Virginia · Nonprofit
WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $56,647 to it, the largest being LAW ROCKS INC ($56,647). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $744k
What Wireless Infrastructure Association Foundation does
Mission
The wia foundation is a nonprofit charitable and educational organization dedicated to advancing the wireless industry by encouraging and promoting education, research, and training programs. The wia foundation supports efforts to raise awareness about careers in the wireless and broadband industries and activities to enable a strong workforce necessary to achieve wia's mission of achieving connectivity everywhere.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The wia foundation is a nonprofit charitable and educational organization dedicated to advancing the wireless industry by encouraging and promoting education, research, and training programs. The wia foundation supports efforts to raise awareness about careers in the wireless and broadband industries and activities to enable a strong and diverse workforce necessary to achieve wia's mission of achieving connectivity everywhere.in 2023 and 2024, wia foundation hosted a luncheon to celebrate the outstanding contributions of women to the growth and development of the telecommunications industry. The members of congress, the fcc, and industry leadership that support development of the workforce needed to build america's 5g wireless networks were recognized.
$23,750 spentof which $23,750 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $23,750.
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 2019 to 2020, from $738k to $387k (−47%).
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.
312% of WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Amy Jo Smauel
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Wireless Infrastructure Association · exempt
- Wireless Infrastructure Association PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: 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 WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION?
- WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $56,647 to it, the largest being LAW ROCKS INC ($56,647). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $56,647 in grants to WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION?
- LAW ROCKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $56,647 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 1 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