Open Sky Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872356046
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Mont Vernon, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6032136463
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,752
- Expenses
- $96,174
- Assets
- $37,838
- Liabilities
- $58,988
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Broderick (President)
- Jeni Mahoney (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- John Broderick (President)
- Jeni Mahoney (Vice President)
- Cynthia Whitaker (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
From our organizing document: Open Sky is a non-profit founded in August of 2021 organized to promote the mental health and physical wellbeing of New Hampshire's incarcerated population and to cultivate the possibilities of incarceration toward desistance, re-integration and the sharpest possible reduction of recidivism through the introduction of the skill-based discipline of Acting. Open Sky, Inc. is a non-profit corporation that shall operate exclusively for educational and mental health purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future Federal tax code. The NTEE Code we used in our 1023 is 140.
What it reported doing in 2025
In carrying out our exempt purpose in 2025, Open Sky held, within the NH State Prison, acting classes that met four times per week for 2-3 hours per day working with an acting ensemble comprised of beginner and advanced students. We have a cohort of about 20 inmates participating as actors plus about 35 inmates involved with technical and set building. According to the Key Informant Interviews conducted by JSI , Open Sky participants experience: Increased self-awareness; an increased sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence; increased self-control/decrease impulsivity; improved speech, increased eye contact and improved communication skills; increased empathy and thoughtfulness; ability to think things through and more engagement with others; the ability to find comfort in an uncomfortable situation; an improved way of treating others. Finally, we started a grassroots effort to build a bridge project between incarceration and reintegration starting from skill sets established in our program toward co-operative opportunities focused on livable wage employment and housing opportunities post incarceration. Please visit our website at www.openskynh.org. Program service expenses listed reflect salary costs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -30.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.56; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.