New York · Nonprofit
IN OUR BACKYARDS INC
IN OUR BACKYARDS INC (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,489,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,070,952). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What In Our Backyards Inc does
Mission
Ioby mobilizes neighbors who have good ideas to become powerful civic leaders who plan, fund, and make positive change in their own neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Project support: this program comprises all of the services that we provide for projects using the ioby platform. In addition to the use of our website and its tools, project leaders benefit from optional coaching, training and technical assistance from the ioby team in the form of workshops and one-on-one consultations on: project planning and management; match programs; social media and online communications; participation in our digital storytelling project; and, most importantly, grassroots fundraising. This program also includes all aspects of the limited form of fiscal sponsorship that we offer to projects and management of necessary purchasing and/or funds disbursement after projects are fully funded, as well as subsequent reporting.
$2,355,034 spentof which $2,080,187 as grants$129,715 earned by the program67% of program spendingProject outreach & sourcing:this program comprises all of the activities and initiatives we design and manage in order to provide outreach and source new projects that use ioby to connect with potential donors and volunteers. This includes all our on-the-ground organizers that we have in detroit, cleveland, and cincinnati, as well as events and communications to keep donors involved and up to date with projects they have supported. We also host outreach activities to promote the work of our projects to the broader community of interested community activists and neighborhood leaders. We have built strong relationships with hundreds of local community groups and nonprofits across the country, supported thousands of residents shaping their ideas into more than 3,555 projects and since our founding we have directed more than $19m from more than 50,000 donors.
$881,932 spent25% of program spendingOnline platformthis program is the functional heart of our organization and the core of our unique model; it enables most other aspects of our work. We design, build and maintain a web platform (ioby.org) focused on meeting the needs of the project leaders we serve and the donors that support their work. This platform is constantly evolving through iterations and enhanced by feedback from both project leaders and donors.
$283,808 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,520,774.
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 2017 to 2018, from $901k to $2.4M (+171%).
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 5% · 2021 5% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of IN OUR BACKYARDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Erin Barnes
Cofounder & chief executive officer
Board chair
Apollo Gonzales
Board chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $806k → $2.1M.
16 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 BACKYARDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 funders by total. 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 BACKYARDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund IN OUR BACKYARDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 32% · 2019 26% · 2020 31% · 2021 19% · 2022 26% · 2023 37% — growing more concentrated.
“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
30% of IN OUR BACKYARDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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 BACKYARDS INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 BACKYARDS INC has grown faster than half of the 11,412 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,412 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like IN OUR BACKYARDS INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds IN OUR BACKYARDS INC?
- IN OUR BACKYARDS INC (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,489,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,070,952). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IN OUR BACKYARDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $16,489,500 in grants to IN OUR BACKYARDS INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IN OUR BACKYARDS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,070,952 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IN OUR BACKYARDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 85 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing