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Mywirelessorg

Mywireless is devoted to grassroots advocacy efforts to identify, educate and persuade mobile wireless consumers to contact policymakers on wireless telecommunication matters that affect them as consumers.

$865k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$2.5MCommunity Improvement$889kSocial Science$545kEducation$280kCivil Rights$250kHuman Services$185kScience & Tech$150kInternational$110kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $545k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $320k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FREE STATE FOUNDATION INC$110,000
INFORMATION TECH & INNOVATION FOUNDATION$60,000
AMERICAN FOR TAX REFORM$50,000
AMERICAN RESOLVE$50,000
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE$50,000
COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$49,000
LGBT TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE$45,000
DIGITAL PROGRESS INSTITUTE$40,000
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN ADVOCATES$35,000
AMERICAN CONSUMER INSTITUTE$30,000
CITIZENS AGAINST GOV'T WASTE$30,000
R STREET INSTITUTE$25,000
GEN-Z EMERGING TECH ACTION$25,000
TECHNOLOGY POLICY INSTITUTE$25,000
AMERICAN ACTION FORUM$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENT DEV: $20k → 11%DEV: $20k → 11%NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENT DEV: $20k → 11%LGBT TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS: $35k → 13%NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENT DEV: $20k → 11%LGBT TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS: $25k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 35 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
9

Total granted

$5.0M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+53%

Still filing today

83%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
EducationPublic BenefitSocial ScienceCivil RightsInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IT
    Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $490k · revenue +57%
  • TB
    THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +2%
  • AC
    American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research
    8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +210%

Funded once

  • DP
    DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +15%
  • FN
    FRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +318%
  • PL
    POLITIC365 LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

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
Competition & Innovation Institute
Public Benefit
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
4
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
5
The Berkeley Policy Institute Inc
Social Science
6
Dc Policy Center

The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…

Public Benefit
7
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
8
Institute for Policy Innovation

It is the mission of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) to provide education, research, analysis and recommendations to policy makers, opinion leaders and the American people designed to help solve public policy problems through…

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9
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
10
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
11
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
12
Us - China Policy Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Action Forum Inc; the most unlike its peers is Technology Policy Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 45 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
27/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Americans for Tax Reform: $320,000 · OtherAmericans for Tax ReformORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS INC: $215,000 · OtherORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS INCCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $205,000 · OtherCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTENATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $170,000 · OtherNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNIONLISTA: $160,000 · OtherLISTACOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $104,000 · OtherNational Black Chamber of Commerce Inc: $100,000 · OtherTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $95,000 · OtherThe Digital Progress Institute: $90,000 · OtherYoung Voices: $80,000 · OtherAmerican Resolve Inc: $75,000 · OtherLGBT TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP: $75,000 · Other+15 more: $525,000 · Other+15 moreTHE FREE STATE FOUNDATION INC: $789,000 · EducationTHE FREE STATE FOUNDATION I…American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research: $240,000 · EducationAmerican Consumer Institute…R STREET INSTITUTE: $195,000 · EducationR STREET INSTITUTE+2 more: $35,000 · EducationTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $380,000 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKIN…JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC: $75,000 · Social ScienceJOINT CENTE…AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC: $75,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN AC…Information Technology and Innovation Foundation: $490,000 · Community ImprovementInformatio…THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $160,000 · Public BenefitPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $72,000 · Public BenefitNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic: $50,000 · Public BenefitTAX FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Public BenefitLGBT TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE: $185,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: $80,000 · Human ServicesTECHNOLOGY POLICY INSTITUTE: $60,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY: $50,000 · InternationalDIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL: $30,000 · International
Other$2,214,000Education$1,259,000Social Science$530,000Community Improvement$490,000Public Benefit$302,000Human Services$265,000International$140,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FREE STATE FOUNDATION INC: $789,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $490,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $380,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmericans for Tax Reform: $320,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research: $240,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS INC: $215,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $205,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $195,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLGBT TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE: $185,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $170,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $160,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $104,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNational Black Chamber of Commerce Inc: $100,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetThe Digital Progress Institute: $90,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetYoung Voices: $80,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: $80,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC: $75,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Resolve Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 74% of budgetAMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $72,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY ONLINE SAFETY INSTITUTE - US: $65,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTECHNOLOGY POLICY INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Hispanic Leadership Fund Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTholos Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE LATINO COALITION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGreenLatinos: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALLvanza: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds THE FREE STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds Americans for Tax Reform ↗
  • Who funds American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE ↗
  • Who funds R STREET INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LGBT TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION ↗
  • Who funds THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds National Black Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Digital Progress Institute ↗
  • Who funds Young Voices ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds American Resolve Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds PELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ONLINE SAFETY INSTITUTE - US ↗
  • Who funds TECHNOLOGY POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Hispanic Leadership Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds CITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds National Coalition on Black Civic Partic ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ↗
  • Who funds Tholos Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds Gen-Z Emerging Technology Action ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LATINO COALITION INC ↗

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 &…Motion Picture Associ…NetChoiceCharles Koch InstituteCharles Koch Foundati…Donors Trust IncUnited States Telecom…Pharmaceutical Resear…National Association …Association for Acces…The Seminar Network I…The Lynde and Harry B…
Ncta - the Internet & Television AssociationDC49.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · Motion Picture Association Inc · NetChoice · Charles Koch Institute · Charles Koch Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · United States Telecom Association · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · National Association of Broadcasters · Association for Accessible Medicines · The Seminar Network Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mywirelessorg funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mywirelessorg. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mywirelessorg?

    Find your warmest path to Mywirelessorg through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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    The unnamed billions
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    The endowment market
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    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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    where grant money is based, and what stays home