Code for Science and Society

Code for Science and Society is an advocacy group based in Portland, Oregon that uses coding and data to advocate for answers to economic issues. In December 2021, the group held an event to promote “intersectionality” and how to use data and coding in order to advance it. 1

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3)
Issue Areas: Economic Policy
Website: www.codeforsociety.org
Formation:

2016

Executive Director:

Daniella Robinson

Location: Portland, OR View on map
Tax ID: 81-3791683
Most Recent Filing: 2025
Budget (2025): Assets: $11,385,882 Revenue: $10,336,769 Expenses: $18,017,578

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    The group has received several grants from left-of-center organizations including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. 2

    Background

    Code for Science and Society was founded in 2016 to research and advocate solutions to economic issues through the usage of coding and data analysis. The group claims to also focuses on social and organization structures meant to support research, education, and technology. 3

    The group is a fiscal sponsor for similar data and technology-based groups, while also providing financial operations, administrative support, strategic consultations, and community resources. 4

    Activities

    More Unions in Tech

    In October 2021, Code for Science and Society hosted an event promoting unionization in the technology industry. The event hosted Aerica Shimizu Banks, who built a DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) program at Google. It also hosted two other union organizers who organized tech companies and gig workers. 5

    Anti-Oppression Workshop

    In December 2021, Code for Science and Society hosted an event on technology and social justice based on concept of “intersectionality.” The event featured open-source leaders, anarchist organizers, and community managers. 1

    Research Software Sustainability

    In September 2022, the US Research Software Sustainability Institute, a fiscally sponsored project of the Code for Science and Society, announced grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation to develop sustainable research software. 6

    Climate Sensitive Infectious Diseases (CSID)

    In December 2022, Code for Science and Society announced a program to support open-source communities that practice developing modeling tools for Climate Sensitive Infectious Diseases (CSID). The Wellstone Trust funded the project and the partners on the project included the group’s fiscally sponsored projects Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and U.S. Research Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI), as well as the independent groups Ersilia Open Source Initiative and H3D Foundation. 7

    Fiscally Sponsored Projects

    According to the 2022 Annual Report, the Code for Science and Society’s fiscally sponsored project OA.Works integrated the ShareYourPaper tool with the Open Climate Campaign to enable researchers to easily make work addressing global climate issues freely available. Its work was presented at a United Nations panel on climate justice. 8

    Funding

    Code for Science and Society has received funding from several left-of-center foundations, including a series of grants from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations totaling $1,250,000 since 2021. 2

    Code for Science and Society received $1,250,000 from the MacArthur Foundation in 2023 for the Distributed AI Research Institute to study artificial intelligence. The group also received $300,000 in 2023 to research machine learning. The group received $500,000 in 2023 for its Algorithmic Justice League project to prevent AI harms. The group received $19,000 in 2023 to research machine learning. The group received $50,000 in 2022 to research machine learning. 9

    Code for Science and Society group received $500,000 in 2023 from the Rockefeller Foundation to research the use of AI and satellite imagery to study the residual effects of apartheid in South Africa. 10

    Leadership

    Code for Science and Society’s executive director is Danielle Robinson. She is a 2016 Mozilla Fellow for Science. 11

    Financials

    According to the Code for Science and Society’s 2023 tax return, the group had $17,043,407 in revenue, $9,735,390 in expenses, and $15,061,411 in assets. 12

    The group awarded $331,556 in grants to Community Initiatives. 12

    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2025 $11,385,882 $10,336,769 $18,017,578 View
    2024 $22,000,190 $20,844,458 $15,085,265 View
    2023 $15,061,411 $17,043,407 $9,735,390 View
    2022 $7,555,592 $7,572,233 $4,777,839 View
    2021 $4,762,095 $5,815,149 $3,423,558 View
    2020 $2,334,544 $3,099,892 $1,681,259 View

