· Private foundation
Quarter Century Wireless Association Inc
To promote friendship and cooperation among individuals who were and are currently licensed as Amateur Radio Operators for more than 25 years.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dayton Amateur Radio Assn Inc | $53,000 |
| Radio Club of America | $2,700 |
| ARISS | $2,500 |
| Radio Amateur Satellite Corp AMSAT | $2,500 |
| Gwinnett Amateur Radio Society GAR | $2,500 |
| Family and Community Services Inc | $2,500 |
| Alliance Amateur Radio Club Inc | $2,500 |
| Peekskill-Cortlandt Amateur Radio A | $2,500 |
| Orlando Amateur Radio Club | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against -88% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FFFOUNDATION FOR AMATEUR RADIO INC6× · 2017–2023 · $277k · revenue +519% · 71% of their budget
- DADAYTON AMATEUR RADIO ASSOC INC2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +8%
- OAORLANDO AMATEUR RADIO CLUB INCORPORATED2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- ARAMATEUR RADIO ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -93%
- TATUCSON AMATEUR PACKET RADIO CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -88%
- MOMuseum of Radio Technologyone grant, 2022 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Design, build, install, and train for emergency communications.
The purposes for which our corporation is formed are the following: the promotion of interest in amateur radio communication and experimentation; the establishment of amateur radio networks to provide electronic communications in the event…
Our goal is to promote Amateur Radio as a worthwhile hobby, to promote the advancement of technical competence and operator skills in the art of Amateur Radio, and to serve the community by providing public service and emergency…
Support emergency management
Promotion and development of the Amateur Radio Service. Provide free Amateur Radio emergency communications systems and operators to the served emergency management agencies in Denton County and the State of Texas.
To build and maintain a network of voice and data services to support amateur radio communications in Michigan. These networks are used in times of crisis and to support public services.
Further research in cryptology
The Association shall be an educational service scientific and technical organization devoted to the study of and promotion of interest in Astronomy and its related allied sciences.
The amateur radio club assists in providing communications for newton county, local communities and other service groups during natural and man made disasters
Emergency radio serviceto advance the arts and sciences of radio communications equipment at organization owned repeater sites further extending the communication range of vhf and uhf radiosto provide training and support for public…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amateur Radio On the International Space Station and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Amateur Radio Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AMATEUR RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTON AMATEUR RADIO ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds AMATEUR RADIO ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO AMATEUR RADIO CLUB INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TUCSON AMATEUR PACKET RADIO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Antique Wireless Association ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO AMATEUR SATELLITE CORP ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Quarter Century Wireless Association Inc 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.
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.
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