Open Source Project for Network Data Access Protocol
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050514540
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Providence, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4012841304
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Computer Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $985,957
- Expenses
- $1,104,236
- Assets
- $1,036,729
- Liabilities
- $58,947
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES GALLAGHER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES GALLAGHER (PRESIDENT): $214,536 total reported compensation
- DANIEL HOLLOWAY (TREASURER): $186,136 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The opendap protocol provides a discipline-neutral means of requesting and providing data across the world wide web. The goal is to allow end users, whoever they may be, to access immediately whatever data they require in a form they can use, all while using applications they already possess and are familiar with. In the field of oceanography, opendap has already helped the research community make significant progress towards this end. Ultimately, it is hoped, opendap will be a fundamental component of systems which provide machine-to-machine interoperability with semantic meaning in a highly distributed environment of heterogeneous datasets.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operation of contracts to develop open-source data access protocol (dap) to freely facilitate the exchange of science data over the internet to benefit government agencies, research scientists and the general public. Some of the major accomplishments are as follows: nasa: raytheon collaborative project integrating the opendap 'hyrax' server into the nasa general application platform (ngap) suite of cloud-based web services for the nasa earth science data and information system (esdis).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.9%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.9% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $898K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $215K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.