    Prior year filings: 2019, 2018, 2017

    Revenue Detail

    Expenses Detail

    Employee Compensation

    • Number of Employees: 41

    Highest Earning Employees

    EmployeeTitleTotal Compensation
    Danielle Robinson PhDEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT$226,131
    Kaitlin ThaneyPROGRAM EXECUTIVE$218,854
    Joy BuolamwiniPROGRAM EXECUTIVE$196,696
    Alexia HannaPROGRAM EXECUTIVE$195,776
    Timnit GebruPROGRAM EXECUTIVE$190,143
    Melisa BokPROGRAM EXECUTIVE$188,005
    Ronald Brooks IIICFO AND TREASURER (FROM 10/2024)$43,213
    Kena MayberryCOO AND SECRETARY (FROM 03/2025)$40,600
    Jochai Ben-AvieDIRECTOR$26,473

    Grant Activity

    All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $41,334,488
    • Number of Grants: 116
    • Number of Funders: 34

    Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $3,470,0002021 ArcadiaTo improve funding and resourcing for the open technology and systems that research relies on
    $2,551,6522024 Gates FoundationTo support the broader researcher community in learning and advocating for better peer review practices – especially in the early career researcher.
    $1,875,5932021 Gates Foundationto provide for our grantees to publish data in readily available journals and periodicals to allow for data to be accessible for others
    $1,800,0002025 ArcadiaTo establish a grant programme to fund networks that support open access to research
    $1,755,7652022 Silicon Valley Community FoundationSciences
    $1,330,0002023 The Ford FoundationCore support for the Algorithmic Justice League to conduct research and increase public and policymaker awareness of the risks and harms of artificial intelligence on society through creative science communication projects
    $1,276,2712023 Gates Foundationto provide for our grantees to publish data in readily available journals and periodicals to allow for data to be accessible for others
    $1,185,6122022 New Venture FundTECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    $1,161,8992021 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
    $1,100,0002023 The Ford FoundationCore support to the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute to produce interdisciplinary AI research by and for the benefit of marginalized communities
    $1,000,0002023 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundationto support Invest in Open Infrastructure in the further development of the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services and to test models and strategies for sustaining open infrastructure
    $1,000,0002021 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationIn support of The Distributed AI Research Institute.
    $1,000,0002021 The Ford FoundationCore support to the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute to produce interdisciplinary AI research by and for the benefit of marginalized communities
    $983,3332023 Mitchell Kapor FoundationFOR THE ALGORITHMIC JUSTICE LEAGUES GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES TO SUPPORT THEIR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM; TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS WORKING TO MAKE THE TECHNOLOGY ECOSYSTEM MORE DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE, AND WITH WHOM WE'D LIKE TO FOSTER COLLABORATION OVER TIME; AND TO SUPPORT THE DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
    $891,8242020 Alfred P. Sloan FoundationTO ENABLE RESEARCH ON THE INNOVATION PROCESS, FROM INITIAL FUNDING THROUGH ECONOMIC IMPACTS, BY COMPILING, LINKING, AND DOCUMENTING COMPREHENSIVE DATASETS ABOUT PATENTS AND PATENTING
    $700,0002024 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
    $614,7062022 Silicon Valley Community FoundationSciences
    $588,2352022 Robert Wood Johnson FoundationTo help the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute build a more sustainable organization.
    $579,4122022 Silicon Valley Community FoundationSciences
    $500,0002024 Mitchell Kapor FoundationTO SUPPORT THE CENTER ADDRESSING INEQUITIES IN THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE
    $500,0002023 The Rockefeller FoundationGrant in support of research using AI and satellite imaging to understand the residual impacts of apartheid on the ability of marginalized groups to access basic needs in South Africa
    $500,0002021 Open Society Foundationto support the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute for their work on the discriminatory impacts of Artificial Intelligence and how to mitigate harm, to benefit both the global technical research community by creating technology that has a truly positive impact on society, as well as marginalized communities currently harmed by Artificial Intelligence technologies
    $472,6712024 Internet Society FoundationResearch
    $450,0002023 Foundation to Promote Open Societyto support the Distributed AI Research Institute's work on the discriminatory impacts of Artificial Intelligence and how to mitigate harm, to benefit both the global technical research community by creating technology that has a truly positive impact on society, as well as marginalized communities currently harmed by Artificial Intelligence technologies
    $400,0002025 The Ford FoundationCore support for the Center on Race and Digital Justice's work to cultivate accountability, drive equity, and contribute to the restoration and expansion of civil and human rights that are threatened by digitally networked systems of power and control

