Openmrs Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
OPENMRS INC'S PURPOSE IS TO PROVIDE THE OPENMRS COMMUNITY IN ITS MISSION TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY IN RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS, INCLUDING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; AND WORK WITH THE COORDINATING A GLOBAL COMMUNITY TO CREATE AND SUPPORT SOFTWARE TO MANAGE MEDICAL RECORDS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND TO RESOURCECONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS. THE INC. AIDS IN CREATING AND DISTRIBUTING OPENMRS BY SECURING CASH, HARDWARE, AND OTHER DONATIONS, THEN USING DONATIONS TO AID OPENMRS DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION. THE ORGANIZATION WAS ORIGINALLY FOUNDED AS OPENMRS, LLC TO CREATE A LEGAL ENTITY CAPABLE OF REPRESENTING THE OPENMRS PROJECT. THE GROWING POPULARITY OF OPENMRS ALSO MADE IT NECCESSARY TO ESTABLISH A THIN ORGANIZATIONAL LAYER THAT IS CAPABLE OF HANDLING ALL LEGAL AND FINANCIAL INTERESTS OF THE OPENMRS COMMUNITY PROCESS.
- Income
- $1.4 million
- Spending
- $1.3 million
- Spent on programs
- 98%
- Reserves
- 8.6 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 93%
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 200
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Good: 83 out of 100. Higher than 49% of charities in its peer group (medical research, $1m to $10m).
Reserves
28 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 8.6 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 11% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 2% of income.
Income trend
5 of 15Income fell 13% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1598% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 1 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 100 out of 100. Higher than 64% of charities in its peer group (medical research, $1m to $10m).
Independent board
25 of 256 of 6 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Independent check of accounts
15 of 15Its accounts were audited by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $1.3 million spent. OpenMRS continues to be resolute in its mission. Embracing teamwork, the OpenMRS community has been able to make great strides in improving health care delivery in resource-constrained environments by creating a robust, scalable, user-driven, open source medical record system platform. The achievements during the year include:Third-Party Security Validation: Engaged independent security experts to conduct comprehensive penetration testing of the O3 Reference Application. The assessment included a thorough review against the OWASP Top 10 most critical web application security risks. Successfully achieved Compliance Certificate, demonstrating the Platform meets rigorous security standards and industry best practices.Security Improvements: Implemented comprehensive security enhancements including more rigorous application of permission checks and a permission model for global properties. Conducted review of several REST endpoints to ensure appropriate privileges and authentication. Migrated to a whitelisting mechanism for unauthenticated URLs. Implemented an auditing framework and moved to XStream whitelisting.Major Platform and Application Releases: Released major upgrade to Platform 2.7, including security fixes and a two-fold increase in Developer performance speed due to boot-up time improvements. Also released Platform 2.8-alpha (SNAPSHOT) for community testing. Platform 2.8 release includes foundational Java upgrades (better security and DevX), Spring upgrades, and much more. O3 Releases: Released and pre-released major upgrades to O3 (3.2.1, 3.3.0, and 3.4) that delivered performance enhancements, new feature additions, and essential bug fixes to O3. Substantial O3 RefApp QA/testing activities were conducted alongside comprehensive issue identification.Quality Assurance: Reviewed all O3 UI tests for gaps, and added additional O3 automated test coverage. Design QA: Review of community-contributed features for design consistency and usability. For instance, supported design inputs for IPD Squad.Content Packages and Developer Tools: Improved the OpenMRS SDK to automatically handle content package components that previously required manual file arranging. Improved documentation for developers aiming to develop and re-use content.Feature Squad Support: Provided guidance to a steady number of O3 Feature Squads to facilitate alignment and prioritization among OpenMRS Implementing Organizations working on O3, and to further a broader suite of O3 features.New Squad Initiatives: Documentation Revival Squad: Launched effort to harmonize Implementer & Developer guidance documents. Successfully unified and updated a one-stop O3 Developer Guide in the OpenMRS Wiki, and initiated improvements to Reporting Documentation.Localization Squad: Launched focused efforts to improve translation workflows, training resources, and governance that will benefit non-English PEPFAR-supported sites (including DRC). Also provided translated courses including the Intro to O3 for Devs and Form Builder courses, into Spanish and French, particularly to aid capacity building in O3 and Form Building in both Cote dIvoire and DRC.Google Summer of Code: Supported projects initiated through Google Summer of Code by providing dedicated mentorship, significant requirements planning, and community priority alignmentprojects aimed at benefiting TAP and PEPFAR organizations. Key projects included: Interactive Builder for Form Translations within the Form Builder (particularly beneficial for DRC), Improved Audit Logging, OpenMRS Standalone Replacement, Performance Testing Enhancement, Fast Data Entry Feature Fix, and Immunization Schedule App for O3.Standards and Interoperability: Gave an award-winning presentation on how OpenMRS has successfully adopted FHIR standards for data exchange (without needing to replace the backend), at the first ever ODHS (Open Digital Health Summit).Capacity Building and Training: Facilitated 1-week training in Kinshasa on OpenMRS in general and Form Building specifically for PATH DRC, with substantial participant-reported improvements in OpenMRS understanding.Documentation and Collaboration Tools: Updated shared community Product Roadmap, O3 Backlog, and Squad Dashboard to reflect collaborative development efforts of TAP partners, country PEPFAR implementing partners, and other community organizations.Community Showcase: In April 2025, hosted the community's Quarterly Virtual meeting, which included demos and showcases from multiple OpenMRS implementers and contributors, on topics from integration to AI to hospital use cases and form automation.2024 OpenMRS Conference: Successfully completed the Kenya OpenMRS Conference on September 10, 2024, with over 100+ participants from multiple countries including Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Namibia, and Malawi. Key conference themes included advancing open innovation and open standards through community collaboration, scaling OpenMRS implementations across Primary Care Networks, cybersecurity and data protection frameworks, and the evolution of country-specific EMR distributions like KenyaEMR and UgandaEMR+. The conference emphasized interoperability, cloud solutions for low-resource settings, patient-centric care for Universal Health Coverage, and the critical role of communities in fostering sustainable digital health innovations. Increased socialization of the new OpenMRS Partner Badges among implementers and funding representatives, to recognize and promote organizations' upstream contributions on shared assets - an essential component to evolving and sustaining OpenMRS as a global good.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Worth knowing.
Status was revoked on November 15, 2014 for not filing returns for three years, and reinstated on November 15, 2014.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending June 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since September 2016.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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