Code for America (Cfa) Labs Inc
Oakland, CA
$1.3MTax year 2025
Project support to expand digital products to make government services and benefits simple, and accessible.
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The Elma Foundation (US) Grants
Private foundation · EIN 92-0320911 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2025
Future commitments are grants the foundation has reported but not yet paid.
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Original filing text
Reported organization name: THE ELMA FOUNDATION (US)
Giving by tax year
Year-level totals across every reported grant in this profile — a summary, not a filter. The awards further down are the largest individual grants across all years, not each year's complete list.
| Tax year | Grants paid | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | $2.8M |
| 2024 | 1 | $1M |
Where The Elma Foundation (US) gives
States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.
Largest reported grants
Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.
Code for America (Cfa) Labs Inc
San Francisco, CA
$1MTax year 2024
Project support to expand digital products to make government services and benefits simple, and accessible.
The Door - A Center of Alternatives Inc
New York, NY
$500KTax year 2025
General support for a community-based organization that serves youth ages 12-21 in the areas of health, education, the arts, personal development, and career services.
Thorn
El Segundo, CA
$500KTax year 2025
General support for a technology organization seeking to stem the spread of child sexual abuse material on the internet and arm frontline responders at scale with the technology to rescue children faster.
Alliance for Safety and Justice
Oakland, CA
$400KTax year 2025
Project support for scaling safety, a joint venture by the alliance for safety and justice and community based public safety collective to transform U.S. public safety in five cities through subgrants to resident-led crime prevention programs.
Showing 5 of the 6 largest grants (6 reported in all).
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Figures are aggregated from The Elma Foundation (US)'s IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (2 filings on file, most recent tax year 2025). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.
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