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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 it funds
01FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
COMMUNITY OF SCHOOLS IN PHILADELPHI$50,000
BUILDING 21$50,000
HOPEWORKS CAMDEN$50,000
PER SCHOLAS$50,000
LAUNCHCODE$50,000
NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSH$20,000
MOM YOUR BUSINESS$10,000
U SCHOOL INC$10,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.
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 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
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
2
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
3
Inroads Inc

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

Education
4
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
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
America On Tech Inc

Prepare the next generation of technology leaders from underestimated communities by helping students obtain degrees and careers in technology

Education
7
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
8
Future Founders Foundation

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

Education
9
YouthBuild Newark Inc

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

Youth Development
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.

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11
Codeorg

Code.org is an education innovation nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science, and increasing participation by young women and underrepresented groups. our vision is that every student in every school should have the…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Academies Inc; 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 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. 8 of the 9 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC: $100,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INCCommunities in Schools of Philadelphia Inc: $50,000 · EducationCommunities in Schools of Philadelphia IncHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $50,000 · EducationHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INCBUILDING 21: $50,000 · EducationBUILDING 21THE 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Philadelphia Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING 21: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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
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.

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

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 Coded by Kids funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coded by Kids. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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