Open Copyright Education Advisory Network Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
931565901
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Truro, MA, USA
Phone
9178372106
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$8,284
Expenses
$4,283
Assets
$13,785
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rina Elster Pantalony (President and Chair)
  • Sharon Farb (Vice-President)
  • Melissa Levine (Vice-President (former))

People named in this filing

  • Tom Clareson (Board member)
  • Greg Cram (Board member)
  • Sandra Enimil (Board member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

With the jolting events of the COVID-19 crisis, and out of sheer necessity, libraries, archives and museums are required to move boldly and with confidence to ensure that copyright protected materials and objects in their collections can be shared and communicated digitally in safe and lawful ways. Our vision is to educate and inform the cultural heritage community about copyright and copyright adjacent issues, recognizing that they are foundational to our networked, digital world. By expanding our educational audience to include all professionals working in cultural heritage, we find strength in scale, skill, community and sustainability.

What it reported doing in 2025

This past year we held nine online copyright learning events with an average of approximately 250 registered participants, and with only approximately 20% attrition, thereby reaching a national audience of more than 1800 professionals working in libraries, archives and museums. These metrics suggest that even without an increase in activities OCEAN is scaling impact.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 79
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 48.3%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.22; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -30.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -48.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.