Nevada · Nonprofit
OPENET INC
OPENET INC (Nevada) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,528,511 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ($1,792,995). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Openet Inc does
Mission
Training and basic support, and ongoing research to support best available science. Openet can be used by local or regional water managers, water users, local stakeholders, policymakers, growers, and corporates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Data production: building onto data previously produced for the entire western us from 2016 forward, in this tax period openet has generated and reviewed data for: the mississippi alluvial plain, decades of historical data for the states of or, ut, as well as the upper co river basin. Openet has also reviewed and pushed this data to the google earth engine public data catalog.
$1,701,471 spent$1,563,638 earned by the program112% of program spendingUi maintenance and updates: launch of the application programing interface occurred in this tax period, as well as maintenance and updates of ui platforms, including the api and the data explorer. Updates to these platforms are consistently implemented to improve speed and use experience. These improvements include updates to the geodatabase, cloud processing improvements, and updates to the data explorer backend.
Research: special research topics during this period include: accuracy assessments comparing openet data to ground based eddy-covariance data; daily low latency land surface temperature data generation/evaluation; model updates and improvements to account for persistent biases; methodology for developing effective prescription layer.
User support: during the tax period, openet has continued to provide support services to agencies and users across the us. This service comes in the form of data consulting services for data acquisition and application, in addition to services via hubspot ticket management system.
$-176,202 spent-12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,525,269.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $556k to $1.5M (+169%).
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: 2023 9% · 2024 5% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of OPENET INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Sara Larsen
CEO
Board chair
Luis Villa
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1.5M → $303k.
From the IRS filings of OPENET 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
OPENET INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 OPENET INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
OPENET INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
OPENET INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OPENET INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $711k on record — $476k federal, $235k state.
- Department of the Interior$476k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$235k
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 OPENET 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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPENET 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OPENET INC?
- OPENET INC (Nevada) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,528,511 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ($1,792,995). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPENET INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,528,511 in grants to OPENET INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPENET INC?
- ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $1,792,995 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPENET INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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