California · Nonprofit
Hacker Dojo
Hacker Dojo (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,279 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($66,463). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $495k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $193k
- Net assets
- $-98289
What Hacker Dojo does
Mission
The mission is to create a member-driven, accessible, and inclusive community of tech enthusiasts, learners, entrepreneurs, and hackers - by providing 24/7 access to space, classes, events, and equipment
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Physical space for community collaboration. Low cost workspace and event hosting for community members. Membership has grown to be over 180 people. Over 2,000 people attended events last year. Providing a place to engage with other members of the tech community, find support in job searching, resume prep and interview practice, learn about entrepreneurship and even launch new companies and ideas. We facilitated an average of 5 events per week in our space, hosting over 250 free community events over the course of the year.
$360,288 spent$322,648 earned by the program80% of program spendingSummit public charter school programs. In 2023, we launched a new program teaching classes on entrepreneurship, robotics and coding at 3 area high schools. Inspire and teach students, and showcase pathways to success beyond just attending college. This program continues to support hundreds of students in the San Francisco Bay Area.
$58,508 spent$107,614 earned by the program13% of program spendingStartup mix and pitch. Community members network and pitch their current start-up/small business ideas. We support hundreds of people in community having a space that they can connect, share, and develop ideas and make them into viable products and business.
$31,957 spent$6,283 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $450,753.
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 2021 to 2022, from $358k to $160k (−55%).
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.
12% of Hacker Dojo’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Qi Diaz
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $22k → $11k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Hacker Dojo’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
Hacker Dojo leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 Hacker Dojo.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 69% · 2021 99% · 2022 68% · 2023 51% — 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.
Where its funders are
60% of Hacker Dojo'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 $77k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Hacker Dojo's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Hacker Dojo
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Hacker Dojo: 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 Hacker Dojo?
- Hacker Dojo (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,279 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($66,463). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Hacker Dojo have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $193,279 in grants to Hacker Dojo, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hacker Dojo?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $66,463 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hacker Dojo 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.
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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 7 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