California · Nonprofit
THE CODEX FOUNDATION
THE CODEX FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,802,592 to it, the largest being REVADA FOUNDATION ($1,697,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $181k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What The Codex Foundation does
Mission
The Codex Foundation logan book arts center aims to be a vital part of the arts and culture community in berkeley and beyond, focusing on the book as a work of art-a dynamic crossroads between the visual and literary arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation has an active publishing program. Its function is to educate the public about the book as a work of art. Publishing also advances the careers of those working in the field by sharing and promoting their work. Our publications contribute to the dialogue, scholarship, and critical theory surrounding artists' books within the field of contemporary art. The foundation continues to publish its journal, monograph series, exhibition catalogs, and special boxed portfolios containing original prints and works on paper. Another aspect of our publishing program is a workshop led by one of our cofounders on most saturdays. He leads a group of community members in the creation of poetry chapbooks using various printmaking and bookbinding techniques.
$62,251 spent$57,302 earned by the program20% of program spendingWe offer public-facing events and activities from our brick-and-mortar location in berkeley, such as exhibitions, lectures, and workshops. We also have a growing library, which is open to the public and houses artists' books, fine press publications, and a book arts reference library used to promote research and scholarship. We have a vibrant internship and volunteer program where individuals interested in the field get training and experience by helping us with projects in our historic letterpress studio, bindery, and library. They work on designing and printing various ephemera related to our activities as a nonprofit, learning the history, craft, and trade surrounding the history, art, and craft of the book.
$108,939 spent$3,700 earned by the program35% of program spendingThe foundation organizes a biennial international exhibition and symposium to bring the community of makers, scholars, librarians, and curators with the public. The symposium features prominent speakers who are educators, writers, and artists, providing an opportunity to hear from the best in the field. The exhibition brings together artists, craftspeople, academics, independent scholars, teachers, and community book art institutions. It develops educational opportunities for these communities to better understand the field. This event involves student groups and offers both research scholarships and emerging artist fellowships. Community members can get involved as volunteers for free entry to the event, and we arrange additional events in collaboration with community organizations.
$140,064 spent$52,872 earned by the program45% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $311,254.
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 $212k to $1.9M (+806%).
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.
33% of THE CODEX FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $5.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 THE CODEX FOUNDATION’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
THE CODEX FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
60% of THE CODEX FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
THE CODEX FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k 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
THE CODEX FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE CODEX FOUNDATION
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 THE CODEX FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CODEX FOUNDATION?
- THE CODEX FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,802,592 to it, the largest being REVADA FOUNDATION ($1,697,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CODEX FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,802,592 in grants to THE CODEX FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CODEX FOUNDATION?
- REVADA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,697,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CODEX FOUNDATION 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.
Play a game about who funds Codex →
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 10 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