New York · Nonprofit
CODE FOR LIFE USA INC
CODE FOR LIFE USA INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,760 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $473k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $142k
- Net assets
- $124k
What Code for Life USA Inc does
Mission
Code for life usa, inc.'s mission is to equip youth and young adults in under-served and high poverty communities, with practical life skills and technological proficiency they need to thrive in the new digitally-driven economy. By creating a neighborhood-focused technology program that unites educational institutions, industry leaders, the tech community, local churches, and community organizations, the organization seeks to transform the way young people see themselves and their futures. Through its theory and methodology of change, the organization aims to help young people become creators and makers of technology, and to create a pipeline of young coders and an onramp for young people to thrive to the new technology community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's activities include facilitating the creator & maker training, comprised of courses including: web basics, software development, and advanced js. In the courses, young people learn how to code in various computer programming languages, including but not limited to: html, css, javascript, react, node.js, phython, mongodb, and c. The program curriculum also includes agile methods (I.e., collaboration, idea development, and giving & receiving feedback) to help participants develop personally through life coaching, case management and vision casting. The creator & maker training program equips young people with web, mobile and hardware development skills while exposing them to the creative process, collaboration, social innovation, and design, which culminates in a capstone project that encapsulates their learning. The organization partners with technology professionals, the math and science departments at higher education institutions, and a local network of schools and churches to recruit, train, hire, and supervise college and graduate school students to serve as instructors to teach the course curriculum. The collective impact approach coalesces a range of…
$376,403 spent$79,450 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $376,403.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $135k to $140k (+3%).
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.
83% of CODE FOR LIFE USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Christopher Troy
CEO
Board chair
Peter Sam Raj
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 LIFE USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 LIFE USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 LIFE USA INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
66% of CODE FOR LIFE USA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $48k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 LIFE USA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CODE FOR LIFE USA 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CODE FOR LIFE USA 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 LIFE USA INC?
- CODE FOR LIFE USA INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,760 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CODE FOR LIFE USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $141,760 in grants to CODE FOR LIFE USA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CODE FOR LIFE USA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CODE FOR LIFE USA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing