Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721613215
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Beaverton, OR, USA
- Phone
- 8024780186
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,129
- Expenses
- $90,238
- Assets
- $224,669
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Angelos Tzotsos (President)
People named in this filing
- Codrina Maria Ilie (Director)
- Vicky Vergara (Director)
- Marco Bernasocchi (Director)
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
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.
What it reported doing in 2025
The following more detailed goals support the overall mission: To provide resources for foundation projects - eg. infrastructure, funding, legal. To promote freely available geodata - free software is useless without data. To promote the use of open source software in the geospatial industry (not just foundation software) - eg. PR, training, outreach. To encourage the implementation of open standards and standards-based interoperability in foundation projects. To ensure a high degree of quality in foundation projects in order to build and preserve the foundation "brand". To make foundation and related software more accessible to end users - eg. binary "stack" builds, cross package documentation. To provide support for the use of OSGeo software in education via curriculum development, outreach, and support. To encourage communication and cooperation between OSGeo communities on different language (eg. Java/C/Python) and operating system (eg. Win32, Unix, MacOS) platforms. To support use and contribution to foundation projects from the worldwide community through internationalization of software and community outreach. To operate an annual OSGeo Conference, possibly in cooperation with related efforts (eg. EOGEO). To award the Sol Katz award for service to the OSGeo community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.8%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.49; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $90K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.