New Hampshire · Nonprofit
OPEN SKY INC
OPEN SKY INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,811 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($105,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $203k
- Net assets
- $-21150
What Open Sky Inc does
Mission
From our organizing document: Open Sky is a non-profit founded in August of 2021 organized to promote the mental health and physical wellbeing of New Hampshire's incarcerated population and to cultivate the possibilities of incarceration toward desistance, re-integration and the sharpest possible reduction of recidivism through the introduction of the skill-based discipline of Acting. Open Sky, Inc. is a non-profit corporation that shall operate exclusively for educational and mental health purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future Federal tax code. The NTEE Code we used in our 1023 is 140.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In carrying out our exempt purpose in 2025, Open Sky held, within the NH State Prison, acting classes that met four times per week for 2-3 hours per day working with an acting ensemble comprised of beginner and advanced students. We have a cohort of about 20 inmates participating as actors plus about 35 inmates involved with technical and set building. According to the Key Informant Interviews conducted by JSI , Open Sky participants experience: Increased self-awareness; an increased sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence; increased self-control/decrease impulsivity; improved speech, increased eye contact and improved communication skills; increased empathy and thoughtfulness; ability to think things through and more engagement with others; the ability to find comfort in an uncomfortable situation; an improved way of treating others. Finally, we started a grassroots effort to build a bridge project between incarceration and reintegration starting from skill sets established in our program toward co-operative opportunities focused on livable wage employment and housing opportunities post incarceration. Please visit our website at www.openskynh.org. Program service…
$96,173 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,173.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $49k to $35k (−28%).
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.
99% of OPEN SKY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $88k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 SKY 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 SKY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 SKY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of OPEN SKY INC'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 $73k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 SKY INC has grown faster than half of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like OPEN SKY 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN SKY 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 SKY INC?
- OPEN SKY INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,811 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($105,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPEN SKY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $202,811 in grants to OPEN SKY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN SKY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN SKY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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