Delaware · Nonprofit
OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC
OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,624,692 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($595,644). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Open Environmental Data Inc does
Mission
The mission of open environmental data, inc. (oedp) is to reimagine the way we share and use environmental and scientific data and to ensure that, as scientific data proliferates, it is usable within a social, cultural, and political context. We develop management practices and collaborative governance structures to make environmental data from diverse data streams more accessible, digestible, and available to everyone.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public environmental data partners: in 2025, oedp co-founded the public environmental data partners (pedp), a member coalition of environmental justice and policy organizations, researchers, and archivists who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation. Oedp staff members lead or co-lead the advocacy, fundraising, governance, and tools development working groups. Pedp has three key pillars of work: data and tool preservation, building better tools, and strengthening data governance, advocacy & public engagement. We have preserved over 400 datasets and stood up 5 tools that had been taken offline.
$234,299 spent33% of program spendingCommunity data stewardship: oedp co-creates new tools and strategies with frontline communities for governing and sharing environmental data safely with each other, their governments, researchers, and others, ultimately to advance trust, meaningful change, and accountability. In 2025, we published the community data playbook, which provides case studies and plays for how to better steward environmental data. We also published a digitial companion in the form of a living resource library, as well as several zines, and held several public workshops.
$293,233 spent41% of program spendingDigitcore: in 2025, oedp launched the digitial toolkit for collaborative environmental research, or digitcore. The toolkit outlines challenges, problems, and phenomena experienced or observed by community organizations, researchers, and open source technologists working on collaborative environmental research. It includes values, themes, patterns, solutions, and resources, and offers technologists and researchers collaborating on open infrastructure an interactive tool to help make decisions about tools, modes of interaction, research design, and process.
$97,533 spent14% of program spendingResearch and policy, presented through opportunity briefs which highlight places for change in environmental data and governance that can be implemented by government, researchers, designers, and others. We place these briefs directly in the hands of the people who can affect change through our partnerships and workshops. Opportunity briefs are created with our brain trusts, a 7-10 person, multi-sector circle of people who come together in discussion before each brief is crafted.
$86,184 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $711,249.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $281k to $1.1M (+275%).
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 ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (68% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Brittany Janis
Executive director
Board chair
Karien Bezuidenhout
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $427k → $603k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DATA 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 58% · 2022 71% · 2023 58% — 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $483k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 234 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 234 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC?
- OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,624,692 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($595,644). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,624,692 in grants to OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC?
- GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $595,644 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing