Sample funder match
How AFFIRM CARES stacks up for Riverside Youth Coding Academy.
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AFFIRM CARES
EIN 84-2053318
Fit score
84
Fit analysis
Why this funder ranked where it did against the sample org's mission and programs.
AFFIRM CARES appears to be a strong prospect for Riverside Youth Coding Academy based on the available evidence. The funder has a clear giving pattern in the grantee’s likely service area: 45.9% of total grant dollars have gone to California, including 8 grants totaling $76,000 in San Francisco and 4 grants totaling $33,000 in Oakland. That geographic record is highly material because Riverside Youth Coding Academy’s described model is explicitly Bay Area-oriented, with mentors from local Bay Area tech companies and partnership opportunities in Oakland and San Francisco school districts. Programmatically, the match is also strong: AFFIRM CARES funds tech education, tech education and training, financial literacy, workforce development, and economic empowerment, and has supported comparable organizations such as Rewriting the Code, Girlstart, Girls Who Code, Per Scholas, The Last Mile, 10000 Degrees, and Junior Achievement. The main limiting factor is missing grantee data on budget, age, staff size, and exact headquarters/operating footprint, which prevents a full organizational-fit confirmation. Even so, based on mission and geography, this is worth pursuing as a priority prospect.
Strategic framing
Position Riverside Youth Coding Academy as a practical economic-opportunity engine for Bay Area youth rather than simply a coding nonprofit. The strongest framing is that the organization removes cost barriers, builds job-relevant technical skills, connects students to real employers, and creates early paid work experience that expands access to the innovation economy for students who are typically excluded from it. If accurate, explicitly connect the model to underserved students, first-generation college pathways, career navigation, and financial confidence from earning and managing income.
What's working
- Direct alignment with AFFIRM CARES’ documented tech education and workforce-development giving
- Strong likely match to the funder’s actual Bay Area grant geography, especially Oakland and San Francisco
- Paid teen apprenticeship pipeline differentiates the organization from coding-enrichment programs and ties learning to economic opportunity
- School-day, after-school, and summer delivery model suggests depth, continuity, and practical community embeddedness
- Mentor network from Bay Area tech companies offers a credible corporate-engagement story likely to resonate with a corporate foundation
What's marginal
- The grantee’s exact headquarters, legal details, and operating geography are not fully specified; Bay Area fit is inferred rather than formally documented.
- No budget, staff, or age data is available for the grantee, so comparison to AFFIRM CARES’ typical grantee profile is incomplete.
- The grantee description strongly supports tech education and workforce development, but less clearly supports AFFIRM CARES’ financial literacy emphasis.
- No known relationships or connections to AFFIRM CARES staff or board members were provided.
- Application process details are missing, so access strategy may require research or warm outreach rather than a standard submission.
Programs that match
- Tech Education / STEM Education
- Workforce Development / Economic Empowerment
- Financial Literacy / Financial Inclusion
- Community Vitality / Vibrant Communities
What we'd want to confirm
- Can the organization substantiate Bay Area service geography, especially Oakland and/or San Francisco, in a way that matches the funder’s actual grant history?
- Does the organization have enough operating scale and financial stability to look credible relative to AFFIRM CARES’ typical grantee profile?
- Can the proposal credibly articulate financial empowerment outcomes alongside coding and apprenticeships?
- Is there a discoverable application pathway, or will success depend on relationship-based outreach?
Suggested next steps
- Prioritize AFFIRM CARES as a high-value small-gift corporate foundation prospect, especially if Riverside Youth Coding Academy operates in Oakland, San Francisco, or the broader Bay Area.
- Verify and document the grantee’s exact 501(c)(3) legal name, EIN, service geography, annual budget, staff count, and years of operation before outreach.
- Frame the request around free tech education plus paid apprenticeship pathways for underserved youth, emphasizing economic mobility, equitable access to tech careers, and Bay Area community impact.
- Add a financial capability component to the case if truthful: for example, first paycheck literacy, banking basics, savings, budgeting, or college/career financial planning for teen apprentices.
- Use Bay Area employer engagement as a differentiator; AFFIRM CARES is likely to respond to a model that connects local tech talent pipelines to underserved students.
- Request $10,000 for a clearly defined, single-year program outcome such as a cohort of apprentices, summer coding pathway, or school-year expansion in Oakland/San Francisco.
- Research whether any existing mentors, corporate volunteers, or board supporters have ties to Affirm or to AFFIRM CARES board members such as Chris Reyes, Katherine Adkins, Scott Astrada, or Ulrico Izaguirre.
- If no formal application exists, pursue concise relationship-building outreach that references AFFIRM CARES’ prior support for Bay Area financial literacy and tech education organizations.
Generated by Kindora's AI from the funder's public 990 filings, public website, and aggregated public grant history.
Funder snapshot
Capacity and giving footprint at a glance — drawn from the latest public 990 filings.
Total assets
$225k
Annual giving
$281k
Geographic scope
National
47% in CA
Application mode
Not specified
| Grant size | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Range across recent grants | $8k | $10k | $10k |
Affirm Cares supports efforts that promote financial inclusion, economic opportunity, and community resilience, with a focus on programs that help underserved communities access fair and transparent financial products and services.
Source: Latest public IRS Form 990 / 990-PF filings and aggregated public grant histories.
Focus areas
Themes Kindora extracted from the funder's public profile, program pages, and grant history.
Programmatic focus
Funding philosophy
Beneficiary types
Source: Public funder websites, public program pages, and AI synthesis of public 990 filings.
Recent giving signals
A look at where this funder has placed grants recently — useful for benchmarking and warm-intro paths.
No notable grantees pulled yet for this funder. The funder's stated focus areas are below — Kindora updates this as new public 990s are filed.
Stated focus areas (from public profile)
- financial literacy
- economic empowerment
- community development
- disaster relief
Source: Public 990 grant lists and the funder's own published program descriptions.
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