Form 990 for tax year 2022
Filed by ORGANIZATION FOR ETHICAL SOURCE.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $398,766
- Total expenses
- $223,694
- Contributions and grants received
- $398,766
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $175,072
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $175,072
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $187,163
- Management and general expenses
- $36,155
- Fundraising expenses
- $376
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $187,163
Program services were 83.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$398,766
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3 · Investment income
total $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $156,250 · program services $125,000 · management and general $31,250
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $0
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $11,878 · program services $9,504 · management and general $2,374
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $50,000 · program services $50,000
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $0
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $0
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $1,500 · program services $1,500
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13 · Office expenses
total $0
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14 · Information technology
total $2,650 · program services $1,159 · management and general $1,491
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $0
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17 · Travel
total $0
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
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20 · Interest
total $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
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23 · Insurance
total $0
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24a · Other expenses: Dues & Subscriptions
total $614 · management and general $614
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24b · Other expenses: Postage and Shipping
total $424 · management and general $424
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24c · Other expenses: Merchant Service Fees
total $376 · fundraising $376
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24d · Other expenses: Bank Charges
total $1 · management and general $1
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24e · All other expenses
total $1 · management and general $1
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
end of year $167,298
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $7,182
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $592
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
end of year $0
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
end of year $175,072
Mission and programs · 2022
Mission
The Organization for Ethical Source (OES) was founded to help open source communities ensure that their work is being used for social good and in service of human rights. We develop tools and standards to promote fair, ethical, and equitable outcomes for everyone who contributes to, benefits from, or is impacted by open source technologies.
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For the 2022-23 funding period, OES committed to four primary goals: first, investing in our growth and sustainability; second, supporting the development of new ethical licenses through our ethical license incubator; third, launching the Contributor Covenant 3.0 working group; and finally, creating online learning tools and resources through the Ethical Ed Tech project. Over the past year, we focused on the first two of these goals. As part of our investment in growth and sustainability, in November of 2022 we held our first open board elections. Three additional board members were elected, bringing extensive open source, human rights, and civic tech experience to the OES leadership team. Board members are expected to take active roles in leading or sponsoring OES projects, according to their interest and expertise, so growing our board will also increase our capacity to work in parallel on multiple initiatives. We also launched a redesigned website, which was built by a volunteer working group over the course of the past year. Throughout the development of the new OES site, we provided mentoring and learning opportunities to an early-career web developer who had volunteered for the project. We applied for our501(c)(3) status in 2022, and our application was approved by the IRS in January 2023, with an effective date of November 2021. This means that we will no longer need a fiscal sponsor and will be able to more easily accept direct donations and funding. Through the Ethical License Incubator, OES has provided legal resources and other support for the development of the At The Root Anti-Racist License. Created by Dawn Wages, the ATR license builds on the legal and human rights framework of the Hippocratic License, but includes specific context, language, and conditions designed to combat systemic racism in how tech is created and used. Dawn and her team announced the release of At The Root Version 0.6 on Juneteenth 2022, the version number referencing the 3/5ths Compromise.
Expenses $187,163
As filed on the 2022 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Coraline Ada Ehmke
President
- Total calculated
- $156,250
- From this org
- $156,250
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $156,250
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $156,250
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Sean Bailey
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Will Barton
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Mike Nolan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Astrid Countee
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Alex Culliere
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Sameeul Haque
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
None.
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2022
- Filed
- 12 October 2023
- IRS schema version
- 2022v5.0
- Source object
- 202302859349302030
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