Open Hand Studios Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262260267
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7738780533
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $900
- Assets
- $75,453
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- PAUL CHRISTIANS (EXEC DIR/PRE)
- JEFF DEKOCK (CREATIVE DIR)
- MUAFFAQ HAZZA (MEMBER OF BO)
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
To create museum exhibits and virtual media to educate the public about the cultural heritage of impoverished communities. Profits from these exhibits will be returned to the impoverished communities. The organization will also support other public charities by providing quality, reduced rate exhibit media services and assisting impoverished communities with water development projects.
What it reported doing in 2025
Creating museum exhibits and virtual media to educate the public about the cultural heritage of impoverished communities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 2 of 2 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.