CodeHouse
Legal name: Codehouse Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842963319
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, US
- Phone
- 717-654-7620
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $130,580
- Expenses
- $757,605
- Assets
- $1,359,312
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ernest Holmes (President Senior Director)
- Tavis Thompson (Vice-President Mentorship Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Ernest Holmes (President Senior Director): $21,900 total reported compensation
- Jaycee Holmes (SEC/Director of Curriculum and Instruction): $13,500 total reported compensation
- Flor Holmes (TreasurerAccountant): $13,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CodeHouse is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that focuses on cultivating a strong pipeline between HBCU students and industry-leading tech companies. At its core, CodeHouse aims to level the playing field of the technology industry by providing exposure and resources to enhance HBCU students’ technical skills resulting in job placement and elevating the next generation of leaders in technology.
What it reported doing in 2025
Scholar Initiative - Summer Program Held on the month of July 2025. CodeHouse offered a summer academy program to 28 students from HBCU schools Spelman College, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University, Howard University and North Carlina A&T State University. The program included introduction to computer science, workshops with several tech industry representatives and professional development. The students received a stipend for the summer program and a scholarship for the four-year college.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -480.2%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.79; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $758K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $22K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.