Georgia · Nonprofit
OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC
OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $819,520 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($764,520). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $820k
- Net assets
- $55k
What Open Science Hardware Foundation Inc does
Mission
We exist to enable scientists to create and share new scientific hardware openly online that anyone is freely able to use and modify.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Gosh community - the global open science hardware community supports open science hardware (osch) by convening meetings such as the gathering for open science hardware (gosh), undertaking comunity projects and activities, and providing a forum for the community. In 2023, oshf sponsored the gosh community coordinator, who spent time and resources working alongside the oshf board, gosh council and community to run monthly welcome calls, community meetings, gosh community newsletter and maintained the forum and social media. They supported community working groups to establish a gosh ambassador programme and a gosh project directory. In addition, oshf supported the gosh council to establish a constitution and governance structure; funded 19 stem workshops to educate students and members of the public with open science hardware; supported 13 events and projects promoting or advancing open science hardware within a specific discipline.
$209,353 spentof which $90,326 as grants92% of program spendingFs drexel - oshf fiscally sponsored a workshop led by researchers at drexel university on supporting open science hardware in academia, which led to a public report on this topic aimed at researchers, research institutions and funders.
$14,131 spentof which $2,600 as grants6% of program spendingGlobal gosh - global gosh brought together 80 of the most active thought leaders in open science hardware globally for a four day meeting in panama, featuring talks, interactive discussions, technology workshops and sessions to plan for how to make open science hardware adopted across disciplines. In 2023, oshf funded a graphical report of the workshop and web hosting for media outputs.
$5,078 spentof which $4,500 as grants2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $228,562.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $376k to $143k (−62%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $342k → $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 99% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 660 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC?
- OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $819,520 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($764,520). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $819,520 in grants to OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC?
- ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $764,520 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing