California · Nonprofit
OPEN UP RESOURCES
OPEN UP RESOURCES (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,642,677 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($730,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Open Up Resources does
Mission
The mission of Open Up Resources (our) is to increase equity in education by making excellent curricula freely available to districts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Description of our's programs: when Open Up Resources began their journey in 2016, school district leaders and teachers were struggling with a lack of common core state standards (ccss)-aligned, comprehensive core english language arts (ela) and mathematics materials. These standards raised the bar for teaching and learning materials, yet they were largely unavailable in the market. In september 2017, the nonprofit edreports, a "consumer reports" for instructional materials, highlighted these gaps in the textbook market, finding that most textbooks were not aligned to the standards, despite having had since 2012 to do so. Open Up Resources debuted with a middle school mathematics curriculum and an elementary english language arts program, both of which were rated best-in-class in their respective categories on edreports. It was the first time comprehensive, core curricula that were fully accessible were also deemed high quality. Our disrupted the market, proving that free and high quality were not mutually exclusive. Now, with a complete k-12 core curricula offering, school and district leaders and teachers no longer struggle from a lack of high-quality ccss-aligned materials.…
$16,350,226 spentof which $10,000 as grants$27,229,610 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,350,226.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $36M to $60M (+65%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of OPEN UP RESOURCES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Jason Nicholas Isaacs
CEO
Board chair
Karen Cowe
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $578k → $635k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 UP RESOURCES’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 UP RESOURCES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 UP RESOURCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 41% · 2022 24% — 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
9% of OPEN UP RESOURCES's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 5% 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 FY2022, 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
OPEN UP RESOURCES draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $683k 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.
Against its field
OPEN UP RESOURCES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding OPEN UP RESOURCES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- DE$2.7M
- MA$802k
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 UP RESOURCES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN UP RESOURCES: 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 UP RESOURCES?
- OPEN UP RESOURCES (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,642,677 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($730,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPEN UP RESOURCES have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $3,642,677 in grants to OPEN UP RESOURCES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN UP RESOURCES?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $730,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN UP RESOURCES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 20 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