Maryland · Nonprofit
The Wilderness Technology Alliance
The Wilderness Technology Alliance (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,247 to it, the largest being The Washington Home Inc ($315,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $446k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $529k
- Net assets
- $380k
What The Wilderness Technology Alliance does
Mission
Pioneering character and technology education for people in need. We accomplish this through character education through wilderness leadership providing free and low-cost technology access technology training and work-based learning often through school-based student-run enterprises called wild tech.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
WildTech conducted its first international service trip in 2024. USA volunteers gained work-based learning experience in education technology and digital inclusion as well as cultural understand by spending two weeks in Tanzania installing computer labs in two schools and training approximately 30 teachers how to utilized technology in the classroom in order to improve student learning providing digital literacy and a pathway to employment or enterpreneurship for students through technology training and work-based learning.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Provide technology workforce development for the indigent through the 7- step wildtech model. 1: identify needy individuals and organizations prioritizing students the homeless and schools serving low-income youth. 2: optional provide leaderships teamwork and individual responsibility through intense outdoor adventure programs. 3: provide technology access most often through free and extremely low-cost refurbished computers. 4: provide foundational digital literacy skills for participants with little or no technology access. 5: provide ict vocational skills for digitally literate participants concentrating on cisco academy and it essentials. 6: provide business and entrepreneurship training for vocationally trained participants. 7: facilitate participants to create wildtech student enterprises that fuse their character and technology skills through work- based learning that produces valuable technology products and services needed by their community generating income to sustain and grow.
$172,268 spentof which $72,575 as grants$19,602 earned by the program29% of program spendingProvide access to technology to dc seniors along with training support and information services valuable to seniors.on november 15 2021 the federal bipartisan infrastructure plan was passed into law. As part of this law the digital equity act provides 2.75 billion to establish three grant programs that promote digital equity and inclusion which is the wtas mission. In 2022 and 2023 every us state developed and completed their state digital equity plan including mapping the digit equity resources in their states for expending those funds. Since the wta has a large program focus on digital equity for seniors and florida has more seniors per capita than any other state the wta obtained a florida business license and florida location in 2023 with 150sf office and 400sf warehouse garage space including all utilities and internet. This is much lower than market rates. We are now actively receiving and processing computer donations from this office meeting with florida digital equity officials and seeking florida grants.
$392,108 spent66% of program spendingProvide Service Learning opportunities for USA students and IT professionals through technology service projects serving the poorest of the poor in the USA and around the world
$26,485 spentof which $6,300 as grants4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $590,861.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $300k to $1.7M (+462%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 36% · 2022 58% · 2023 71% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of The Wilderness Technology Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $28k → $15k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 The Wilderness Technology Alliance’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
The Wilderness Technology Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 The Wilderness Technology Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 59% · 2019 67% · 2020 67% · 2021 60% · 2022 63% · 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
The Wilderness Technology Alliance draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $209k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
The Wilderness Technology Alliance's revenue grew 21% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding The Wilderness Technology Alliance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22k on record.
- Agency for International Development$22k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like The Wilderness Technology Alliance
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 The Wilderness Technology Alliance: 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 The Wilderness Technology Alliance?
- The Wilderness Technology Alliance (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,247 to it, the largest being The Washington Home Inc ($315,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Wilderness Technology Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $529,247 in grants to The Wilderness Technology Alliance, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Wilderness Technology Alliance?
- The Washington Home Inc is the largest funder on record, with $315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Wilderness Technology Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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