Open Imagery Network Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, radiant earth continued to expand access to open geospatial data and deepen community engagement, achieving significant milestones through source cooperative, the cloud-native geospatial forum (cng), and a growing portfolio of partnerships.source cooperative reached a major milestone, growing to over 3 petabytes of data, 6 times the volume hosted at the end of 2024. This growth was driven in part by contributions of climate data and collections from partner organizations, reflecting source's evolving role as a trusted home for high-value datasets. The community also grew substantially: by october, source counted 3,785 individual users and 133 publishing organizations representing an 83% increase in publishing organizations. Monthly request volume surged from 3 million to an average of 150 million, a 50-fold increase. Data hosted on source is now referenced in over 750 places in code on github, a testament to its growing adoption by the developer and research communities. To further improve usability, we partnered with development seed to launch an entirely new front end for source and continued working with collaborators to build viewers for parquet, csv, and pmtiles data formats, making source even more accessible to users across skill levels. We also launched the great data products podcast, featuring conversations with data practitioners about the craft and ergonomics of data.cng hosted its inaugural in-person conference, bringing together close to 250 participants from around the world to shape the future of the geospatial industry. Experts at nvidia, meta, google, planet, the world bank, the New York times, and others using geospatial data and ai to solve some of the world's most pressing challenges were all present. The response was overwhelming, with 95% of attendees expressing enthusiasm for a follow-up event, and we are planning a second conference for october 2026. We convened a remarkable group of organizations, including the advanced research + invention agency, x, the moonshot factory, nvidia, earth genome, [c]worthy, place, open climate fix, cybercolombia, asterisk labs, and the data foundation, for a gathering focused on climate data production, governance, sharing, sustainable funding models, and ai. We also co-organized in-person community events for the global stacspec and zarr communities in rome and contributed to a side-event at london climate action week focused on connecting domain experts with climate action opportunities, a highlight of the year for our team.we continued our partnership with taylor geospatial to support fields of the world, which has grown from a benchmark training dataset into a comprehensive open-source ecosystem for automated global field boundary detection for global agriculture and land use. Our work to advance data interoperability continued in partnership with nasa and the committee on earth observation satellites. We published a white paper on emergent standards in collaboration with the institutional architecture lab.expanding our commitment to workforce and community development, we ran a workshop on geospatial workforce development needs at the yale center for geospatial solutions.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: $10.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
• Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -61.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 24.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings