UK data-policy nonprofit with the most transparent public membership pricing and the most transferable international-expansion model found in this entire research set.
Important caveat, explicitly verified during this research: search results for “ODI” are frequently and wrongly conflated with the Overseas Development Institute — an unrelated, much larger UK think tank (£29.9 million income) focused on international development, not data policy. All figures below were cross-checked against theodi.org, Companies House, and Wikipedia specifically to exclude this conflation.
Org form & scale
UK company (Companies House no. 08030289); ~29–30 staff. CEO Louise Burke; Executive Chair Nigel Shadbolt; President Sir Tim Berners-Lee — a globally recognizable name lending significant credibility despite the org’s modest size. Filed UK accounts under the “small company” exemption since FY2022, down from full-accounts filing status in FY2020–21 — read as a signal of contraction, though the exemption itself doesn’t disclose exact recent revenue figures.
Founding funding
£10 million from the UK Technology Strategy Board (predecessor to Innovate UK), $4.85 million from Omidyar Network, and a further £8 million from Innovate UK — concentrated in the 2017–2021 window; no more recent comparable funding figures found.
Membership model — most transparent pricing found in this research
Publicly published fee tiers: £100/yr (individual) up to £4,995/yr (large corporate), with an explicit ~50% discount for nonprofits — contrast with SINE, Gaia-X, and IDSA, none of which publish a clear public fee schedule.
The ODI Node network — the most transferable model found for SINE
A franchise-style network of “ODI Nodes” across 20+ countries, each locally run but operating under the shared ODI brand/methodology — the closest real-world precedent for how SINE could scale internationally without building a large central headcount itself.
Strategic relevance to SINE
Two directly actionable templates: (1) a published, tiered membership fee schedule with a nonprofit discount, and (2) a franchise/node model for international reach. Both are concrete, low-risk experiments SINE could pilot, unlike the much larger state-subsidy-scale plays of Gaia-X/Catena-X.
Sources
sources/research/2026-08-05-competitor-tech-for-good-ngos.md (Open Data
Institute section; live web research, 2026-08-05).