· Public charity
Arrl Foundation Inc
The organization's purpose is to advance the art, science, and societal benefits of the amateur radio service by awarding financial grants and scholarships to individuals and organizations in support of their charitable, educational, and scientific efforts.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $438k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARISS-USA | $36,000 |
| GLOUCESTER COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB - W2MMD | $25,000 |
| ANCHORAGE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB INC | $25,000 |
| BELLEVIEW R-3 AMATEUR RADIO CLUB | $25,000 |
| ALL THINGS AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| GETA - LAGUNA CREEK HIGH SCHOOL GREEN ENERGY TECH ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| BARNSTABLE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB (BARC) | $25,000 |
| CAPE ANN AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| WEST CHESTER AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION | $24,910 |
| ORANGE COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB | $22,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| TRIDENT AMATEUR RADIO CLUB INC | $20,718 |
| YAVAPAI AMATEUR RADIO CLUB | $20,440 |
| PARC - PIEDMONT AMATEUR RADIO CLUB | $17,833 |
| GARS - GAINESVILLE AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY | $17,498 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Arrl Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arrl Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arrl Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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