Coding Tomorrow Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832684951
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Fremont, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4082048178
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,566
- Expenses
- $417
- Assets
- $1,149
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Frederic Xiong (Executive Board Director)
- George Bai (Vice-Executive Board Director)
- Stella Wong (Executive Administrative Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Coding Tomorrow Initiative primarily seeks to increase global literacy, by providing substantial programming and digital literacy classes and donating materials and equipment to families who cannot afford them. Our primary purpose is to ensure each and every family have access to the internet and have the proper tools to fully utilize their access. The Initiative understands that for many of these disadvantaged lower-income families, acquiring these tools and equipment are both economically burdening, and difficult. As such, our primary goal is to ensure they have been donated these items, and are taught to properly use them.
What it reported doing in 2018
Introduction to Digital App Development: Python - Hosted at Newark Alameda County Public Library, Coding Tomorrow instructors educated eleven 9-15 year-olds on the programming language of Python. Using Replit's coding platform, CTI introduced the basics, from definitions of variables and strings to class-objects, and manipulating dictionaries. In order to ensure that our students have mastered the basics of the language, and are ready to embark on their app development journey, the initiative tested their coding ability via a final project, which consisted of the students creating a battleship app. The app worked via inputs from the user and must utilize tools provided by the IDE/platform of ReplIt. At the end of the program, 82% of the students not only successfully programmed a battleship program fitting all of our requirements, but also an app that may accompany the game to track the hits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.6%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 20.9%; rating input score 21
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 73.4%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.76; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.6% of revenue deployed · 20.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $87 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 6/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.