Maryland · Nonprofit
ORCID INC
ORCID INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $19,900 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($19,900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Orcid Inc does
Mission
Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. We provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and affiliations. We provide this service to help people find information and to simplify reporting and analysis. We do this by providing three interrelated services:- the orcid id: a unique, persistent identifier free of charge to researchers- an orcid record connected to the orcid id, and - a set of application programming interfaces (apis), as well as the services and support of communities of practice that enable interoperability between an orcid record and member organizations so researchers can choose to allow connection of their id with their affiliations and contributions
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Researchers and scholar persistent identifier program - creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between orcid and other research information systems to solve the name ambiguity problem in research communications.
$4,654,870 spentof which $290,504 as grants$6,466,512 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,654,870.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.8M to $5.0M (+30%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of ORCID INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
Chief executive
Christian Shillum
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ORCID 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.
Where its funders are
ORCID INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
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
ORCID INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ORCID INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $879k on record.
- Department of Energy$415k
- Department of Health and Human Services$189k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$91k
- Environmental Protection Agency$77k
- Department of Agriculture$52k
- Department of the Interior$25k
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 ORCID 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 ORCID 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 ORCID INC?
- ORCID INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $19,900 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($19,900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORCID INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $19,900 in grants to ORCID INC.
- Who is the largest funder of ORCID INC?
- ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORCID INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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