How much does Ctia - the Wireless Association give?

Ctia - the Wireless Association reported 44 itemized grants totaling $2,642,610, out of $3,178,872 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ctia - the Wireless Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (65%), Public Benefit (15%), Community Improvement (5%).

Who are Ctia - the Wireless Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mywirelessorg ($12M), National Conference of State Legislatures ($1.2M), Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures ($845k).

Does Ctia - the Wireless Association fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Ctia - the Wireless Association based?

Ctia - the Wireless Association is based in DC.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Ctia - the Wireless Association

Ctia-the wireless association ("ctia") is a nonprofit membership organization that represents the u.s. Wireless communications industry, including wireless providers, their suppliers, and other providers and manufacturers of wireless services and products. Ctia advocates on their behalf before the executive branch, the federal…

$3.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 44
Itemized grants FY2024: 51
Organizations funded FY2023: 22%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $2.6M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,382,400
Organizations funded a year: 33 to 51; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 9
Total assets, FY2024: $311M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Ctia - the Wireless Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $489k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	44	$2.6M	11%
FY2023	51	$3.4M	22%
FY2022	34	$2.5M	18%
FY2021	41	$2.3M	12%
FY2020	47	$2.6M	30%
FY2019	33	$2.5M	9%
FY2018	44	$2.2M	45%
FY2017	35	$2.1M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$13MPublic Benefit$3.1MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHealth$420kArts & Culture$407kEducation$346kPhilanthropy$324kScience & Tech$322kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mywirelessorg	$11,743,421	8	98%
National Conference of State Legislatures	$1,190,000	4	n/a
Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures	$845,000	8	5%
National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators	$327,500	8	4%
Multicultural Media Telecom & Internet Council	$320,000	8	4%
African American Mayors Assocation	$310,000	8	5%
National Black Caucus of State Legislators	$247,500	8	2%
National Domestic Violence Hotline	$203,000	2	1%
National Urban League Inc	$200,000	4	0%
Foundation for California's Technology and Innovation Economy	$195,000	6	40%

