Colorado · Nonprofit
OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION
OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,941 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($216,183). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $806k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $494k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Open Media Foundation does
Mission
Open Media Foundation (omf) is an innovative media and technology nonprofit organization dedicated to putting the power of the media in the hands of the people, enabling everyone to engage in their community and bring about the change they wish to see in the world.we empower nonprofits, governments, and individuals to shift the media conversation (and thus social awareness) from the corporate interests of our commercial media system towards the human interests of an open, diverse, engaged public. To accomplish our mission, we begin with providing affordable, high-end media and technology services. We follow up by offering training and tools that enable everyone to represent their own voice in the media conversation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Web and design: Open Media Foundation designs and develops websites that help nonprofit and government organizations build a stronger community around their mission. With a process fine-tuned over hundreds of projects in the past decade we are experts at creating easy-to-maintain sites that produce real-world impact.
$118,095 spent$128,377 earned by the program22% of program spendingVideo and production: Open Media Foundation produces videos that are expertly crafted to transform the reach and impact of your organization. As an integrated media agency specializing in nonprofit and public sector clients, we ensure that you connect with your unique audience through stories that resonate. With omf's 50% matching grant, our clients don't have to compromise on quality.we are here to:- produce high definition videos that help you train, motivate, raise funds and increase awareness- optimize your videos for maximum impact through social media, strategic web placement, and local tv- expand your voice by reaching new audiences and inspiring them to support your mission
$197,334 spent$339,415 earned by the program36% of program spendingGovernment meetings: open media provides streaming and archiving services for state and local governments to make their meetings more accessible and searchable. Our software as a service is provided free of charge to rural governments serving populations under 5000 and at a small annual fee for medium and large governments, making every meeting viewable and searchable.
$176,974 spent$11,998 earned by the program32% of program spendingOther expenses of denver open media services.
$56,824 spent$193 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $549,227.
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.
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 $1.8M to $2.0M (+14%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2020 14% · 2021 10% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $40k → $33k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 MEDIA 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.
How concentrated its funding is
OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 MEDIA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 79% · 2019 70% · 2020 60% · 2021 40% · 2022 100% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
29% of OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $34k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $460k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 MEDIA FOUNDATION: 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 MEDIA FOUNDATION?
- OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,941 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($216,183). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $493,941 in grants to OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $216,183 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 9 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