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Open Lunar Foundation

OPEN LUNAR FOUNDATION's mission is to ensure a peaceful, cooperative, and sustainable human presence on the moon by fostering international cooperation, developing open standards, and advancing research

$133k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$60k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$933k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Open Lunar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$60k100%
FY20211$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Science & Tech$83k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2023.

BREAKING GROUND TRUST$60,000

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How do I get to Open Lunar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Open Lunar Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Open Lunar Foundation

How much does Open Lunar Foundation give?
Open Lunar Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $60,000, out of $132,534 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Open Lunar Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Science & Tech (100%).
Does Open Lunar Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Open Lunar Foundation based?
Open Lunar Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $166k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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