· 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 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.
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 |
| Family and Community Services Inc | $2,500 |
| Alliance Amateur Radio Club Inc | $2,500 |
| Peekskill-Cortlandt Amateur Radio A | $2,500 |
| Gwinnett Amateur Radio Society GAR | $2,500 |
| ARISS | $2,500 |
| Radio Amateur Satellite Corp AMSAT | $2,500 |
| Orlando Amateur Radio Club | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its 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 +8% since the first grant, against -88% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- AWAntique Wireless Associationone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -20%
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 21 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.
- 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 TUCSON AMATEUR PACKET RADIO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Antique Wireless Association ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO AMATEUR RADIO CLUB INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RADIO AMATEUR SATELLITE CORP ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Quarter Century Wireless Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quarter Century Wireless Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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