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OPEN CONNECTIVITY FOUNDATION INC

OPEN CONNECTIVITY FOUNDATION INC (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $217,412 to it, the largest being ALLSEEN ALLIANCE INC ($217,412). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$42k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$217k
Net assets
$26k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Open Connectivity Foundation Inc does

Mission

The mission of open connectivity foundation, inc. (ocf) is to define connectivity requirements and ensure interoperability of the billions of devices that will make up the emerging internet of things (iot).

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. 1. Specification developmentocf develops and publishes specifications, which define and promote communication and interoperability requirements for the "internet of things." to develop these specifications, ocf has established work groups to produce technical specifications and related documentation, consistent with the ocf mission statement. Ocf adopts and publishes final specifications through procedures specified in its bylaws and board resolutions. It has already published several versions available on its public website.

  2. 2. Open source project ocf sponsors open source projects to enable the development of open source software in support of the ocf specifications. Ocf is the sole sponsor to the iotivity.org open source project. Open source contributions can be initiated by members and the general public.

  3. 3. Certificationfollowing publication of specifications and open source projects, ocf has developed a formal certification process for those products that pass the certification requirements. Technical resources, such as software in binary and/or source code form, for validating compliance with specifications and open source projects have been produced and funded by ocf. The organization has also developed a test tool for testing against the specification and open source implementations. Plugfests and interop events were held that provide opportunities for members to test interoperability and validate compliance with specifications and open source projects. This activity is conducted by independent test labs world-wide.

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($149k)2018 Revenue 101 ($4.3M) Expenses 89 ($4.3M) Net assets 121 ($180k)2019 Revenue 81 ($3.5M) Expenses 62 ($3.0M) Net assets 452 ($673k)2020 Revenue 35 ($1.5M) Expenses 34 ($1.6M) Net assets 380 ($566k)2021 Revenue 21 ($915k) Expenses 21 ($994k) Net assets 327 ($487k)2022 Revenue 7 ($305k) Expenses 8 ($375k) Net assets 278 ($414k)2023 Revenue 3 ($107k) Expenses 6 ($270k) Net assets 136 ($202k)2024 Revenue 1 ($57k) Expenses 3 ($158k) Net assets 68 ($102k)2025 Revenue 1 ($42k) Expenses 2 ($118k) Net assets 17 ($26k)
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Revenue (1)Expenses (2)Net assets (17)Peer revenue range

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 $1.8M to $1.2M (−35%).

$2.2M
$2.3M
$1.8M
$1.2M
$753k
$499k
$274k
$154k
$27k
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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

0% of OPEN CONNECTIVITY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$512k
’17
$32k
’18
$493k
’19
−$107k
’20
−$79k
’21
−$70k
’22
−$163k
’23
−$100k
’24
−$76k
’25
2.8
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.

Chief executive

Aja Murray

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed141212987533
Joined·+3+5+1+3+4+0+0+0
No longer listed·55445220
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
$217k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of OPEN CONNECTIVITY 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.

Where its funders are

OPEN CONNECTIVITY FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.

CA

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

Against its field

OPEN CONNECTIVITY FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−182% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−44% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In Oregon

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

2
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 OPEN CONNECTIVITY FOUNDATION INC?
OPEN CONNECTIVITY FOUNDATION INC (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $217,412 to it, the largest being ALLSEEN ALLIANCE INC ($217,412). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OPEN CONNECTIVITY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $217,412 in grants to OPEN CONNECTIVITY FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of OPEN CONNECTIVITY FOUNDATION INC?
ALLSEEN ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $217,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OPEN CONNECTIVITY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 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