California · Nonprofit
YES IN MY BACK YARD
YES IN MY BACK YARD (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,079,467 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,507,867). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Yes in My Back Yard does
Mission
To end the housing shortage and achieve affordable, sustainable, and equitable housing for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Yes in My Back Yard and our project yimby law review public records to identify cities that may be violating housing laws. We then inform cities of the possible violations, and, if necessary, file litigation to ensure cities follow the law and housing is built. We train people to effectively advocate for abundant, affordable housing in their neighborhoods. We host events, share housing policy research and insights, and develop resources advocates can directly use in their communities to influence local elected officials, planning commissions, and their neighbors to support more homes. We often partner with yimby action to create and disseminate these resources. Advocates gather insights from their work in their communities and share those insights with legislators and state agencies. This helps inform improvements to existing housing laws with the goal of making them more effective at getting more homes built faster, especially in neighborhoods with plenty of amenities such as high-paying jobs and high-quality schools.
$2,279,437 spentof which $1,109,492 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,279,437.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $20k to $884k (+4228%).
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.
99% of YES IN MY BACK YARD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $340k → $2.0M.
18 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 YES IN MY BACK YARD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
YES IN MY BACK YARD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% 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 YES IN MY BACK YARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 29% · 2021 53% · 2022 49% · 2023 36% — 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
80% of YES IN MY BACK YARD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
64% of YES IN MY BACK YARD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.5M that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
YES IN MY BACK YARD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like YES IN MY BACK YARD
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Yimby Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YES IN MY BACK YARD: 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 YES IN MY BACK YARD?
- YES IN MY BACK YARD (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,079,467 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,507,867). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YES IN MY BACK YARD have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $7,079,467 in grants to YES IN MY BACK YARD, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YES IN MY BACK YARD?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,507,867 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YES IN MY BACK YARD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 37 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