California · Nonprofit
CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC
CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC (California) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,498,051 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($35,487,500). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $174M
- Net assets
- $77M
What Code for America Labs Inc does
Mission
Code for america (cfa) works shoulder to shoulder with community organizations and government to build digital tools and services, change policies, and improve programs. Cfa believes government can work for the people, by the people, in the digital age and that government at all levels can and should work well for all people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Safety netwe're modernizing the digital delivery of benefits for equitable outcomes with the goal of deliverying $30 billion in benefits to 13 million people across 15 states. In 2024 we:-began handoff for our first cohort of the safety net innovation lab while scaling delivery in our second cohort. We kicked off our third cohort with a partnership in the state of arizona to design the front end of a brand new bilingual integrated benefits application that determines eligibility for snap, temporary assistance for needy families (tanf), low income home energy assistance program (liheap), child care assistance, and medical assistance. We also scaled two multi-state initiatives. To date, we have partnered with 14 states, washington d.c., and the cherokee nation. Building on the success of our automated medicaid renewal partnership with the state of minnesota, we secured partnerships with pennsylvania and colorado to deliver strategic, impact focused recommendations to improve medicaid renewal systems and processes. Recommendations adopted in pennsylvania more than tripled their automated renewal rate, while recommendations in colorado increased their automated renewal rate by 19%.…
$19,139,673 spent$13,396,781 earned by the program64% of program spendingTax benefitsour tax benefits portfolio seeks to fundamentally change how americans with low or no incomes access the tax credits and flexible cash owed to them. Our goal is to close the $14 billion tax benefits uptake gap and simplify the tax filing process. In 2024, we:-simplified the tax filing process and helped people achieve the financial stability they deserve by continuing to provide getyourrefund. Getyourrefund is a free, trustworthy tax filing service developed in partnership with the irs and vita volunteer tax preparation partners as a digital platform for vita-assisted filing.-developed an integrated state filing strategy to complement federal direct file, in response to the irs's direct file announcement. We successfully partnered with state tax departments to implement simple, user-friendly, free tax filing for direct file users in arizona, idaho, maryland, north carolina, and new jersey.-advocated for policies that simplify the tax process. Shaped the national conversation about simplifying tax filing, publishing research and recommendations based on our experience running getyourrefund, getctc, and fileyourstatetaxes.-collaborated with partners across the country,…
$5,962,494 spentof which $13,500 as grants$11,716,619 earned by the program20% of program spendingClear my recordwe work to fundamentally transform the process of clearing records by advancing automatic record clearance to eliminate barriers for people trying to move forward with their lives. In 2024, we:-supported policy campaigns in 8 states by integrating technical best practices for implementation into legislation and designing policy solutions that take into account government's existing technology and data availability. With these solutions, government agencies are more able to successfully implement policy once passed.-built 4 proofs of concept, technical solutions that solve for common implementation challenges we've seen across the country and shared these solutions with multiple government agencies to improve implementation and policy passage success.-continued to partner with the state of utah to clear convictions of eligible people. This work included helping the state identify records retroactively eligible, with 350k records cleared, as well as building the capacity of the state to identify records that will be eligible on an ongoing basis as they meet eligibility requirements.-supported 6 states in active implementation with continued technical advising support…
$1,689,264 spent$193,508 earned by the program6% of program spendingAdvancing economic mobility with local initiativewe are helping local governments and allied organizations achieve better outcomes for residents and improve local capability to use digital services. In 2024, we:-continued our partnership with shelby county and the city of memphis to demonstrate how to strengthen communities by empowering those who have been most disconnected.in 2024 we formalized our partnership with stakeholders across memphis, including working in partnership with risekit to design a digital platform to connect opportunity youth to cbos, employers, and government resources in memphis to advance educational and economic opportunity.
$3,021,020 spent$1,011,838 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,812,451.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $30M to $96M (+220%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 20% · 2019 27% · 2020 19% · 2021 5% · 2022 16% · 2023 20% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Amanda Renteria
Chief executive officer
Board chair
John Lilly
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $8.2M → $29M.
21 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 18% · 2019 14% · 2020 40% · 2021 18% · 2022 17% · 2023 15% — 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
39% of CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63M 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
CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 39 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 270 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record — $1.1M federal, $76 state.
- Department of Agriculture$1.0M
- Executive Office of the President$98k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $76
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 CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC?
- CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC (California) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,498,051 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($35,487,500). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $174,498,051 in grants to CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,487,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 92 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