Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$781,964

Total expenses

$720,880

Contributions and grants received

$781,964

Grants paid

$60,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$252,331

Total liabilities, end of year

$46,467

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$205,864

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$468,859

Management and general expenses

$94,555

Fundraising expenses

$157,466

Program service expenses (Part III)

$468,859

Program services were 65.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• IN THE US, WE ESTABLISHED 220 NEW CODE CLUBS AND CODERDOJOS, 138 OF THOSE BEING CODE CLUBS AND 82 BEING CODERDOJOS. WE SUPPORTED 137 YOUTH TO PARTICIPATE IN LAST YEARS' COOLEST PROJECTS ONLINE EVENT, THIS BEING THE SECOND HIGHEST PARTICIPATION RATE WE'VE SEEN THUS FAR IN THE US. WE LED SEVERAL WORKSHOPS AT EDUCATOR-FACING EVENTS INCLUDING THE STEM ECOSYSTEMS LEARNING CONVENING, THE BROADCOM FOUNDATION'S SCIENCE FAIR DIRECTOR'S RETREAT, POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CONFERENCE, THE SARSEF FAIR DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE AND OTHERS. ATTENDING THESE EVENTS NOT ONLY SUPPORTED OUR OVERALL GROWTH FOR CLUBS IN THE US, BUT ALSO HELPED US IDENTIFY POTENTIAL PARTNERSHIPS OPPORTUNITIES TO PURSUE IN 2024 WITH MULTIPLE SCIENCE FAIRS THAT, ON AVERAGE, REACH OVER 1,000 YOUTH! IN 2023, COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS REACHED 509 LEARNERS FROM EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS THROUGH PROGRAMS HELD WITH OVER 10 PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. THE BEST BUY BLUE GIVES BACK INITIATIVE REACHED 125 LEARNERS ALONE; WHERE PARTICIPANTS WERE LED THROUGH THE "INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON: VARIABLES, FUNCTIONS, AND LOOPS" PATHWAY BY RPF-TRAINED FACILITATORS. EIGHT OF OUR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS WERE RETURNING PARTNERS, RUNNING SUMMER PROGRAMS AND RECURRING COHORTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. THE CONTENT SPANNED FROM OUR "INTRODUCTION TO SCRATCH PATHWAY," TO "INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON AND EVEN SOME PROGRAMS USING RASPBERRY PI HARDWARE TO TEACH PHYSICAL COMPUTING. COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS FORMED RELATIONSHIPS WITH PARTNER SITES ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IN STATES WITH HIGH POPULATIONS OF EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED LEARNERS, INCLUDING CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, MARYLAND, OHIO, OKLAHOMA, AND EVEN THE STATE OF GUANAJUATO IN MEXICO.OUR KEY OBJECTIVES FOR 2024 ARE GROWING CODE CLUBS, BUILDING A VIBRANT COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS AND EDUCATORS WHO ARE INSPIRED TO GET CREATIVE WITH TECHNOLOGY, AND SUPPORTING EDUCATORS IN DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE TO TEACH COMPUTING. WHILE OUR FOCUS IN 2023 WAS ON NON-FORMAL OPPORTUNITIES, IN 2024, WE AIM TO EXPAND BOTH NON-FORMAL AND FORMAL EDUCATION INITIATIVES. THIS INVOLVES RECONNECTING WITH RASPBERRY PI CERTIFIED EDUCATORS AND EXPLORING COLLABORATIONS WITH SCHOOL SYSTEMS TO IMPLEMENT THE COMPUTING CURRICULUM AND POSSIBLY ADA CS. TO ACHIEVE THESE OBJECTIVES, WE PLAN TO A) EXPAND OUR US-BASED TEAM B) FORM PARTNERSHIPS WITH BOTH NATIONAL AND LOCAL YOUTH-SERVING ORGANIZATIONS AND EDUCATION SYSTEMS C) SHIFT OUR APPROACH IN COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS D) LEVERAGE OUR EXISTING RELATIONSHIPS WITH RASPBERRY PI CERTIFIED EDUCATORS AND STEM-FOCUSED NETWORKS.

  Expenses $468,859 · Grants $60,000

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• DIGITAL NEST

  $12,000

  BEST BUY - BLUE GIVES BACK GRANT PROGRAM

• DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION

  $12,000

  BEST BUY - BLUE GIVES BACK GRANT PROGRAM

• URBAN CODERS GUILD

  $12,000

  BEST BUY - BLUE GIVES BACK GRANT PROGRAM

• MIAMI EDTECH

  $12,000

  BEST BUY - BLUE GIVES BACK GRANT PROGRAM

• THE UNITY COUNCIL

  $12,000

  BEST BUY - BLUE GIVES BACK GRANT PROGRAM

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• RASPBERRY PI FOUNDATION

  TO ENCOURAGE THE TEACHING OF BASIC COMPUTER SCIENCE IN SCHOOL · UK

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

10 May 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

202411329349300001

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