Open Startup International Corp
Donations deductibleRevenue
$1.8m
year to 31 December 2025
Expenses
$1.6m
year to 31 December 2025
Total assets
$957k
$620k liabilities
Net assets
$337k
assets less liabilities
Directors and trustees
5
3.4y av
Staff
0
employees, year to 31 December 2025
Left since last filing
0
no seats appear to have opened
Officers and senior staff
7
named in Part VII
Open Startup International Corp's network
5 peoplei5 people on this map.The large node is the subject of this page. Solid lines are what the register itself records (5). Form 990 filings give names without a person identifier; SEC insider filings carry a CIK.The board
5 listediTime on the board is observed from the annual filings: the IRS files no appointment date, so the bar counts years from the first filing the person appears on - a lower bound, not a filed start date. Names are exactly as filed. The IRS publishes no person identifier, so this edition does not yet link a person across organisations.Tenure and departures are observed across annual filings. Observed tenure is a lower bound - a member may have joined before the first year on record. The organisation reported 7 voting members of its governing body on its latest Form 990 Part VI, which matches the board listed here.| Name | Role as filed | Since | On the board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheyenne V Ellis | Trustee | 2023 | 3 yrs |
| Isadora Bigourdan | Trustee | 2023 | 3 yrs |
| Sonia Souayah | CFO | 2023 | 3 yrs |
| Wahid Laabidi | Trustee | 2023 | 3 yrs |
| Ziad Oueslati | Trustee | 2023 | 3 yrs |
Under 5 years5 to 6 years6 years or more
Officers and senior leadership
7 listediNamed in Part VII as officers, key employees or highest-compensated staff - not board members, shown for completeness.| Name | Title as filed | On the filings |
|---|---|---|
| Audry Sakho | Prog Coordinato | 2023 |
| Chemseddine Temtem | Direct Intl Op | 2023 |
| Farah Boughalmi | Program Officer | 2023 |
| Hemish Dave | Treasurer | 2023 |
| Houda Ghozzi | President & CEO | 2023 |
| Kamil Jedidi | President | 2023 |
| RYM Baouendi | Treasurer | 2023 |
Pay and hours
year to 31 December 2025iFrom Part VII of the Form 990: compensation reported for each officer, director, trustee, key employee and highest-paid staff member, and the average hours a week they report. Most board members are unpaid; a blank means nothing was reported. Pay from related organisations is shown separately.| Name | Title as filed | Hours a week | Pay from the organisation | Related organisations | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonia Souayah | CFO | 3 | $30k | ||
| Ziad Oueslati | Trustee | 1 | $0 | ||
| Cheyenne V Ellis | Trustee | 1 | $0 | ||
| Isadora Bigourdan | Trustee | 1 | $0 | ||
| Kamil Jedidi | President | 5 | $0 | ||
| Hemish Dave | Treasurer | 3 | $0 | ||
| Rym Baouendi | Secretary | 3 | $0 | ||
| Houda Ghozzi | Executive Dir. | 10 | $0 |
About
- Legal name
- Open Startup International Corp
- EIN
- 852642709
- Address
- 7014 13th Avenue 202, Brooklyn, NY, 11228-1604
- State
- New York
- Mission
- Open startup international corporation is a non-profit organization that fosters innovation and capacity building through entrepreneurship, education, and cross-cultural exchange, creating communities and connecting ecosystems across the middle east and africa. Open startup works toward leveraging networks and empowering entrepreneurs by providing them with world-class opportunities, prgrams... (as filed on the Form 990)
- Activity (NTEE)
- Q32 International, foreign affairs and national security
- IRS classification
- 501(c)03 (tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) where shown)
- Classified purpose
- International, Foreign Affairs & National Security
- Size band
- 5 (IRS master file code)
- Principal officer
- Sonia Souayah (as named on the Form 990)
- IRS ruling date
- 1 February 2022
- Status
- Code 01 (unconditional exemption)
- Form 990 filings on record
- 1, latest 2023
- IRS Publication 78
- PC (contributions deductible)
Most connected
Longest observed on the filings
≥3years on the filingsCheyenne V Ellis
≥3years on the filingsIsadora Bigourdan
≥3years on the filingsSonia Souayah
≥3years on the filingsWahid Laabidi
Latest return
year to 31 December 2025iFigures from the newest Form 990 or 990-EZ in the IRS e-file releases of 2025 and 2026, for the year ending 31 December 2025. US dollars, as filed.- Total assets
- $957k
- Total liabilities
- $620k
- Net assets or fund balances
- $337k
- Contributions and grants received
- $1.6m
- Program service revenue
- $149k
- Grants and similar paid out
- $428k
- Employees
- 0
Grants paid
1 listediFrom Schedule I of the Form 990: grants and assistance to organisations in the United States, largest first (up to 25). Schedule I is filed only by organisations that gave more than $5,000 to any one recipient.| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Reme-D Corp | $52k |
State registration
1 entityiBusiness-entity registers published by US states. These records are matched to this organisation by name and state, not by EIN, and are labelled as likely matches. Street addresses are not shown.Open Startup International Corp. likely matchiMatched by exact name and state (and ZIP where shown). State registers do not publish EINs, so this is not a confirmed match. Source: New York Department of State, active corporations (data.ny.gov n9v6-gdp6). Licence: New York open data terms of use. Data last fetched 18 October 2026.
- State
- New York
- Entity type
- Domestic Not-For-Profit Corporation
- Status
- Active
- Formed
- 17 August 2020
- Registered agent
- United States Corporation Agents, Inc. (city and state not held)