Open Geospatial Consortium Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
043245144
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Arlington, VA, USA
Phone
5086479385
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,949,998
Expenses
$6,641,610
Assets
$6,681,416
Liabilities
$7,174,921

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PETER RABLEY (CEO - AS OF 5/2024)

Highest reported compensation

  • SCOTT SIMMONS (CSO, SECRETARY): $246,385 total reported compensation
  • MITZI OSTERHOUT (CFO, TREASURER): $213,730 total reported compensation
  • PETER RABLEY (CEO - AS OF 5/2024): $172,903 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To serve as a global forum for the collaboration of developers and users of spatial data products and services, and to advance the development of international standards for geospatial interoperability.

What it reported doing in 2024

Open geospatial consortium, inc. Is engaged in the development and promotion of advanced open systems geoprocessing standards to support the implementation of national and global information infrastructures. More than 500 members benefited from the programs. Ogc has 4 core programs that enable us to innovate and deliver high quality standards for the geospatial community. These programs are as follows: standards program: in the ogc standards program the technical committee and planning committee work in a formal consensus process to arrive at approved (or "adopted") ogc standards. Learn about the standards that have been approved so far, and see the lists of products that implement these standards. Interoperability program: a global, innovative, hands-on prototyping and testing program designed to accelerate interface development and validation, and bring interoperability to the market. Learn about the different initiatives currently under way, how they are organized, and how you can participate. Compliance program: the ogc compliance program provides the resources, procedures, and policies for improving software implementations' compliance with ogc standards. The compliance program provides an on-line free testing facility, a process for certification and branding of compliant products, and coordination of a vibrant community that develops and supports test scripts. The compliance program also runs plugfests, which are short term events for increasing interoperability among vendors' products. Communications and outreach program: the ogc and its members offer resources to help technology developers and users take advantage of the ogc's open standards. Technical documents, training materials, test suites, reference implementations and other interoperability resources developed in ogc interoperability initiatives are available on our resource pagehttp://wwwdev.opengeospatial.org/resources. In addition, the ogc and its members support publications, workshops, seminars and conferences to help technology developers, integrators and procurement managers introduce ogc plug and play capabilities into their architectures.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 48
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.07; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -43.4% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $246K · 23 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.