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YG2D

EIN 81-5316889 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$192,899
Expenses 2024
$185,725

Program services were 77.1% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 720040

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

Primary exempt purpose

YG2D is a 501(c)3 non-profit brining diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death and dying, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality, with concerts, open mics, workshops for the general population, and programming specific to hospice patients, cancer patients, and our prison community.

  • We host shows, performances and workshops in accordance with our mission. These take the form of small group workshops, open mics, and larger benefit concerts. We held 35 events throughout the year, both online and in person. We served over 4000 individuals through these events throughout the year.

    Expenses $18,910 · Grants $21,276

  • Our Executive Director, Ned Buskirk, is contracted through YG2D by UCSF Art For Recovery program to bring creative writing workshops to cancer patients at UCSF. Ned sees approximately 50 patients per week, roughly 20% are repeat visits, and serves these patients 3 days a week.

    Expenses $50,193 · Grants $50,193

  • Alive Inside is our prison program. We work inside prisons, including San Quentin, Richard J Donovan, and California Men's Colony in California to bring music, creative writing workshops, and performance opportunities to incarcerated individuals. Our Executive Director, Ned Buskirk, is a weekly facilitator for the Light Keepers, a peer support suicide prevention program inside San Quentin. Our team also works with groups of exonerated individuals who were wrongfully convicted, through workshops and retreats with the Ohio Innocence Project. In 2024 we facilitated a program at the annual Innocence Network Conference, and our Alive Inside program served approximately 400 incarcerated or exonerated individuals and their family members.

    Expenses $74,146 · Grants $82,752

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.

  • Peter Edward Buskirk

    CEO and Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $73,985
    Compensation
    $73,985
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Chelsea Coleman

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $27,543
    Compensation
    $27,543
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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
    $192,899
    Expenses
    $185,725
    Contributions
    $121,430
    Grants paid
    $1,300
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $79,721
    Expenses
    $122,725
    Contributions
    $36,305
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $97,755
    Expenses
    $116,321
    Contributions
    $44,652
    Grants paid
    $1,133

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $69,125
    Expenses
    $87,015
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,979

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $68,819
    Expenses
    $71,100
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,899

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.