Open Insulin Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871390995
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Rating
48
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Biological & Life Sciences

Reported finances

Revenue
$132,435
Expenses
$121,267
Assets
$197,426

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Anthony Di Franco (President - Secretary Board Member)

People named in this filing

  • Anthony Di Franco (President - Secretary Board Member)
  • Michael Arent (Treasurer - Board Member)
  • David Anderson (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

Research develop disseminate and promote open source technologies organizational structures and other goods services and information useful for the practice of disintermediated production and distribution of medicine. Priority is given to developing a model for production and distribution of insulin by community-based third parties. Medicine is not directly produced or distributed and there is no direct relationship between activities and benefit to individuals in need of medicine.

What it reported doing in 2025

Business Activities: Continued educational scientific and charitable work in open source technology for health small scale energy and transportation and accessible computation information and organizational systems. Work in 2025 included continued research in developing open source systems in accessible declarative software low cost and low maintenance turbomachinery and electric machines and prototyping components of an open source low cost accessible pulsed red infrared light system which may be of use in treating dementia and related conditions.

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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 113.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.