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All grantees of Ctia - the Wireless Association by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mywirelessorg	$11,743,421	8	98%
National Conference of State Legislatures	$1,190,000	4	n/a
Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures	$845,000	8	5%
National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators	$327,500	8	4%
Multicultural Media Telecom & Internet Council	$320,000	8	4%
African American Mayors Assocation	$310,000	8	5%
National Black Caucus of State Legislators	$247,500	8	2%
National Domestic Violence Hotline	$203,000	2	1%
National Urban League Inc	$200,000	4	0%
Foundation for California's Technology and Innovation Economy	$195,000	6	40%
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc	$185,000	6	0%
Federal Communications Bar Association Foundation	$177,400	8	6%
United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce	$150,000	5	1%
US Black Chambers Inc	$150,000	5	1%
Ford's Theatre Society	$141,666	5	0%
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma	$140,000	6	0%
The Economic Club of Washington DC	$137,500	7	1%
American Legislative Exchange Council	$136,000	8	0%
Ripon Society Inc	$135,000	4	1%
Asurion Compassion Fund	$125,000	2	9%
Hearing Loss Association of America	$121,251	8	1%
Miriam's Kitchen	$109,400	7	0%
The Congressional Institute Inc	$109,250	6	1%
Everybody Wins DC Inc	$103,411	5	4%
Chamber of Commerce of the USA	$100,850	8	0%
Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies Inc	$100,000	1	11%
Faith and Politics Institute	$100,000	4	1%
Gonzaga College High School	$100,000	1	n/a
National Organization of Black Elected Legislative	$96,000	5	7%
Global Womens Innovation Network	$95,000	6	2%
Wireless History Foundation	$92,000	5	6%
The Media Institute	$90,950	7	4%
State Legislative Leaders Foundation Inc	$85,000	3	1%
Ng9-1-1 Institute	$80,000	8	17%
Asian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional	$75,000	4	1%
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc	$75,000	4	0%
Business Forward Inc	$75,000	2	2%
Calinnovates-Org	$75,000	1	7%
National Emergency Number Association	$66,167	8	0%
Download Fairness Coalition	$60,000	1	19%
Institute for State Policy Leaders	$60,000	3	3%
Florence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington	$60,000	6	1%
Naleo Educational Fund	$60,000	3	0%
Womens High Tech Coalition	$60,000	6	10%
State Government Affairs Council	$52,000	8	1%
Senate Working Group Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Tdiforaccess Inc	$49,000	5	3%
Ej Krause & Associates	$42,000	4	n/a
National Organization of Black County Officials Inc	$40,000	4	3%
National Rural Education Association	$40,000	2	21%
Multiple Myeloma Charity Classic	$40,000	4	26%
G3ict - Global Initiative for Inclusive	$37,500	3	1%
The New England Council Inc	$35,000	3	0%
Center Forward	$35,000	1	0%
Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn	$30,000	3	0%
Trust for the National Mall	$29,300	3	0%
Family Online Safety Institute	$28,000	2	9%
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth	$27,500	3	0%
National Democratic Club	$25,500	4	0%
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union	$25,000	1	0%
Intercambio Group	$25,000	1	n/a
National Congress of American Indians Fund	$25,000	1	0%
Imagine an Answer to Kids Brain Cancer	$20,000	2	n/a
The Internet Association	$20,000	2	0%
Cadet Air Corps Museum	$20,000	2	3%
Emerging Issues Policy Forum	$20,000	1	n/a
Rightnow Inc	$20,000	2	n/a
Council of State Governments	$18,500	1	0%
Politico Llc	$18,000	1	n/a
Federal Communications Bar Association	$18,000	1	2%
Black Girls Code Inc	$17,220	1	0%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc	$15,000	1	0%
National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors	$15,000	2	1%
Congressional Club Museum and Foundation	$15,000	1	2%
Peacetech Lab Inc	$15,000	1	0%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc	$13,355	1	0%
National Foundation for Women Legislators Inc	$13,000	2	1%
Women in Government Foundation Inc	$11,000	1	1%
Taste of the South	$10,296	2	0%
The Fund for American Studies	$10,000	1	0%
No Greater Sacrifice Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Public Knowledge	$10,000	1	0%
United States Itu Association	$10,000	1	8%
Tracys Kids Inc	$10,000	1	2%
US Spain Council Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Fpf Education and Innovation Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
The District of Columbia Bar Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
The Bryce Harlow Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
United States Capitol Historical Society	$10,000	1	1%
J Street Cup	$10,000	1	2%
University of Colorado Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Wing Nuts EAA Chapter 1405 Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Global Down Syndrome Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Congressional Sports for Charity	$10,000	1	1%
Tax Foundation	$8,000	1	0%
Black and Brown Founders Inc	$7,225	1	1%
Color of Changeorg Education Fund	$6,100	1	n/a
Loudoun First Responders Foundation	$5,166	1	1%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Ctia - the Wireless Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 88.

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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.

Ncta - the Internet & Television AssociationDC46.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Edison Electric Institute Inc · AARP · Consumer Technology Association · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc · Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc · American Petroleum Institute · United States Telecom Association · American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers · The Business Roundtable Inc · Entertainment Software Association

How this is measured

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

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About Ctia - the Wireless Association

How much does Ctia - the Wireless Association give?: Ctia - the Wireless Association reported 44 itemized grants totaling $2,642,610, out of $3,178,872 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ctia - the Wireless Association fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (65%), Public Benefit (15%), Community Improvement (5%).
Who are Ctia - the Wireless Association's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mywirelessorg ($12M), National Conference of State Legislatures ($1.2M), Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures ($845k).
Does Ctia - the Wireless Association fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ctia - the Wireless Association?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ncta - the Internet & Television Association, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Edison Electric Institute Inc.
Where is Ctia - the Wireless Association based?: Ctia - the Wireless Association is based in DC.