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Code for Science & Society Inc

Code for science and society, inc.

$4.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Science & Tech$1.9MArts & Culture$1.0MCommunity Improvement$465kSocial Science$146kPublic Benefit$120kEducation$117kEnvironment$40kCivil Rights$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $2,844,158, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,417,332 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,573,174 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.8M
$1,007,652
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DISTRIBUTED AI RESEARCH INSTITUTE$1,070,672
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS$1,007,652
OPENREVIEW$750,000
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC$15,834
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 38% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OPENREVIEW: $750k → 8%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $20k → 9%COMMUNITY INITATIVES: $332k → 10%OPEN COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $26k → 14%OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA PROJECT INC: $20k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $32k → 16%DATA UMBRELLA: $15k → 17%SOFTWARE FREEDOM CONSERVANCY INC: $13k → 20%WORKERS' RIGHTS: $30k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS: $1.0M → 21%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 8%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $16k → 13%THE EQUITY ENGINE: $100k → 17%BOOKS WITHOUT BORDERS: $13k → 20%PUBLIC LAB FOR OPEN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE: $20k → 23%NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC: $146k → 8%COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $19k → 10%OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $42k → 14%SOFTWARE FREEDOM CONSERVANCY: $7k → 20%THE MARCUS A FOSTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $16k → 10%OPEN SOURCE COLLECTIVE: $10k → 14%DISTRIBUTED AI RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1.1M → 10%OPEN COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $19k → 14%OPENSOURCE COLLECTIVE: $9k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
VA
NC
DC
LA
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$509k · 4 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$509k
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationScience & TechPhilanthropyArts & CultureMembership BenefitSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
    2× · 2021–2023 · $350k · revenue +92%
  • OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue -100%
  • SOFTWARE FREEDOM CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • NB
    NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $146k · revenue +12%
  • TE
    THE EQUITY ENGINE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue +23%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Orcid Inc

Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. we provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their…

Education
5
Creative Commons Corporation

Develops legal and technical infrastructure for digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

Education
6
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Center for Open Science Inc

The center for open science (cos) is dedicated to increasing openness, integrity, and reproducibility in scholarly research.

Science & Tech
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Appropedia Foundation 2084. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,070,672 · Science & TechDISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTEOPENREVIEW FOUNDATION: $750,000 · Science & TechOPENREVIEW FOUNDATION+2 more: $39,962 · Science & TechALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $1,007,652 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $350,454 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INI…OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $120,174 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIV…THE EQUITY ENGINE: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $25,728 · OtherMARCUS A FOSTER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $15,700 · OtherDATA UMBRELLA: $15,000 · OtherBOOKS WITHOUT BORDERS: $12,800 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $8,759 · OtherOPEN SOURCE COLLECTIVE: $19,130 · Other+3 more: $17,000 · OtherNATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC: $146,396 · Social ScienceCornell University: $32,492 · EducationPUBLIC LABORATORY FOR OPEN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE INC: $20,000 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $19,870 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $19,259 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $15,834 · EducationWORKER RIGHTS CONSORTIUM INC: $30,000 · Civil Rights
Science & Tech$1,860,634Arts & Culture$1,007,652Philanthropy$470,628Other$214,117Social Science$146,396Education$123,455Civil Rights$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,070,672 over 1y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $350,454 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC: $146,396 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $120,174 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCornell University: $32,492 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKER RIGHTS CONSORTIUM INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC: $20,462 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetPUBLIC LABORATORY FOR OPEN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $19,870 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOFTWARE FREEDOM CONSERVANCY INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $19,259 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN SOURCE COLLECTIVE: $19,130 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $15,834 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $8,759 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPROPEDIA FOUNDATION 2084: $7,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Code for Science & Society Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Code for Science & Society Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 48%
  • National Bureau of Economic Research Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Code for Science & Society Inc?

Find your warmest path to Code for Science & Society Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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