New York · Nonprofit
Antique Wireless Association
Antique Wireless Association (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,247 to it, the largest being QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Antique Wireless Association does
Mission
See Schedule OIn order to achieve our Vision, we will:1. Continue to collect, research, restore, and preserve objects of historical significance to the technology of communications and entertainment, 2. Publish the facts on the history of the technology of communications and entertainment, 3. Document/index/organize the collection to facilitate research access to our information, 4. Create a museum and staff that engages our visitors to want to learn more about communications specifically and technology generally, 5. Develop educational programs and opportunities for all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operate a public communications history museum by serving visitors.
$179,714 spent$82,246 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $179,714.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $1.8M (+10%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
41% of Antique Wireless Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Robert Hobday
President and Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $80 → $42.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Antique Wireless Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Antique Wireless Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Antique Wireless Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Antique Wireless Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Antique Wireless Association holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Antique Wireless Association
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Antique Wireless Association: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Antique Wireless Association?
- Antique Wireless Association (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,247 to it, the largest being QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Antique Wireless Association have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,247 in grants to Antique Wireless Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Antique Wireless Association?
- QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Antique Wireless Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing