefighters of Bloomington Local 3715 Inc ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER BURN CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT FIREMENS FUND ASSN ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRE DEPARTMENT COFFEE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 The Yard Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nj State Fmba Foundation Inc — 28% 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.
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