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YES IN MY BACK YARD

EIN 32-0610451 OAKLAND, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,355,788
Expenses 2024
$2,680,165

Program services were 85.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L80
Classification
1200
Street
484 LAKE PARK AVENUE SUITE 661

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

TO END THE HOUSING SHORTAGE AND ACHIEVE AFFORDABLE, SUSTAINABLE, AND EQUITABLE HOUSING FOR ALL.

  • 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.

    Expenses $2,279,437 · Grants $1,109,492

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Sonja Trauss

    PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DI

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

  • Vikrum Aiyer

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Vincent Woo

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Dan Alban

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ernest Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Laura Foote

    DIRECTOR

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

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
    $2,355,788
    Expenses
    $2,680,165
    Contributions
    $2,325,024
    Grants paid
    $1,109,492
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,142,646
    Expenses
    $2,028,767
    Contributions
    $2,107,429
    Grants paid
    $824,996
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,142,646
    Expenses
    $2,028,767
    Contributions
    $2,107,429
    Grants paid
    $824,996
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,080,931
    Expenses
    $1,376,460
    Contributions
    $2,080,187
    Grants paid
    $155,593

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
    $1,071,226
    Expenses
    $947,837
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,083,823

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,251,369
    Expenses
    $390,827
    Assets (EOY)
    $884,218

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $27,767
    Expenses
    $32,336
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,431

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

  • YIMBY ACTION

    $1,084,492

    2024 YIMBY ACTION IS A NON-PROFIT POLICY ADVOCATE ORGANIZATION

  • YIMBY ACTION

    $824,996

    2023 YIMBY ACTION IS A NON-PROFIT POLICY ADVOCATE ORGANIZATION

  • YIMBY ACTION

    $155,593

    2022 YIMBY ACTION IS A NON-PROFIT POLICY ADVOCATE ORGANIZATION THAT SEEKSTO PROMOTE SOCIAL WELFARE BY EDUCATING ABOUT AND ADVOCATING FOR THECONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOUSING AND EMPOWERING OTHERS IN THE FORMATION OFSIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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.