Oregon · Nonprofit
OPEN SCHOOL INC
OPEN SCHOOL INC (Oregon) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,573,660 to it, the largest being OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation ($778,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Open School Inc does
Mission
The mission of open school, inc. Is to develop connection, capability, and confidence in disconnected youth through relationship-based, quality learning experiences that result in academic, personal, and community success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Step up program:during the year ended june 30, 2025, the step up program continued to provide school-year tutoring, mentoring, leadership development, advocacy, and summer program services for students enrolled at roosevelt, franklin, and leodis v. Mcdaniel high schools who areidentified as needing academic and social support to succeed in their public high school. The program focuses on intensive engagement with incoming 9th graders, with continued support through high school. Step up engages students in the summer prior to 9th grade and focuses on full, timely credit attainment and active student engagement in school to keep students on track to graduate. This program is funded by a combination of grants and contracts with portland public school district, the portland children's levy, private foundations, and indiviudal donors.
$1,463,876 spent$1,199,959 earned by the program48% of program spendingOpen school east:the open school east program, in partnership with centennial, gresham-barlow, parkrose, portland public, reynolds, and david douglas school districts, continued to deploy strategies designed to engage and accelerate off-track students in grades 9 through 12. Using early-warning indicators to identify young, marginalized students at risk of dropping out, the organization provides students with culturally inclusive, relationship-based, extended-day and -year school programming which focuses on engagement and skill-acceleration to prepare them for post-secondary success. Strategies include active recruitment of students, summer social-emotional leadership academy, restorative accountability, intensive family engagement, and preparation, emphasizing cultural identity, essential skills, social justice, and the arts. Staff from partner districts are provided professional development in best practices for engaging marginalized students, while assisting in teaching students at the school. The program is supported by the five partner school districts as well as private foundation and individual gifts.
$1,563,026 spent$679,317 earned by the program52% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,026,902.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $10M to $9.0M (−13%).
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 62% · 2018 83% · 2019 70% · 2020 66% · 2021 71% · 2022 77% · 2023 18% · 2024 18% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of OPEN SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Christine M Pitts Ph D
Executive director (interim)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $311k → $702k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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 SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
46% 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 SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 42% · 2019 21% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 29% · 2023 20% — 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
37% of OPEN SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
94% of OPEN SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 SCHOOL INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OPEN SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$1.3M
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$78k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$25k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS TO SUBRECIPIENTS$4k
- DISTRIBUTION TO LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS$1k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$623
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 SCHOOL 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN SCHOOL 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 SCHOOL INC?
- OPEN SCHOOL INC (Oregon) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,573,660 to it, the largest being OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation ($778,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPEN SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $4,573,660 in grants to OPEN SCHOOL INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN SCHOOL INC?
- OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $778,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN SCHOOL 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.
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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 42 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