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Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc

To provide grants and to qualified 501(c)(3) charitable organizations in our contributors' communities and the continental U.S.

$679k
Granted FY2020
23
Grants FY2020
13
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$527kFood & Nutrition$186kHuman Services$141kHousing & Shelter$71kCrime & Legal$60kEducation$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$27kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2020 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $335,268, the rows itemized in this filing. The $679,268 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $344,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k12 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $194k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$7,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$456k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Make a Wish Foundations$57,268
No Kid Hungry$25,000
Childrens Tumor Foundation$25,000
Sandy Hook Promise$25,000
Homes for Our Troops$25,000
St Jude Childrens Res Hosp$25,000
Autism Speaks$25,000
Loaves & Fishes$12,000
Random Acts of Kindness$12,000
Godfrey Lee Education Fdtn$10,000
Kids Food Basket Inc$10,000
Westmoreland County Food Bank$7,000
Community Lighthouse Food Pan$7,000
Amos House$7,000
End Hunger Connecticut$7,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%This Old Horse: $11k → 6%Union Gospel Mission: $7k → 14%Community Action: $9k → 13%Cancer Resource Ctr Hudson Vl: $6k → 14%YMCA of Bristol: $6k → 15%Coburn Place Safehaven II: $6k → 16%Roots and Wings: $7k → 6%Domus Amoris: $11k → 11%Youth Investment Fdn TimberBy: $9k → 11%American National Red Cross: $10k → 11%Central CT Coast YMCA: $9k → 9%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

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
KY
WV
MD
TN
DC
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$761k · 12 repeat orgs$719k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
30

Total granted

$761k
$617k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $149k · revenue +38%
  • CT
    CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $95k · revenue +73%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $75k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • 6O
    64 organizs at 5500 each
    one grant, 2018 · $352k
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +44%
  • HH
    HIGHLANDS HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +37%
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
Hunger Solutions New York Inc

We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…

Food & Nutrition
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
Feeding Westchester Inc

Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.

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4
The Child Center of Ny Inc

The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

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5
Health Care & Rehabilitation Services of Southeastern Vt Inc

Hcrs' mission is to provide creative, collaborative, and compassionate health care services that are responsive to the needs of our communities.

Health
6
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers

To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.

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7
Visiting Nurse Service of New York Home Care Ii

Vns health home care is part of one of the nation's largest nonprofit home and community-based health care organizations. we help people live, age, and heal where they feel most comfortable. please refer to schedule o for additional…

Health
8
Little Flower Children Family Services of New York

Little flower is committed to improving the well-being of the children, families, and individuals with developmental disabilities across nyc and long island so they can reach their full potential. little flower transforms caring into…

Human Services
9
The Children's Village Inc

The children's village (cv) is committed to the wellbeing of children, teens, and families by advocating for, strengthening, and reuniting families; building community partnerships; creating innovative programs; and connecting people to…

Human Services
10
Health and Welfare Council of Long Island Inc

Serve the most vulnerable on li by convening and supporting agencies that serve them

Health
11
Chdfs Inc

Provide intensive in-home support to developmentally and emotionally disturbed children and adolescents and their families.

Youth Development
12
United Services Inc

United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Amwell Township Volunteer Fire Company. 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

50 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. 50 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
39/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

64 organizs at 5500 each: $352,000 · Other64 organizs at 5500 eachSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $50,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHVETERANS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $45,000 · OtherVETERANS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · Other+23 more: $208,356 · Other+23 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $149,268 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICU…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $113,259 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INCCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $95,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATIONST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $75,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL…+4 more: $43,300 · Health+4 moreFeeding America: $75,000 · Food & NutritionKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionWESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionDOMUS AMORIS: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHIS OLD HORSE INC: $10,600 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION INC: $8,550 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $6,175 · Human ServicesCANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association: $5,500 · Human ServicesSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $54,356 · Crime & LegalMORGANTOWN AREA YOUTH SERVICES PROJECT: $5,500 · Crime & LegalHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterWATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $19,000 · EducationWOODLAND HILLS SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationMARLBORO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Education
Other$680,356Health$475,827Food & Nutrition$92,000Human Services$89,325Crime & Legal$59,856Housing & Shelter$57,000Education$36,000

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 budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $149,268 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $113,259 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $54,356 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES TOO: $22,515 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $13,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHIGHLANDS HEALTH: $12,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLARCHE ERIE INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOMUS AMORIS: $11,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetANNIE'S ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $11,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAMWELL TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $10,867 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHIS OLD HORSE INC: $10,600 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEW ROCHELLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAND HILLS SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEER SERVANTS INC: $9,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLACASA: $8,740 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION INC: $8,550 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVNA Community Healthcare Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEND HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF DUNN COUNTY INC: $6,734 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $6,175 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCenter for Hospice Care Southeast Connecticut Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Warren Volunteer Fire Dept: $6,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMORGANTOWN AREA YOUTH SERVICES PROJECT: $5,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Chelsea Groton Founda…Round Room Gives IncCitizens Charitable F…William Caspar Graust…Ion Bank Foundation I…The Pfizer Foundation…McKesson Foundation I…Synchrony FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…Enterprise Holdings F…American Online Givin…
Chelsea Groton FoundationCT17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chelsea Groton Foundation · Round Room Gives Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Online Giving 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 Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc: 75% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Horizons Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Waterford Country School Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Moco Kidsco Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc?

Find your warmest path to Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc 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 56 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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