    All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $2,398,446
    • Number of Grants: 52
    • Number of Recipients: 29

    Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $331,5562023 Community InitiativesPROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
    $249,7602021 Multiple EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC RecipientsPROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
    $228,1312023 Multiple EUROPE (INCLUDING ICELAND & GREENLAND) – ALBANIA, ANDORRA, AUSTRIA, BELGIUM RecipientsPROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
    $146,3962022 National Bureau of Economic Research IncINNOVATION INFORMATION INITIATIVE AWARD
    $100,0002024 Multiple North America (Canada and Mexico) RecipientsPROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
    $95,2002021 Multiple EUROPE (INCLUDING ICELAND & GREENLAND) RecipientsPROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
    $59,9602021 Opencollective FoundationPROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION AND TRANSFER DAT PROGRAM FUNDS
    $42,2752022 Opencollective FoundationPROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION AND TRANSFER DAT PROGRAM FUNDS
    $32,4922021 Cornell UniversityPROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
    $30,0002024 Worker Rights ConsortiumPROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
    $25,7282021 University of California Santa BarbaraPROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
    $21,7682021 Multiple North America (Canada and Mexico) RecipientsPROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION
    $21,4262024 Multiple EUROPE (INCLUDING ICELAND & GREENLAND) RecipientsPROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
    $20,5002021 Multiple SOUTH AMERICA RecipientsPROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
    $20,4622024 Open Environmental Data IncPROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
    $20,0002021 Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science IncPROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION
    $19,8702021 Gettysburg CollegePROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION
    $19,2592021 University of Southern CaliforniaPROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION
    $18,9632021 Multiple North America (Canada and Mexico) RecipientsPROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION
    $18,8982021 Community InitiativesPROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION
    $18,7792021 Multiple Sub-Saharan Africa RecipientsPROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION
    $18,6152021 Multiple EUROPE (INCLUDING ICELAND & GREENLAND) RecipientsPROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION
    $17,9392024 Opencollective FoundationPROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
    $16,0002021 North Carolina State UniversityPROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION
    $15,7002022 Marcus A Foster Educational InstitutePROGRAM EVENT FACILITATION

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    References

    1. “Anti-Oppression Frameworks in Open Source.” Code for Science and Society. Accessed October 14, 2024. https://www.codeforsociety.org/incubator/events/anti-oppression-frameworks-in-f-loss.
    2. “Open Society Foundations – Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships.” Open Society Foundations – Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships – Open Society Foundations. Accessed October 14, 2024. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?filter_keyword=Code%2Bfor%2BScience%2Band%2BSociety.
    3. “History.” Code for Science & Society. Accessed October 14, 2024. https://www.codeforsociety.org/about/history.
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    7. Okune, Angela. “New Project Launch: Supporting Communities of Practice Working on Climate-Sensitive Infectious Disease.” Code for Science & Society, December 19, 2022. https://www.codeforsociety.org/news/new-project-launch-supporting-communities-of-practice-working-on-climate-sensitive-infectious-disease
    8. “2022 Annual Report.” Code for Science & Society. Accessed October 14, 2024. https://www.codeforsociety.org/news/2022-annual-report.
    9. “Code for Science and Society .” MacArthur Foundation. Accessed October 14, 2024. https://www.macfound.org/grantee/code-for-science-and-society-10115475/.
    10. “Code for Science & Society 2023.” The Rockefeller Foundation, September 18, 2024. https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/code-for-science-society-2023/.
    11. “Danielle Robinson, Phd.” Code for Science & Society. Accessed October 14, 2024. https://www.codeforsociety.org/about/people/288.
    12. “Code for Science and Society Inc, Full Filing – Nonprofit Explorer.” ProPublica. Accessed October 14, 2024. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/813791683/202441299349303259/full.