"Always inspiring interesting new projects"
Arianna, 16, KentuckyInvest in the future.
Empower the next generation.
Led by young engineers, Wack Club already reaches tens of thousands of teenagers. With your support, Wack Club can grow to hundreds of thousands more.
Your contribution is tax-deductible. Wack Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 81-2908499).
We back teens with big ideas.
In the next ten years, Wack Club will discover, foster, and inspire thousands more teenagers to use technical skills to solve problems.
Wack Club is always free for teenagers. With your support, Wack Club can bring free computer science education, a hacker mindset, and an equal shot at success to every teenager, regardless of where they are from.
Over time, Wack Clubbers will reshape societies as entrepreneurs, environmentalists, political leaders, activists, and policy makers. We help shape the values of these future leaders.
We need your support to make this vision a reality.
“With major support, I am confident Wack Club will change the world.”— Tom Preston-Werner, GitHub Co-founder
"I've met some of the best people"
Jason, 16, Texas
"In Wack Club I've found a home"
Sam, 17, Singapore
"Helped build me a strong coding foundation"
Abby, 15, Los Angeles
"Totally different from coding classes at school"
Adriano, 19, BrazilTo discuss a gift
Reach out directly.
Christina Asquith, Co-founder, COO, and Board Member
christina@wackclub.comSend physical checks
The Hack Foundation
8605 Santa Monica Blvd #86294, West Hollywood, CA, 90069
EIN: 81-2908499
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Community
Join our community of generous donors.
$5M - $10M
- Tom Preston-Werner (9x)
- Musk Foundation (6x)
$1M - $5M
- Dr. Lisa Su
- Michael Dell (3x)
- McGovern Foundation
- Craig Newmark (4x)
- Tobi Lutke
- Advanced Micro Devices
- The Libermans
$500k - $1M
- GitHub Education (6x)
- Argosy Foundation (5x)
- Endless Network (4x)
- FUTO (3x)
- Joe Liemandt
$200k - $500k
- Ron Conway (6x)
- Adam Ross (3x)
- Gwynne Shotwell
- Jack Dorsey
- Vitalik Buterin
$100k - $200k
- Quinn Slack (3x)
- Mitchell Hashimoto
- Proton Foundation
- Kellogg Foundation
- Pinkerton Foundation
* number in parentheses indicates gifts since 2018.
A few others who support Wack Club
Dylan Field, Founder, FigmaGuillermo Rauch, Founder, VercelTaylor Otwell, Creator of LaravelTheo Bleier, Technical Staff, SimileKevin Yang, Principal Researcher, MicrosoftAmjad Masad, Co-founder, ReplitConrad Kramer, Co-founder, WorkflowDavid Cramer, Co-founder, SentryMahmoud Abdelkader, CEO, Very Good SecurityBlake Lieberman, Partner, Rief Ventures
Impact stories
What your support enables.
Obrey started a Wack Club in his senior year at Kabulonga Boys' Secondary School. Soon, a dozen students were coding every week.
Thanks to our donor-funded laptop program, Wack Club sent him a MacBook Air. In his club, Obrey and his best friend Edward built robots that won Canada's Humanitarian Activist Award.
Obrey Muchena19, Zambia
Maggie joined Wack Club in 2021 and has since shipped projects from widgets to Raycast extensions.
"Wack Club inspired me to step outside my comfort zone and take on challenges I never previously would have - starting a CS Club at my school, co-hosting AMAs, and organizing Leland Hacks."
Maggie Liu17, California
“Wack Club helped me fall in love with creating and made me feel like I belong.”
Belle, 17, MalaysiaIn the news
As the largest network of technical teenagers, we are featured in global press.
Board of Directors
Stewardship with discipline and transparency.
Tom Preston-WernerCo-founder, GitHub
Quinn SlackCo-founder and CEO, Sourcegraph
Zach LattaFounder and Executive Director, Wack Club
Christina AsquithCo-founder and COO, Wack Club
Board advisor: John Abele (Founder, Boston Scientific)“Wack Club is the organization I wish I had when I was a teenager. In 2017, I joined as a founding board member, and I have 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 have proudly grown my donations over the years.”
— Tom Preston-Werner, Co-founder and former CEO, GitHubWhat your gift funds
Direct support for teenagers, clubs, and projects.
- Increase support to serve thousands more teenagers, with a strong focus on teens who face additional barriers.
- Create hundreds more Wack Clubs in high schools and communities across the world.
- Inspire a problem-solving mindset where teenagers build what they want to see.
- Host dozens of in-person events, including flagship summer adventures.
- Extend mini-grants of hardware and internet access to hundreds of teenagers.
- Grow the team, mostly engineers, to meet demand from teens worldwide.
Transparency
Financials and annual reports.
Starting in 2021, Wack Club has engaged with an external auditing firm and has audited financials through the current fiscal year.
Thank you
Wack Club invites leading thinkers, builders, and disrupters to join us.
We envision thousands of diverse Wack Club leaders in towns and cities across America and the world, connected online and self-organizing events and hackathons.
Christina Asquith
Co-founder & COOchristina@wackclub.comThe Hack Foundation
8605 Santa Monica Blvd #86294
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Christina Asquith, Co-founder and COO
Zach Latta, Founder and Executive Director