Open Science Hardware Foundation

Legal name: Open Science Hardware Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844807996
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Atlanta, GA, United States
Phone
5042394642
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$8,345
Expenses
$81,658
Assets
$54,760
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHANNON DOSEMAGEN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • SHANNON DOSEMAGEN (PRESIDENT)
  • JENNIFER MOLLOY (TREASURER)
  • ALISON PARKER (SECRETARY)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Advancing open source instrumentation to accelerate science and benefit society

What it reported doing in 2024

Gosh community - the global open science hardware community supports open science hardware (osch) by convening meetings such as the gathering for open science hardware (gosh), undertaking comunity projects and activities, and providing a forum for the community. In 2024, oshf sponsored the gosh community coordinator, who spent time and resources working alongside the oshf board, gosh council and community to run monthly welcome calls, community meetings, gosh community newsletter and maintained the forum and social media. They also supported community working groups to run a gosh ambassador program. Oshf also sponsored the gosh web infrastructure.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 78.4%; rating input score 78

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -878.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -112.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -67.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -42.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $64K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.