2026-01-21T11:19:55-05:00 2025-12-31 990 2025-01-01 823945232 OPEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC OPEN 8582293399 3525 DEL MAR HEIGHTS ROAD 1873 SAN DIEGO CA 92130 Michelle Thompson CEO 8582293399 2026-01-28 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Michelle Thompson 5379 Carmel Knolls Drive San Diego CA 92130 11291 false X https: openresearch.institute X 2019 CA Open Research Institute ORI is a non-profit research and development organization which provides all of its work to the general public under the principles of Open Source and Open Access to Research. 5 5 0 2000 0 0 976 2353 6430 0 9776 8938 0 0 17182 11291 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18780 11507 18780 11507 -1598 -216 524277 524061 0 0 524277 524061 Open Research Institute ORI is a non-profit research and development organization which provides all of its work to the general public under the principles of Open Source and Open Access to Research. false false 4296 0 0 Our largest program expense for 2025 was supporting open source digital radio research and development in Remote Labs. These expenses were to repair update and maintain Remote Labs workbenches and Remote Labs information technology infrastructure for Opulent Voice Haifuraiya HF Meander Antenna Polynomial Spline Modeling Synthetic Aperture Radar Modeling Phased Array Drone Near Field Modeling Neptune Earth Venus Earth Modeling and Mode Dynamic Transponder Modeling work. 3500 0 0 Our second largest program expense for 2025 was demonstrating prototypes of all active projects at the DEFCON conference in Las Vegas NV. Our open source digital radio exhibit in RF Village was visited by thousands of participants. Opulent Voice open source Synthetic Aperture Radar RFBitBanger and Ribbit were demonstrated live. Exhibits about successful sounding rocket launches with the University of Puerto Rico collaboration with Deep Space Exploration Society and IEEE were also presented and interpreted by four volunteers who worked the event full time from open to close Thursday through Sunday. 866 0 0 Our third largest program expense for 2025 was AmbaSat launch costs. This expense puts an open source design in low earth orbit. This work was funded by a grant and has educated eleven individuals in the areas of printed circuit board design circuit analysis VHF UHF and microwave propagation and embedded processing and programming. 0 0 0 8662 true false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 true 0 false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false 0 0 false false false 5 5 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true false true false false false CA X X Michelle Thompson 8583507579 5379 Carmel Knolls Drive SAN DIEGO CA 92130 X Keith Wheeler Secretary 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Anshul Makkar Director 10.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Michelle Thompson CEO 30.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Steve Conklin CFO 10.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Matthew Wishek Director 10.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 false false false 0 0 0 0 0 2353 0 2353 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8938 8938 0 8938 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11291 8938 0 8938 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1284 0 1284 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 135 135 0 0 1394 1394 0 0 317 317 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 580 580 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3123 1562 1561 0 DEFCON 2200 2200 0 0 Remote Labs 1608 1608 0 0 AmbaSat 866 866 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11507 8662 2845 0 0 0 0 0 3841 3550 440717 440792 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 79719 0 79719 79719 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 524277 524061 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 524277 524061 0 0 524277 524061 524277 524061 -216 0 0 0 0 0 X false false false X 250205 0 23459 8974 2353 284991 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 250205 0 23459 8974 2353 284991 284991 0 0 9084 9776 8938 27798 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 312789 0.9111 0 X 79719 0 79719 79719 Part VI, Line 11a A draft PDF of the Form 990 was distributed to all Directors all Officers and an independent volunteer committee drawn from membership. Several weeks were allocated for a review of the Form 990 before submission. Part VI, Line 12c A review of the conflict of interest policy was made at all meetings in 2025. Each board member was asked to disclose any conflicts of interest. No conflicts of interest were reported in 2025. Part VI, Line 19 All governing documents including the Participants and Developers policies Code of Conduct conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available on the organizations website and upon request.