Florida · Nonprofit
QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC
QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,035 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR AMATEUR RADIO INC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $173k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Quarter Century Wireless Association Inc does
Mission
To promote friendship and cooperation among individuals who were and are currently licensed as Amateur Radio Operators for more than 25 years. To operate exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Programs
We have provided a yearly grant to The Foundation for Amateur Radio Inc. a 501c3 public charity which provides the selection and distribution process at no cost. Since Foundation for Amateur Radio are no longer in business we provided our yearly grant to the Dayton Amateur Radio Association DARA a 501c3 public charity. Since 1978 we have paid for 624 individual scholarships totalling $930,350. Last year we paid for 15 Scholarships at $3,000 each.
We provide a membership network including a web site and online a monthly journal in both written and audio versions for the blind which provides information of interest dealing with all facets of amateur radio and reports of the activity of our more than 69 local chapters. Since 1947 more than 39,340 have joined the QCWA and at present we have approximately 3,630 paid up active members who live throughout the United States Canada and Europe. New members are continually added to our rolls by solicitations at various ham radio events such as trade show conventions like HamCation in Orlando FL held in February and the Dayton OH Hamvention held in May of each year attended by more than 30,000 hams from throughout the world. We also advertise in monthly ham Radio Journals and our current active chapters continually recruit new members from their local communities during regular meetings and at Hamfests flea markets and tail gate parties.
We provide college scholarships from our investment funds each year to qualified amateur radio operators and the Foundation for Amateur Radio Inc. FAR a 501c3 public charity provided the selection and distribution process for the scholarships. Since FAR went out of business in 2024 we paid the Scholarship Donations to DARA for distribution to our scholarship recipients. The Scholarship program started with a single $500 scholarship presented to John WA2MYU in 1978. As of 2024 we have awarded 624 scholarships totalling $930,350. As the QCWA is an IRS Section 501c3 charitable organization all donations made to the QCWA Scholarship Fund are federal income tax deductible and are acknowledged in writing. Contributions to the Fund are frequently made in memory of silent keys deceased former Amateur Radio Operators. Our Funds consist of securities held by Charles Schwab and managed by Coldstream Wealth Management Seattle WA.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $1.4M (−18%).
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.
56% of QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC’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. 0 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC’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
QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC.
“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
QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35 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
QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC's revenue grew 24% between 2017 and 2024.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC?
- QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,035 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR AMATEUR RADIO INC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,035 in grants to QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR AMATEUR RADIO INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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