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OPC FOUNDATION

OPC FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE PAMELA HOWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.3M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$1.9M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Opc Foundation does

Mission

The foundation is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and events, records historical data and batch multi-vendor enterprise systems

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education and information activities: the foundation facilitates the exchange of information among interested parties to enhance the further collaboration of technical specifications for the opc interfaces. The foundation provides training seminars for members and the general public as well as facilitating demonstrations at trade shows of uses of the standards. The foundation publishes newsletters to inform the industry and the public about the state of engineering, application and developments concerning the technology

    $1,489,024 spent$488,546 earned by the program
    48% of program spending
  2. Maintenance and enhancement activities: the foundation performs or sponsors research and development to develop enhancements for the opc standard interface. The foundation coordinates research and development activities undertaken as cooperative and publication of interface specifications, development of engineer and conformance testing and other services and tools for the standard interface.

    $995,300 spent$2,221,161 earned by the program
    32% of program spending
  3. Certification and conformance testing: the foundation developed a worldwide conformance and certification program to test suppliers products for conformance to the opc standard interface. Certification and conformance testing of products is conducted by vendors desiring to obtain an opc certification. Certified products may use the name and certification mark

    $631,570 spent$129,835 earned by the program
    20% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,115,894.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 102 ($3.4M) Expenses 93 ($3.1M) Net assets 130 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 149 ($5.0M) Expenses 114 ($3.8M) Net assets 236 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 151 ($5.1M) Expenses 108 ($3.6M) Net assets 366 ($4.3M)2021 Revenue 147 ($5.0M) Expenses 120 ($4.0M) Net assets 451 ($5.2M)2022 Revenue 124 ($4.2M) Expenses 150 ($5.0M) Net assets 384 ($4.5M)2023 Revenue 112 ($3.8M) Expenses 161 ($5.3M) Net assets 249 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 134 ($4.5M) Expenses 146 ($4.9M) Net assets 223 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 127 ($4.3M) Expenses 149 ($5.0M) Net assets 165 ($1.9M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (127)Expenses (149)Net assets (165)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.1M to $4.5M (+44%).

$1.8M
$1.8M
$3.1M
$4.5M
$5.2M
$4.6M
$3.3M
$2.9M
$2.3M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
’17
$347k
’18
$1.2M
’19
$1.5M
’20
$986k
’21
−$773k
’22
−$1.6M
’23
−$307k
’24
−$669k
’25
3.2
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed101013131313141416
Joined·+0+3+2+0+4+3+1+6
No longer listed·00204214
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $3k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of OPC FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

OPC FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state in all.

CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like OPC FOUNDATION

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In Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 37%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds OPC FOUNDATION?
OPC FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE PAMELA HOWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OPC FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to OPC FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OPC FOUNDATION?
THE PAMELA HOWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OPC FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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