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YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS

YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,667 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($61,340). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$164k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$69k
Net assets
$9k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Yogashield Yoga for First Responders does

Mission

YogaShield Yoga For First Responders delivers job-specific and culturally informed yoga breathwork and nervous system regulation training to first responders and public safety professionals. The organization equips personnel with practical tools to enhance performance process stress and support long-term mental and physical wellbeing.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. YogaShield Yoga For First Responders Instructor School is a multi-day certification program that prepares instructors to deliver YFFRs evidence-based protocol within fire police EMS dispatch and military agencies. In 2025 YFFR continued training instructors to bring job-specific culturally informed yoga breathwork and nervous system regulation practices into public safety agencies nationwide.

    $16,025 spent
    31% of program spending
  2. YogaShield Yoga For First Responders provides digital training through YFFR University and YFFR OnDemand making culturally informed job-specific yoga and nervous system regulation training accessible to first responders anytime and anywhere. In 2025 YFFR continued using its digital platform to deliver structured training in stress processing breath control mindset and performance support for public safety professionals.

    $20,159 spent
    39% of program spending
  3. YogaShield Yoga For First Responders provides in-person training for agencies and public safety personnel through mat classes in-service sessions workshops and on-site training demonstrations. These programs help first responders apply practical tools for nervous system regulation stress processing and performance under pressure.

    $15,880 spent
    31% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,064.

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 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($51k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2018 Revenue 140 ($105k) Expenses 171 ($87k) Net assets 157 ($52k)2019 Revenue 197 ($148k) Expenses 296 ($150k) Net assets 153 ($50k)2020 Revenue 250 ($188k) Expenses 270 ($137k) Net assets 309 ($102k)2021 Revenue 392 ($296k) Expenses 670 ($339k) Net assets 177 ($58k)2022 Revenue 438 ($330k) Expenses 641 ($325k) Net assets 194 ($64k)2023 Revenue 290 ($219k) Expenses 514 ($260k) Net assets 68 ($22k)2024 Revenue 363 ($273k) Expenses 535 ($271k) Net assets 86 ($28k)2025 Revenue 218 ($164k) Expenses 362 ($183k) Net assets 29 ($9k)
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Revenue (218)Expenses (362)Net assets (29)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 2019 to 2020, from $50k to $102k (+103%).

$33k
$52k
$50k
$102k
$58k
$64k
$22k
$28k
$9k
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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

6% of YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
$19k
’18
−$1k
’19
$52k
’20
−$44k
’21
$6k
’22
−$42k
’23
$2k
’24
−$19k
’25
1.3
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.

Chief executive

Olivia Mead

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

20202021202220232024
Listed44444
Joined·+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·1000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $190.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS’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

YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

99% 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 YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS.

89%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 70% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Mexico, across 1 state.

UT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS has grown faster than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.

Federal$6k
grants $0contracts $6k
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$6k

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.

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In New Mexico

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 4 states

IA
CA
CO
NM

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Questions and answers

Who funds YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS?
YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,667 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($61,340). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $68,667 in grants to YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 4 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