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COMPUTERS4KIDS

COMPUTERS4KIDS (Virginia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,420,481 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($293,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$770k
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$1.3M
21/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Computers4kids does

Mission

C4k combines mentoring and technology to prepare youth for brighter futures.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. For the past two decades, charlottesville and albemarle youth have imagined brighter futures at c4k. Through access, supportive mentors, and generous local partners, c4k offers participants space to see themselves within an engaged community of technology and learning.filled with tools that unlock creative potential, our c4k clubhouse is a place for making amazing things happen. Located in downtown charlottesville, our space foasters curiosity and enables the confidence-building explorations that power all our programs.discovery is our guide. From 3d printing, to game development, to animation, youth and mentors build relationships as they create and grow together. These connections bridge gaps and expand opportunities. We believe every young person deserves the chance to make a brighter future happen.in fy25:- 79 1-to-1 mentoring matches were supported- 30 youth engaged in collabs - clubs where youth designed and built steam projects with group mentors- 128 youth were welcomed into the clubhouse, where they participated in steam acitivities and interacted with adult mentors- 19 youth participated in free, steam-based summer camps

    $580,806 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $580,806.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($459k) Expenses 100 ($389k) Net assets 100 ($340k)2018 Revenue 81 ($371k) Expenses 120 ($467k) Net assets 72 ($245k)2019 Revenue 124 ($567k) Expenses 124 ($482k) Net assets 97 ($330k)2020 Revenue 116 ($530k) Expenses 111 ($431k) Net assets 126 ($429k)2021 Revenue 192 ($880k) Expenses 120 ($465k) Net assets 248 ($845k)2022 Revenue 199 ($913k) Expenses 143 ($555k) Net assets 353 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 178 ($818k) Expenses 172 ($670k) Net assets 397 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 169 ($778k) Expenses 211 ($822k) Net assets 384 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 168 ($770k) Expenses 202 ($784k) Net assets 380 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (168)Expenses (202)Net assets (380)Peer revenue range

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 $1.2M to $1.7M (+42%).

$354k
$267k
$341k
$482k
$852k
$1.2M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 13% · 2019 13% · 2020 8% · 2021 21% · 2022 5% · 2023 6% · 2024 9% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of COMPUTERS4KIDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$70k
’17
−$96k
’18
$86k
’19
$99k
’20
$416k
’21
$358k
’22
$148k
’23
−$44k
’24
−$14k
’25
15
months of
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

Kala Somerville

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121113131315121416
Joined·+2+4+5+0+4+0+4+4
No longer listed·32502322
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $74k → $196k.

8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 COMPUTERS4KIDS’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

COMPUTERS4KIDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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

53% 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 COMPUTERS4KIDS.

21%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 39% · 2019 36% · 2020 31% · 2021 22% · 2022 35% · 2023 39% — 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

47% of COMPUTERS4KIDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

82% of COMPUTERS4KIDS's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

NY
MA
OH
CT
VA
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $565k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMPUTERS4KIDS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve14.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like COMPUTERS4KIDS

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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 10%Fundraising 16%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMPUTERS4KIDS?
COMPUTERS4KIDS (Virginia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,420,481 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($293,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMPUTERS4KIDS have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,420,481 in grants to COMPUTERS4KIDS, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMPUTERS4KIDS?
CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $293,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMPUTERS4KIDS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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