Washington · Nonprofit
ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY
ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY (Washington) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,442,150 to it, the largest being Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation ($2,080,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Ada Developers Academy does
Mission
At Ada Developers Academy, we invest in underrepresented adults through technology education and community, opening pathways to economic power and putting our students at the center of tech.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, ada served 4,542 students through our free preparatory program, build & build live, which teaches adult learners the basics of coding. Additionally, we served 126students through our core program, an immersive, cost-free program that combines classroom training with an educational internship to teach students both coding and software development skills. The curriculum covers full-stack web development, including python, sql, flask, html, css, javascript, and computer science fundamentals, gen ai with an emphasis on inclusivity. Across our programs, participants included 72% people of color, 73% immigrants to the united states, 51% first-generation college students, 34% parents of minor children, and an average age at enrollment of 34.
$1,083,584 spent46% of program spendingAda's workforce development programs help to close the tech skills gap and create more access to economic mobility for underserved communities, ensuring they are job-ready junior full-stack engineers and technologists. We provide comprehensive support to ensure student success. In addition to monthly stipends for living expenses, ada offers a range of wrap-around support, including childcare stipends, loaner laptops and wifi hotspots, financial assistance, 1:1 tutoring, success coaches, a learning management system, industry mentors, ai coaching during their job search, and continuing education opportunities.
$1,036,552 spentof which $320,114 as grants$97,500 earned by the program44% of program spendingThe ai house, formally launched to the public in march 2025 and run by ada and the ai2 incubator, serves as a nexus for innovation and collaboration, offering events, knowledge sharing, mentorship, investment, and connections that empower ai entrepreneurs and researchers in the region. The ai house offers flexible meetup space tailored toward early-stage ai startups; female founders and founders of color are encouraged to participate through equitable programming and offerings driven by ada. In 2025, over 14,000 attendees registered across 155 events at the ai house.
$236,113 spentof which $10,000 as grants10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,356,249.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $19M to $4.9M (−75%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 18% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tina-Marie Gulley
CEO
Board chair
Laura Ruderman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $3k → $718k.
12 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 60% · 2021 73% · 2022 43% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $715k on record.
- Department of Labor$715k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY?
- ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY (Washington) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,442,150 to it, the largest being Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation ($2,080,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $5,442,150 in grants to ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY?
- Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,080,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 39 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing