California · Nonprofit
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 240 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,681,253 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($6,357,868). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1k
- Funders on record
- 240
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $557k
What Opencollective Foundation does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to promote 1) charitable projects aimed at increasing access to educational resources and training 2) charitable projects aimed at creating a positive social impact and 3) charitable projects aimed at developing tools to improve civic participation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization's board elected to wind up during this reporting period and limited its charitable activities to preservation of the charitable value of its remaining assets and actions related to the wind up. Such activities included notifying the office of the attorney general of the state of california ("oag") of the board's election to wind up and dissolve.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The organization's board elected to wind up during this reporting period and limited its charitable activities to preservation of the charitable value of its remaining assets and actions related to the wind up. Such activities included notifying the office of the attorney general of the state of california ("oag") of the board's election to wind up and dissolve.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The decision to wind up was made to best advance the organization's exempt purposes with its remaining assets based on the loss of leadership and the declining ability of the organization to operate its charitable fiscal sponsorship program in a reasonably viable manner. The board determined that the remaining unrestricted assets would best be utilized by another public charity with greater resources to maximize the impact of those remaining assets. Due diligence and discussions began with such other charity, which was identified as the targeted recipient of remaining assets after the organization's debts and liabilities had all been paid, contingent on the oag's waiver of objections to this dissolution plan. The organization undertook an orderly wind down while waiting for the oag waiver, which had not yet been received in the reporting year. Final due diligence and negotiations with the targeted recipient charity will take place after receipt of the oag waiver.
$256,593 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $256,593.
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 2023 to 2024, from $20M to $815k (−96%).
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.
0% of OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 125 funders, grant income rose $161k → $14M.
52 of 240 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 240 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
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
64% 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 OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 93% · 2020 31% · 2021 32% · 2022 10% · 2023 42% — 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
31% of OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like OPENCOLLECTIVE 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 OPENCOLLECTIVE 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 OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION?
- OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 240 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,681,253 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($6,357,868). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 240 organizations giving $32,681,253 in grants to OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,357,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 240 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