· Public charity
Ctia - the Wireless Association
Ctia-the wireless association ("ctia") is a nonprofit membership organization that represents the u.s.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $705k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MYWIRELESSORG | $1,382,400 |
| NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES | $345,000 |
| MULTICULTURAL MEDIA TELECOM AND INTER (MMTC) | $60,000 |
| NATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS | $55,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYORS ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| ASURION COMPASSION FUND | $44,500 |
| NATIONAL BLACK CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS | $40,000 |
| CENTER FORWARD | $35,000 |
| THE RIPON SOCIETY | $33,500 |
| EVERYBODY WINS DC | $31,911 |
| US BLACK CHAMBERS | $30,000 |
| US HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $30,000 |
| FCBA FOUNDATION | $29,735 |
| CONGRESSIONAL INSTITUTE | $27,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $538k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMYWIRELESSORG8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +30% · 98% of their budget
- NFNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES8× · 2017–2024 · $845k · revenue +182%
- NHNATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS8× · 2017–2024 · $328k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- PCPHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +41%
- GCGONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $100k
- CCALINNOVATES-ORGone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -90%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
93 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. 93 of the 100 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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ctia - the Wireless Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ctia - the Wireless Association. Bigger dots raise more.
- The New England Council Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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