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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 you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202025.

Science & Tech$1.9MArts & Culture$1.0MPhilanthropy$471kSocial Science$146kEducation$123kCivil Rights$30kMembership Benefit$19kHuman Services$7kOther$188k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $2,844,158 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,417,332 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,573,174 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised 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

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

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

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
VA
NC
DC
LA
GA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you 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%
+19%

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

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%49%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 49% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,540

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Code for Science & Society Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 48%
  • National Bureau of Economic Research Inc48% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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