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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 FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $45,993, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,123,757 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,077,764 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$166k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NJ state FMBA Foundation$20,000
Baltimore FF W & O$10,000
Hoosier Burn Camp$8,025
A Silver Lining Foundation$7,968
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Daubert Family Fire Fund: $13k → 15%California Fire Foundation: $75k → 12%Movember US: $10k → 14%Detroit Firemen's Fund: $8k → 21%Bloomington Metropolitan Local 586: $8k → 18%Hoosier Burn Camp: $8k → 19%Twinsburg FireFighters Local: $5k → 13%A Silver Lining Foundation: $8k → 14%Startengine Fire Dept Coffee: $7k → 15%NJ state FMBA Foundation: $20k → 10%Local 734 Widows and Orphans Fund: $60k → 19%Selfreliance Ukraine: $33k → 14%Baltimore Firefighters: $20k → 19%A Silver Lining Foundation: $27k → 14%Baltimore FF W & O: $10k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Firemen's Relief Fund
Public Safety & Disaster
2
San Francisco Fire Fighters Cancer Prevention Foundation

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…

Health
3
Central County Firefighters Fund

To provide life and disability insurance for firefighters in the cities of Burlingame, Millbrae and Hillsborough for approximately 9 active and retired members

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4
National Historical Fire Foundation
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5
Minneapolis Fire Foundation
Education
6
International Association of Fire L0734 Baltimore

Represent members and local firefighters union.

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7
Fire
Human Services
8
Garfield County Fire Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
9
South Bend Firefighters Associationinc

Raise funds for the local firefighter union

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Beverly Hills Fire Department Foundation

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.

Human Services
11
Portland Firefighters Charitable Fund

Making charitable contributions on behalf of contributing firefighters.

Philanthropy
12
Arlington Heights Firefighters Benevolent Association
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Fire Fighters Local 734 Widows and Orphans Charitable Benefit Plan; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATIONBALTIMORE FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 734 WIDOWS AND ORPHANS CHARITABLE BENEFIT PLAN: $70,000 · OtherBALTIMORE FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 734 WIDOWS AND ORPHANS CHARITABLE BENEFIT PLANSelfreliance Ukraine: $33,343 · OtherSelfreliance UkraineBALTIMORE FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 734 HOLDING COMPANY INC: $20,000 · OtherBALTIMORE FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 734 HOLDING COMPANY INCDaubert Family Fire Fund: $13,343 · OtherDaubert Family Fire FundDETROIT FIREMENS FUND ASSN: $8,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherA SILVER LINING FOUNDATION: $26,963 · HealthA SILVER LINING …MOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUNDAT…HOOSIER BURN CAMP INC: $8,025 · HealthHOOSIER BURN CAM…NJ STATE FMBA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationProfessional Firefighters of Bloomington Local 3715 Inc: $8,343 · EmploymentSILVER LINING FOUNDATION: $7,968 · PhilanthropyFIRE DEPARTMENT COFFEE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7,251 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$224,686Health$44,988Education$20,000Employment$8,343Philanthropy$7,968Public Safety & Disaster$7,251

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Yard Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Yard Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Nj State Fmba Foundation Inc: 28% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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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