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YIMBY ACTION

EIN 81-5140915 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,162,308
Expenses 2024
$1,750,703

Program services were 86.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
S01
Classification
3000
Street
2261 MARKET STREET 10416

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

YIMBY ACTION IS A NON-PROFIT POLICY ADVOCATE ORGANIZATION THAT SEEKS TO PROMOTE SOCIAL WELFARE BY EDUCATING ABOUT AND ADVOCATING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOUSING AND EMPOWERING OTHERS IN THE FORMATION OF SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS.

  • DIRECT AND GRASSROOTS ADVOCACY TO INFLUENCE POLICYMAKING AND GOVERMENTAL ISSUES: YIMBY ACTION LOBBIES STATE AND LOCAL APPOINTED AND ELECTED OFFICIALS ON HOUSING ISSUES, INCLUDING PROPOSED HOUSING LEGISLATION AND THE APPROVAL OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN AT THE PUBLIC MEETINGS OF LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL GOVERMENTAL OFFICIALS. YIMBY ACTION ACTION ALSO ORGANIZES VOLUNTEER HOUSING ADVOCATES TO ATTEND SUCH PUBLIC MEETINGS TO LOBBY LOCAL AND STATE OFFICIALS ON HOUSING ISSUES, CONDUCTS RELATED LETTER/EMAIL-WRITING CAMPAIGNS, SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS, AND OTHERWISE ATTEMPTS TO BRING ABOUT SOLUTIONS TO THE SHORTAGE OF HOUSING NEAR JOBS THROUGH A CHANGE IN THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE AROUND HOUSING.

    Expenses $879,245

  • PUBLIC EDUCATION: YIMBY ACTION PREPARES AND DISTRIBUTES INFORMATION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE LACK OF HOUSING ACROSS THE COUNTRY. PROPOSED LEGISLATION SOLUTIONS AND GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES, AND THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS AROUND HOUSING POLICY. IT DISTRIBUTES ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS/COMMUNICATIONS AND PODCASTS TO SUPPORTERS, HAS SPONSORED AND PARTICIPATED IN PROGRAMS FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS ON HOUSING ISSUES, AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO THE CURRENT HOUSING SHORTAGE. IT ALSO RESPONDS TO PRESS CALLS, DRAFTS AND PLANS PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATIONS PIECES, AND ENGAGES THE PUBLIC THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.

    Expenses $535,192 · Grants $50,000

  • COALITION BUILDING: IN ORDER TO FACILIATE ITS PUBLIC EDUCATION AND GRASSROOTS AND DIRECT LOBBYING EFFORTS, YIMBY ACTION CONNECTS WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS, RECRUITS HOUSING ADVOCATES, AND ORGANIZES COALITIONS OF HOUSING ACTIVISTS TOGETHER WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS. IT ALSO WORKS WITH OTHERS IN THE FORMATION OF SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS. YIMBY ACTION COORDINATES NUMEROUS COLLABORATIVE EVENTS WITH COMMUNITY GROUPS AROUND THE COUNTRY TO BUILD A STRONG COALITION TO FURTHER ITS MISSION.

    Expenses $93,276

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • LAURA FOOTE

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $133,503
    From this org
    $127,363
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,140
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

  • VINCENT WOO

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JEFF FONG

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANTHONY DEDOUSIS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERNEST BROWN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ANDREA CERVONE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RUDY ESPINOZA MURRAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PARAG GUPTA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICK PINKSTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SONJA TRAUSS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $113,895
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $107,485
    Other
    $6,410
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • GILLIAN PRESSMAN

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $141,469
    From this org
    $141,427
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

  • JANE NATOLI

    SF ORGANIZING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $136,796
    From this org
    $129,749
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,047
    Hours/week
    40

  • LEORA ROSS

    CALIFORNIA DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $133,134
    From this org
    $126,538
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,596
    Hours/week
    40

  • AMY KLEIN

    ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $114,382
    From this org
    $107,824
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,558
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,162,308
    Expenses
    $1,750,703
    Contributions
    $2,158,013
    Grants paid
    $50,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,592,988
    Expenses
    $1,399,677
    Contributions
    $1,589,694
    Grants paid
    $100,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,377,797
    Expenses
    $1,094,902
    Contributions
    $1,377,594
    Grants paid
    $55,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,009,693
    Expenses
    $821,235
    Assets (EOY)
    $559,098

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $644,237
    Expenses
    $542,631
    Assets (EOY)
    $379,417

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $419,181
    Expenses
    $193,866
    Assets (EOY)
    $282,783

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $316,445
    Expenses
    $611,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,678

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $316,445
    Expenses
    $611,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,678

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $809,849
    Expenses
    $455,214
    Assets (EOY)
    $355,078

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.