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Coded by Kids

Coded by uses project-based education and mentorship to equip underserved and underrepresented youth with the skills and support needed to succeed in a tech-driven society.

$390k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES$100,000
HOPEWORKS CAMDEN$50,000
LAUNCHCODE$50,000
BUILDING 21$50,000
COMMUNITY OF SCHOOLS IN PHILADELPHI$50,000
PER SCHOLAS$50,000
NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSH$20,000
U SCHOOL INC$10,000
MOM YOUR BUSINESS$10,000
02The need
02

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 (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%BUILDING 21: $50k → 7%U SCHOOL INC: $10k → 22%NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSH: $20k → 17%PER SCHOLAS: $50k → 28%LAUNCHCODE: $50k → 21%HOPEWORKS CAMDEN: $50k → 12%PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES: $100k → 22%MOM YOUR BUSINESS: $10k → 22%COMMUNITY OF SCHOOLS IN PHILADELPHI: $50k → 22%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.

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 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
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
2
Inroads Inc

To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.

Education
3
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…

Youth Development
4
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
5
Heights Philadelphia

Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…

Education
6
Activate Work Inc

We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.

Human Services
7
Future Founders Foundation

Future founders is building the nation's largest inclusive community of intentional young entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial-minded leaders.

Education
8
YouthBuild Newark Inc

To harness the intelligence and positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their community and their lives.

Youth Development
9
Sparknc

Sparknc empowers students to discover careers in high-tech fields like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, software development and computer systems engineering. we help schools move away from traditional classes…

Education
10
Launch High School

Empowering graduates with academic and entrepreneurial knowledge as well as skills and resources, so they can create and capitalize on opportunities in pursuit of their passions towards social and economic prosperity.

11
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
12
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc

Founded in 1963, SEO closes educational and career opportunity gaps for 7,000+ ambitious young people annually.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Academies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mom Your Business. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC — $100,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INCBUILDING 21 — $50,000 · EducationBUILDING 21HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC — $50,000 · EducationHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INCCommunities in Schools of Philadelphia Inc — $50,000 · EducationCommunities in Schools of Philadelphia IncTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATIONPER SCHOLAS INC — $50,000 · EmploymentPER SCHOLAS IN…NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentU SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherMOM YOUR BUSINESS — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Education$300,000Employment$50,000Youth Development$20,000Other$10,000Community Improvement$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBUILDING 21 — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Philadelphia Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOM YOUR BUSINESS — $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% 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.

The William Penn FoundationPA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Coded by Kids 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Coded by Kids?

    Find your warmest path to Coded by Kids 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 9 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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