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Yestermorrow Inc

Yestermorrow Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $907,067 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$907k
Net assets
$1.7M
14/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Yestermorrow Inc does

Mission

Yestermorrow design/build school inspires people to create a better, more sustainable world by providing hands-on education that integrates design and craft as a creative, interactive process.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. yestermorrow design/build school teaches over 80 - 100 hands-on courses a year in design, construction, woodworking, and architectural craft and offers a variety of courses concentrating in sustainable design. our workshops, certificate programs and semester programs are taught by top architects, builders, and craftspeople from across the country. for people of all ages and experience levels, from novie to professional.

    $1,239,010 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,239,010.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($848k)2018 Revenue 104 ($1.1M) Expenses 97 ($1.2M) Net assets 89 ($754k)2019 Revenue 98 ($1.1M) Expenses 88 ($1.1M) Net assets 126 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 109 ($1.2M) Expenses 88 ($1.1M) Net assets 146 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 106 ($1.2M) Expenses 73 ($926k) Net assets 173 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 118 ($1.3M) Expenses 104 ($1.3M) Net assets 171 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 156 ($1.7M) Expenses 135 ($1.7M) Net assets 172 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 138 ($1.5M) Expenses 146 ($1.9M) Net assets 132 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 180 ($2.0M) Expenses 147 ($1.9M) Net assets 196 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (180)Expenses (147)Net assets (196)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $1.8M (+28%).

$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.8M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

26% of Yestermorrow Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$168k
’17
−$94k
’18
−$38k
’19
$85k
’20
$245k
’21
−$15k
’22
$6k
’23
−$341k
’24
$117k
’25
3.1
months of
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.

Board chair

Erin O'Keefe

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121212101010131212
Joined·+2+3+2+1+1+4+5+0
No longer listed·23411160
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $73k.

7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Yestermorrow Inc’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

Yestermorrow Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

55%
largest funder
71%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 49% · 2019 81% · 2020 43% · 2021 32% · 2022 74% · 2023 25% — 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

30% of Yestermorrow Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

Yestermorrow Inc draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 12 states in all.

ME
VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
CO
MO
MD
NC
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Yestermorrow Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Yestermorrow Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $259 on record.

State$259
14
15
Top programs
  • Other Purchased Services$259

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Yestermorrow Inc

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 33%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Yestermorrow Inc?
Yestermorrow Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $907,067 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Yestermorrow Inc have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $907,067 in grants to Yestermorrow Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Yestermorrow Inc?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Yestermorrow Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 25 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