Yardy gives back
Every yard sale and estate sale is a small reversal of the throw-it-away cycle. We want our cut of that to mean something.
Free for buyers and sellers. Always.
Browsing Yardy, searching, favoriting, and getting directions to a sale will always be free. Posting a sale is also free — one listing per month, no credit card. We don't take a cut between buyers and sellers and we don't plan to.
Yardy makes money from two opt-in things: AdSense banners on the web feed, and an optional Pro tier ($4.99/month) for sellers who want unlimited listings. That's it. We'd rather have a small, sustainable revenue base than charge our users for a service that should be free.
The pledge
From the revenue Yardy does generate, a meaningful portion goes back to local Lowcountry conservation and community work. The headline target is wildlife and outdoor habitat in Charleston and the surrounding ACE Basin — the marshes, sea-island forests, longleaf pine, and bird sanctuaries that make this corner of the country what it is.
We're founded in Charleston by people who actually go outside here. The places we love are also under the most development pressure they've faced in fifty years.
We're finalizing the specific percentage and the named partner now. When we publish those, they'll be on this page in plain language — no “up to”, no asterisks, no marketing-team softeners. A real number, a real organization, a real receipt.
Who we're partnering with
Our planned anchor partner is the Charleston Parks Conservancy — the 501(c)(3) that maintains and improves twenty-six city parks and gardens across Charleston, including Hampton Park, the Battery, and Cannon Park. They're funded almost entirely by donations and volunteer hours, and the work shows: planted gardens, restored fountains, community plots that fed thirty-plus families last season. Promoting park growth and upgrades right here in our local neighborhoods is exactly the lane Yardy wants to be in.
Our planned co-partner is Trees Charleston — focused on planting and stewarding urban trees across the peninsula, West Ashley, and James Island. Charleston's tree canopy buffers heat, manages stormwater, and is one of the cheapest, longest-lasting upgrades a city can give its neighborhoods. We want to help fund more of it.
Both partnerships are still being formally signed. The partnership badges and the first donation receipts will land on this page once their development teams have signed off and we've published the final percentage split.
Transparency cadence
Once the partner and percentage are locked, we'll publish a quarterly transparency post on this page: how many Pro subscriptions cleared, how much ad revenue came in, how many dollars went out, who received them, and the receipts. Boring on purpose. Boring builds trust.
Why this and not something else
Two reasons. First, the secondhand economy is fundamentally about keeping things out of landfills — the EPA tracks 11 million tons of textiles alone going to landfill every year in the US, and that's the category that's easiest to measure. Yardy can't take credit for any single ton, but the direction matters: more local resale, less throw-away. Tying real dollars to the Lowcountry environment tightens that loop.
Second, we're local. We were founded in Charleston, our team lives here, our scrapers cover this region first and best, and the wild places around us are not abstractions to us. A national environmental cause would be cleaner branding; a local one is more honest.
The skeptic's notes
Yardy is a small company. The dollars will be meaningful at scale and modest today. We're not pretending otherwise. The commitment is structural — once locked, it'll be baked into the unit economics so it scales with the business — not a marketing campaign that ends when the press release fades. We will publish what we donated, when we donated it, and to whom, every quarter, in plain English.
How to help
Use Yardy. Tell a friend. If you want to do more,
go Pro
— every subscription helps fund the local pledge.
Want to suggest a local nonprofit you think we should evaluate? Email hello@yardy.sale. We read every one.