Open Organisation of Lockpickers

Analysis

Open Organisation of Lockpickers is a registered charity in United States, based in Sterling, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2025. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2020, Open Organisation of Lockpickers reported income of $111k and spending of $129k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2020, income fell from $201k to $111k (-45%), an average of -45% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Open Organisation of Lockpickers sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 39th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 3s Learning ($111k), Memorial Band Parent Association ($111k) and South Salem High Music Boosters ($111k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2020, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.4% and program service revenue 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $47k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $47k.