Oregon · Nonprofit
IN OUR BACKYARD
IN OUR BACKYARD (Oregon) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,064 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($161,750). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $708k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $579k
- Net assets
- $722k
What In Our Backyard does
Mission
The Organization provides support in human trafficking through awareness, education, outreach events, survivor advocacy, legislative advising and engagement of key partners across America.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The purpose of our programs is to take awareness and turn it into action. We accomplish this through training, presentation, legislative advising, prevention education and survivor advocacy. We provide awareness and prevention education to middle and high school students to keep them from being trafficked. We travel the country training and speaking to educate and mobilize the public around human trafficking. We connect survivors to vital services in their process of recovery. We also testify and provide advisement on legislative issues surrounding human trafficking.
$110,570 spent42% of program spendingThe Organization manages a Convenience Stores Against Trafficking program its mission is to engage the industry in the fight against human trafficking. The stores are uniquely positioned to recognize and safely report human trafficking in the communities they serve. The stores serve half the U.S. population every day, have longer hours of operation, and victims have described visiting the stores as part of their daily routines. This program is leading to tangible reports of recovery of victims and increased awareness.
$81,950 spent31% of program spendingIn connection with our year-round anti-trafficking work, the Organization conducts a 10-day anti-trafficking operation surrounding major national sporting events in host cities across America. Each year missing children and victims of trafficking are recovered due to the tips generated from the Organizations work. The purpose of the Organizations work surrounding major national sporting events is to engage with law enforcement, faith and advocacy groups, nonprofits and government agencies in the host city to raise awareness of human trafficking and empower the community with a safe and tangible way to take well-informed, meaningful action to stop human trafficking.
$38,790 spent15% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 34,700, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 The purpose of Freedom Stickers is to bring public awareness and a lifeline of hope to victims of human trafficking. Not only are Freedom Stickers the number one way to increase arrests of traffickers according to research, but they also allow trafficking victims a chance at recovery since a public restroom is one of the only places victims are alone and safe enough to call for help. Freedom Stickers are placed in all states.
$34,700 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $266,010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $449k to $722k (+61%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 12% · 2021 8% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of IN OUR BACKYARD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Cheryl Csiky
Executive director
Board chair
Sherry Schwartz
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $74k → $15k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of IN OUR BACKYARD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
IN OUR BACKYARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 95% · 2019 55% · 2020 58% · 2021 48% · 2022 55% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of IN OUR BACKYARD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
IN OUR BACKYARD draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
IN OUR BACKYARD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like IN OUR BACKYARD
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IN OUR BACKYARD: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds IN OUR BACKYARD?
- IN OUR BACKYARD (Oregon) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,064 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($161,750). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IN OUR BACKYARD have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $579,064 in grants to IN OUR BACKYARD, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IN OUR BACKYARD?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $161,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IN OUR BACKYARD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing