OpenUp Due Diligence
Run due diligence on OpenUp: check compliance and get alerts when suppliers change.
South Africa · openup.org.za · 6 vendors
OpenUp is a non-profit civic technology organization based in South Africa. It develops tools, liberates data, and offers data training to empower citizens and enhance collaboration between communities and governments. The organization's mission is to promote informed decision-making and drive social change through the strategic application of data and technology.
Resilience scores
- Digital Sovereignty: 0
- Digital Resilience: 7
- Financial Resilience: 5
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Services catalogue
2 services in catalogue across 2 categories; runs on 6 sub-vendors.
- Civic technology development
- Data tools
Insights
Last updated 2026-08-11 · revision 4
6 direct vendors, 123 subvendors
Direct vendors by controlling owner country (sample)
- United States: 5
- Australia: 1
Subvendors by controlling owner country (sample)
- Netherlands: 2
- Australia: 3
- Brazil: 1
Compliance
8 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.
PAIA — No public evidence
Evidence: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5d6298cd18659ff156042e30/61fcbf6092b74d161cf11249_2022_public_privacy_policy.pdf, https://openup.org.za
GDPR (source) — No public evidence
Evidence: https://openup.org.za/cookie-policy, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5d6298cd18659ff156042e30/61fcbf6092b74d161cf11249_2022_public_privacy_policy.pdf
South Africa Electronic Communications and Transactions Act — Evidence found
Evidence: https://openup.org.za/cookie-policy, https://openup.org.za
Financials
Three-year financials
- 2024:
- 2023:
- 2022: revenue ZAR 11.6M
Financial Resilience Score: 5/10
OpenUp is a small South African non-profit organisation with a limited financial disclosure profile. The only hard revenue number publicly disclosed is approximately ZAR 11.6M for FY2021-22, and no EBIT, equity, or reserves figures are made public. Since then, the organisation has experienced declining absolute income due to the sunset of major core grants (notably Luminate and OSF-SA), though the decline was less severe than planned (under 20% versus a projected 30%). Despite the contraction, OpenUp has demonstrated notable resilience by successfully pivoting its income mix from 74% grant-dependent (FY2022-23) to 86% client-funded (FY2024-25) — an unusually strong diversification outcome for a civic-tech NPO. The organisation maintains a lean cost base, remote-friendly operations, and a strategic focus on building cash reserves. However, its small absolute scale (~USD 700-800k in the last disclosed year), human-capital-heavy cost structure (94% of opex on people), client concentration in South African public sector, and exposure to a shrinking civic-tech philanthropy environment temper its overall resilience score.
Key strengths: Successful income diversification from 74% grants to 86% client-funded over three years, Managed loss of major grants with smaller-than-expected income drop (<20% vs planned 30%), Written multi-year funding strategy (2022-2024, 2025-2030) with decentralised business development, Low fixed-cost base with remote-friendly operations and minimal travel spend, Strong repeat client relationships with National Treasury, CoGTA, and municipalities, Open-source product portfolio reducing vendor lock-in risk, Stated strategic focus on building cash reserves for cash flow security
Risk factors: Small absolute scale (~ZAR 11.6M / USD 700-800k) limits shock absorption, Declining absolute revenue since FY2022-23 as core grants sunset, Volatile funder ecosystem with contracting civic-tech philanthropy in Africa, Human-capital-heavy cost base (94% of opex on people) limits variable-cost flexibility, Client concentration in South African public sector brings tender/procurement cyclicality and political risk, No published audited AFS limits third-party verification, Currency exposure with USD-denominated grants and ZAR-denominated costs, Global aid environment narrowing for African civic-tech organisations
Revenue by geography
- South Africa: 100%
Revenue by product/service
- Other products and services (Vulekamali, Municipal Money, DCoG, PMG, Codebridge, Africa Data Hub, Knowledge Works, etc.): 93%
- Wazimap: 7%
Workforce by country
- South Africa: 14
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