Minnesota · Nonprofit
CODE SAVVY
CODE SAVVY (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $547,563 to it, the largest being CARGILL FOUNDATION ($130,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $407k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $548k
- Net assets
- $416k
What Code Savvy does
Mission
To interrupt and counteract existing gender, racial, and economic gaps in computing by equipping youth and educators with the knowledge, skills, and support to create with technology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Code Savvy educator programs: in 2025, we deepened our impact by centering educator voices and expanding flexible, high-quality professional learning opportunities across minnesota. We began the year with an educator roundtable to gather feedback on needed supports, using these insights to shape our programming. We launched a new educator professional development series, free, 1.5-hour virtual sessions designed for educators and community members to build cs skills in a flexible, drop-in format. Sessions on topics like scratch, python, ai, and code.org pathways provided practical, ready-to-use strategies, with participants reporting increased confidence and engagement. We also wrapped up the final year of our national science foundation-funded coaching for equity program, which has trained over 100 educators to implement equitable computer science practices. In addition, we continued our partnership with code.org, including a cs education week training focused on bringing ai into classrooms. Across all programs, we equipped educators with the tools, resources, and community needed to create inclusive and engaging computer science learning experiences.
$102,359 spent$34,561 earned by the program31% of program spendingCode Savvy experience: in 2025, our experience programs continued to grow and refine the byte- sized challenge, expanding the program to be offered twice per year, once during the summer and once during the school year. This change was driven by participant feedback and helped fill critical summer programming gaps. We served our largest number of educators to date, welcoming 14 new educators while continuing to support returning participants who run the challenge year after year due to high student engagement. We also continued to refine the curriculum based on educator feedback, ensuring it remains accessible, engaging, and easy to implement. In 2025, all four language versions of the curriculum were available and in active use, offering the program in english, spanish, somali, and hmong. We hosted our first-ever innovate for good hackathon, engaging over 50 students in a hands-on day of coding, creativity, and collaboration. The event was supported by 20 industry volunteers and mentors who brought real-world perspective and guidance to students alongside experienced facilitators. The impact was strong: 91% of students reported learning new cs skills, 88% felt more confident…
$76,526 spentof which $11,250 as grants23% of program spendingCode Savvy explore: in 2025, our code explorers program expanded its reach bringing free sessions to new community locations including ramsey county library in roseville and st. Paul public library in dayton's bluff. Building on our ongoing coding exploration across languages like python, scratch, html, thunkable, and java, we introduced physical computing to our sessions for the first time, incorporating micro:bit, edison robots, and other robotics tools to give students hands-on experience with hardware alongside software.
$156,024 spentof which $2,500 as grants47% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $334,909.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $406k to $620k (+53%).
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.
91% of CODE SAVVY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Mariana Verdugo
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $2k → $150k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 SAVVY’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 SAVVY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
54% 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 SAVVY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 34% · 2020 43% · 2021 39% · 2022 30% · 2023 52% — 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
33% of CODE SAVVY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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 SAVVY draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 SAVVY is better cushioned than half of the 904 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CODE SAVVY
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SAVVY: 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 SAVVY?
- CODE SAVVY (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $547,563 to it, the largest being CARGILL FOUNDATION ($130,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CODE SAVVY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $547,563 in grants to CODE SAVVY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CODE SAVVY?
- CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CODE SAVVY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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