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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

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$46k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 6
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$166k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Yard Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$46k75%
FY20236$187k100%
FY20225$80kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$237kHealth$58kHuman Services$10kEmployment$8k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of The Yard Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
California Fire Foundation$75,00011%
Baltimore Fire Fighters Local 734 Widows and Orphans Charitable Benefit Plan$70,000242%
Selfreliance Ukraine$33,3431n/a
A Silver Lining Foundation$26,96314%
Nj State Fmba Foundation Inc$20,00017%
Baltimore Fire Fighters Local 734 Holding Company Inc$20,00016%
Daubert Family Fire Fund$13,3431n/a
Movember Foundation$10,00010%
Professional Firefighters of Bloomington Local 3715 Inc$8,3431n/a
Hoosier Burn Camp Inc$8,02511%
Detroit Firemens Fund Assn$8,00011%
Silver Lining Foundation$7,968110%
Fire Department Coffee Charitable Foundation$7,2511n/a
International Association of Fire Fighters$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

The Yard Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalifornia Fire Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBaltimore Fire Fighters Local 734 Widows and Orphans Charitable Benefit Plan: $70,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetA Silver Lining Foundation: $26,963 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNj State Fmba Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetBaltimore Fire Fighters Local 734 Holding Company Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMovember Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHoosier Burn Camp Inc: $8,025 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDetroit Firemens Fund Assn: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSilver Lining Foundation: $7,968 over 1y, 9.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Yard Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Yard Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Yard Foundation Inc

How much does The Yard Foundation Inc give?
The Yard Foundation Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $45,993, out of $1,123,757 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does The Yard Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (76%), Health (19%), Human Services (3%).
Who are The Yard Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: California Fire Foundation ($75k), Baltimore Fire Fighters Local 734 Widows and Orphans Charitable Benefit Plan ($70k), Selfreliance Ukraine ($33k).
Does The Yard Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Yard Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Yard Foundation Inc based?
The Yard Foundation Inc is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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