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Consumer Technology Association

Cta's mission is to grow the consumer technology industry.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Community Improvement$7.5MPublic Benefit$878kEnvironment$624kScience & Tech$462kPublic Safety & Disaster$448kFood & Nutrition$303kPhilanthropy$220kCrime & Legal$210kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $1,580,731 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,821,546 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $240,815 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $446k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$18,743
Median grant
7
States reached
$433M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CTA Foundation$1,017,488
Three Square$60,000
Phx Ctr for Adv Legal & Econ Pub Pol Stud$50,000
Green Chips$45,000
Center Forward$35,000
Americans for Tax Reform$35,000
Center for Democracy & Technology$25,000
US Capitol Hist Soc$25,000
Cong Black Caucus Pol Ed & Ldrshp Inst$25,000
Global Women's Innov NTWK$25,000
The Congressional Club Museum & Fdn$25,000
Partners for Automated Vehicle Education Inc$20,000
Touro Univ Nevada$20,000
R Street Institute$18,743
NCSL Foundation for State Legislators$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $37k → 17%Northern Virginia Family Service: $10k → 6%TRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAM OF SOUTHERN NV: $50k → 13%American Red Cross: $13k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
NV
IA
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $188k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$97k · 51% · 37 people

Stated purpose: Travel Scholarship

East Asia and the Pacific$65k · 35% · 25 people

Stated purpose: Travel Scholarship

South America$26k · 14% · 10 people

Stated purpose: Travel Scholarship

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.7M · 28 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
32

Total granted

$9.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+28%

Still filing today

96%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +46%
  • TR
    THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $210k · revenue +988%
  • GC
    Green Chips DBA Impact NV
    3× · 2022–2024 · $166k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • PR
    PUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -6%
  • The Houston Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +107%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
4
Chamber of Progress

Chamber of progress is a center-left tech industry coalition devoted to a progressive society, economy, workforce, and consumer climate. we back public policies that will build a fairer, more inclusive country in which all people benefit…

Community Improvement
5
Techcongress Foundation

Techcongress gives talented technologists the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in federal policymaking and shape the future of tech policy through fellowships with members of congress and congressional committees.

Community Improvement
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Technology Policy Institute
International
9
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
10
Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Scientific research in information processing; fostering dev. of nat'l inf. infra.

Science & Tech
11
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
12
Center for Arms Control and

A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures and the most unlike its peers is Product Management Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%29%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr15%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%78%10–20yr14%10%20–35yr15%6%35–55yr15%6%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,392

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
49/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $7,425,341 · Community ImprovementCONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION+4 more — $70,000 · Community ImprovementELECTRONICS RECYCLING REPRESENTATIVE ORGANZATION — $150,000 · OtherELECTRONICS RECYCLING…Americans for Tax Reform — $85,000 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank — $80,000 · OtherElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc — $80,000 · OtherLas Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation — $245,000 · OtherLas Vegas Metropolita…TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA — $99,990 · OtherR STREET INSTITUTE — $98,743 · OtherUNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY INC — $75,000 · OtherTHREE SQUARE — $120,000 · OtherTHREE SQUAREGLOBAL WOMENS INNOVATION NETWORK — $85,000 · Other+38 more — $1,009,500 · Other+38 moreTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC — $210,000 · EnvironmentGreen Chips DBA Impact NV — $165,680 · EnvironmentGREEN OUR PLANET — $73,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL CENTER FOR ELECTRONICS RECYCLING INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $330,000 · Human ServicesTIP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $36,750 · Human ServicesFREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesPUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH TRUST — $250,000 · Science & TechEngine Foundation — $40,000 · Science & TechWOMENS HIGH TECH COALITION — $20,000 · Science & TechNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES — $90,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC KNOWLEDGE — $50,000 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $45,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $37,000 · Public BenefitINTERNET EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Public BenefitREPUBLICAN MAIN STREET PARTNERSHIP — $20,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY — $135,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $50,000 · Civil RightsPHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAY — $30,000 · Civil Rights
Community Improvement$7,495,341Other$2,128,233Environment$473,680Human Services$446,750Science & Tech$310,000Public Benefit$287,000Civil Rights$265,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $7,425,341 over 8y, 82% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $330,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLas Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation — $245,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC — $210,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetGreen Chips DBA Impact NV — $165,680 over 3y, 16% of budgetELECTRONICS RECYCLING REPRESENTATIVE ORGANZATION — $150,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetCENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY — $135,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHREE SQUARE — $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA — $99,990 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE — $98,743 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES — $90,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBAL WOMENS INNOVATION NETWORK — $85,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetAmericans for Tax Reform — $85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc — $80,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGREEN OUR PLANET — $73,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY — $62,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $62,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPUBLIC KNOWLEDGE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTIP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEngine Foundation — $40,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCENTER FOR EXHIBITION INDUSTRY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $37,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $36,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRipon Society Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR AUTOMATED VEHICLE EDUCATION INC — $32,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHIRD WAY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNET EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR ELECTRONICS RECYCLING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRESOURCE IMPACT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBUSINESS FORWARD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL CLUB MUSEUM AND FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ctia - the Wireless A…Ncta - the Internet &…United States Telecom…The Business Roundtab…Charles Koch InstitutePharmaceutical Resear…The Seminar Network I…Motion Picture Associ…Democracy Fund IncThe William & Flora H…AARPWalton Family Foundat…
Ctia - the Wireless AssociationDC30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ctia - the Wireless Association · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · United States Telecom Association · The Business Roundtable Inc · Charles Koch Institute · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · The Seminar Network Inc · Motion Picture Association Inc · Democracy Fund Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · AARP · Walton Family Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Consumer Technology Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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