Hack Club: Investing in the future
Hack Club is a 21st century cultural institution, run by teenagers for teenagers, that prizes technical skills, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a rigorous dedication to building real things in the real world that solve real problems.
Led by young engineers, with early backing from the 21st century’s most iconic creators, Hack Club is already in 2 percent of US schools, and represents the largest network of technical teens in the world.
Each day, new projects are shipped, new lines of code are written, and new friendships are forged through collaborative, problem-solving technical projects happening at Hack Club.
With your support, Hack Club can grow from 1,000s to 10,000s of teen hackers, bringing free computer science education, a hacker mindset, and an equal shot at success to every teenager, regardless of where they’re from, how they identify, or what their parents do.
Fewer than half US highschools offer CS classes
With an annual budget less than a single, small public highschool, Hack Club brings CS education to thousands of teenagers. Our goal: become the Girl and Boy Scouts of the 21st century.
Hack Clubbers at SpaceX, July 2021: See the video
At Hack Club
16K
Teenagers in our online community learning, building, and shipping together400
After school Hack Clubs in 22 countries led by teen leaders330
Teen-led hackathons and organisations on Hack Club Bank25
AMA conversations with Gwynne Shotwell, Patrick Collison, Chris Cox, Elon Musk, Elan Lee and many moreOur Vision
In the next ten years, Hack Club will discover, foster and inspire thousands more teenagers to become highly technical. We help shape the values of these future leaders, modeling and incentivizing them to be curious, humble, kind, optimistic problem solvers.
Today: 400 Hack Clubs | 2031: 10,000 Hack Clubs
Our Philosophy
For and by teenagers
Hack Club is founded and run by teenagers.
Board of builders
Our board members are all 21st century founders, innovators, and builders.
Engineering leadership
Most of our team is technical and are building what they wish they had.
Highly technical
Hack Clubbers code in languages like Rust, Typescript, Haskell, Go and ship projects people use.
Accessible by all
All teens, regardless of background, join Hack Club.
Transparency
Hack Club is the only nonprofit in the country with 100% financial transparency
Eleeza, a 16-year-old Hack Clubber from London, UK, created "Double-Edged Blade: All Under Control”, a 2D visual novel video game! She created, illustrated and wrote the entire thing, and along the way she posted updates and asked Hack Clubbers for storyline suggestions all on her personal channel at Hack Club.
Hear from Hack Clubbers
"Hack Club is awesome”
“There’s so much positivity”
"[Hack Club] has given me the confidence to imagine, build, and explore.”
Leading a Hack Club at her school
Hosting an AMA with Elon Musk
"Really awesome"
Our Donor Network
Above $1 Million
Under $200k
No offense! Aiden, 16, used Tensorflow to trigger a photo every time he gives his device the middle finger. It’s a parody of selfie culture, and a pretty popular ship at Hack Club!
Hack Club in the news
"After raising $5M for The Fuller Project and taking it from a start-up to an established organization, I knew that this was my chance to help build something poised to make real change in our 21st century world - and, importantly, with girls at the forefront."
— Forbes
"In addition to allowing the public to hold these organizations accountable, transparent finances help founders and board members make the right decisions in the first place since they know they’re operating under public scrutiny."
— Chronicle of Philanthropy
"Teenagers across the country are forming hacking clubs, attending hackathons and trying to spread the word that hacking doesn’t always mean breaking into government servers or stealing bank data."
— Wall Street Journal
"Do you know Zach Latta?” ... “You know he rebuilt Yo’s backend. He’s baller.”
— California Sunday Magazine
"Zach Latta found many people who were willing to listen, leaving high school to move to San Francisco on his own to start a nonprofit called Hack Club."
— CBS NewsOur Ask
Hack Club invites the 21st century’s leading thinkers, builders and disrupters to join our small, core network of donors with a gift.
Founded in 2014, Hack Club grew 700 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Hack Club’s team of engineers can’t keep up with demand.
With your gift, Hack Club could increase engineering support to serve thousands more teenagers, with a strong focus on serving those who face additional barriers to contributing their talents to the world.
Your gift will:
- Create hundreds more Hack Clubs in high schools and communities across the country and world
- Inspire a problem-solving mindset and a hacker identity, where teenagers are empowered to build what they want to see in the world
- Make Hack Club the best place to be a teenager on the internet, incentivizing a shift among teenagers from consumers to creators of technology
- Launch special projects, in which Hack Clubbers collaborate with SpaceX, Vercel, Cloudflare, Replit, Dogecoin and others
- Popularize transparent accounting, open source building, and high-integrity leadership
- Grow the team, mostly engineers
- Host dozens of in-person events, including our summer adventure
- Extend mini-grants of hardware and internet access to hundreds of teenagers
- Bring computer science and engineering skills to thousands more teenagers
Hack Club's 2022 Vision
$5 Million
$2.5 Million
$1 Million
$500k and under
Thank you for your consideration!
Sincerely,
“Hack Club is the organization I wish I had when I was a teenager. In 2017, I joined as a founding board member, and I’ve seen firsthand the leadership team act with integrity and transparency since Day 1. Founder Zach Latta and COO Christina Asquith are efficient, responsible and disciplined stewards of every dollar, and I've proudly grown my donations over the years.
With major support, I am confident Hack Club will change the world. I have met dozens of teenagers involved in Hack Club, and seen how it already is having an enormous impact in their lives.
Hack Club is inspiring a generation of teenagers to become highly-technical builders, innovators and problem-solvers — and it is making the path to success accessible to all young people regardless of background. I believe in Hack Club, and I'm looking forward to staying involved for the long term. I also personally intend to continue and grow my financial support of their mission."
— Tom Preston-Werner, Co-founder, Preston-Werner Ventures / Co-founder and former CEO, GitHub