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Open Ownership (Global Impact-sponsored)

A Global Impact-sponsored nonprofit initiative supporting beneficial-ownership transparency and reusable tools for analyzing ownership structures.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 79–89/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Ownership-data standards guidance and visualization software that civil-society investigators and analysts can reuse.

Open-source evidence · license checked

  • BODS-Dagre visualization library — Apache-2.0 license file. Organization’s role: maintainer.
    Named repository license inspected on the review date; dependencies, data, content, trademarks and hosted services have separate terms. License-file snapshot: d9a10c0d8e868ebf8da0b3dc95bb0be634c34bfe.

License checked 2026-10-27. This is not a security audit, proof of current support or effectiveness, or a promise of free hosting. A sponsor or steward is not necessarily the sole developer. Unchecked profiles are not evidence of closed code. No extra score points are added.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Gatekeepers — editorial, partial alignment.

Transparent ownership information and reusable analytical tools can lower information barriers facing watchdog groups. Disclosure does not by itself confer decision rights, safety or effective remedy.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Ownership-transparency reform support and reusable data tools

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

4 / 4

Ownership-disclosure rules and shared data infrastructure target opacity in corporate control, a recurring accountability constraint.

Institutional reach

4 / 4

Beneficial-ownership transparency has international institutional application across procurement, finance and public-interest investigation.

Durability

2 / 4

Published standards and skills can persist, but enforcement, data updates and ongoing technical support are uncertain; further BODS development is paused.

Scalability

3 / 4

Reusable visualization code supports replication, while accurate ownership interpretation and locally effective reform require specialist effort.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

Unknown: current marginal funding, restricted allocations, delivery capacity and the counterfactual have not been audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Unknown: open licenses, participation or contributor governance do not establish audited consequential rights for affected communities.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; primary mechanism and named repository license inspected

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Do supported disclosures and analytical tools improve independently verified investigations and enforcement outcomes beyond alternative approaches, without disproportionate privacy or safety harms?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design and license; low for systemic attribution. Open Ownership initiative fiscally sponsored by US nonprofit Global Impact; not a rating of Global Impact’s whole portfolio or a claim of independent legal-charity status for the project.

What remains uncertain

The organization announced a pause in further BODS development in November 2025. The old BODSKit repository is archived and is not the checked current tool. Disclosure gaps, inaccurate links, privacy concerns and weak enforcement can undermine benefits. Fiscal sponsorship is not independent incorporation.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage