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The Wireless Foundation

THE WIRELESS FOUNDATION advances positive social impact fueled by innovative wireless technology in american communities.

$433k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$570kPhilanthropy$225kCommunity Improvement$221kEducation$177kHuman Services$135kSocial Science$118kYouth Development$111kAnimals$67kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $340,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $433,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPCHIEVE$111,800
HEALTHY HIP HOP FOUNDATION$62,800
BEFOREWEBEGIN INC$38,400
CAMELBACK VENTURES$25,000
FAST FORWARD$25,000
PATIENTORY INC$16,000
PALMPLUG$16,000
OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION$15,000
STORYUP INC$15,000
KAI XR FUTURES INC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MRELIEF: $104k → 14%MRELIEF: $10k → 14%MRELIEF: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
NJ
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
DC
LA
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 12 repeat orgs$687k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +165% since the first grant, against +72% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$1.1M
$427k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+165%
+72%

Still filing today

50%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • F
    FFWD
    5× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +490%
  • OZ
    OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $189k · revenue +10%
  • O
    OKAYSO
    2× · 2021–2023 · $49k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • R
    RETHINK
    one grant, 2023 · $118k
  • DN
    DOPE NERDS
    one grant, 2023 · $73k
  • B
    BLOOMLIFE
    one grant, 2021 · $55k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

2
Mohuman

mohuman enables people, governments, organizations, and companies to easily and inclusively engage each other in technology and science decision-making.

Science & Tech
3
Knowledge Futures Inc

Knowledge futures is an independent nonprofit organization that builds and supports tools, products, and protocols to make knowledge open, useful, and accessible.

Human Services
4
Audere

We apply our passion for technology to the challenge of improving global health for the world's most resource-limited communities.

5
IDENTITY2020 Systems Inc

Id2020 brings together diverse voices to set technical requirements, influence policy, and accelerate the implementation of digital id programs that benefit the most vulnerable.

6
Watsi Inc

Watsi, inc. is a san francisco-based non-profit organization that directly connects people through technology to fund life-changing healthcare for patients around the world. since launching in 2012, the organization has helped more than…

Health
7
Employu Inc

employU is a nonprofit disability employment service creating an inclusive workforce for people with disabilities through education, empowerment, and advocacy.

Employment
8
The Center for Medical Technology Policy Inc

To develop a health care system where patients, clinicians, health care policymakers, and payers have the evidence they need to make informed health decisions.

9
Idealware Inc

Idealware provides impartial, thoroughly researched, and easy to

10
Musc Foundation for Research Development

1. to support the educational, research, and healthcare mission of the medical university of south carolina (musc) by fostering creativity and innovation. 2. to initiate and sustain cooperation and collaboration between musc and business…

Health
11
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
12
4YOUANDME

4YouandMe is a nonprofit biomedical research organization created to change how individuals could improve their lives with chronic diseases. We were founded to tackle the fundamental unknowns using smart phones and wearables to enable…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kai Xr Futures Inc. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KAI XR — $118,600 · OtherKAI XRRETHINK — $117,500 · OtherRETHINKDOPE NERDS — $72,700 · OtherDOPE NERDSPARROTS INC — $66,800 · OtherPARROTS INCHEALTHY HIP HOP FOUNDATION — $62,800 · OtherHEALTHY HIP HOP FOUNDATIONSTORYUP INC — $57,800 · OtherSTORYUP INCBLOOMLIFE — $54,500 · OtherBLOOMLIFEMindright Health Inc — $50,000 · OtherMindright Health IncOXIWEAR INC — $42,600 · OtherBEFOREWEBEGIN INC — $38,400 · Other+7 more — $140,000 · Other+7 moreUPCHIEVE INC — $111,800 · EducationUPCHIEVE INCOKAYSO — $49,300 · EducationOKAYSOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …KAI XR FUTURES INC — $15,000 · EducationKAI XR FUTURES…FFWD — $225,000 · PhilanthropyFFWDOBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION — $188,550 · HealthOBJECTIVE ZE…THE PATIENTORY FOUNDATION LTD — $16,000 · HealthTHE PATIENTO…CAMELBACK VENTURES — $200,000 · Community ImprovementCAMELBACK VE…mRelief — $119,200 · Human ServicesCURAJOY — $21,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$821,700Education$226,100Philanthropy$225,000Health$204,550Community Improvement$200,000Human Services$119,200Arts & Culture$21,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFFWD — $225,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCAMELBACK VENTURES — $200,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetOBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION — $188,550 over 5y, 20% of budgetmRelief — $119,200 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetUPCHIEVE INC — $111,800 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetOKAYSO — $49,300 over 2y, 15% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCURAJOY — $21,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetKAI XR FUTURES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 43% of budget
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 FFWD
  • Who funds CAMELBACK VENTURES
  • Who funds OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds mRelief
  • Who funds UPCHIEVE INC
  • Who funds OKAYSO
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CURAJOY
  • Who funds THE PATIENTORY FOUNDATION LTD
  • Who funds KAI XR FUTURES INC

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

ImpactassetsincMD10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Wireless Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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