Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Wireless Neighborhoods
Wireless Neighborhoods (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,012,217 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($1,255,124). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Wireless Neighborhoods does
Mission
Neighbohood Learning Alliance exists to improve the lives of lower income and African-American families of the City of Pittsburgh through strategic partnerhips with community and faith organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wireless Neighborhoods, dba Neighborhood Learning Alliance, has been a trusted provider of high-quality afterschool and youth development programming for Pittsburgh and first ring suburban lower income communities since 2003. For more than two decades, NLA has focused on expanding educational access and opportunities for students through comprehensive programming delivered outside of the traditional school day. In FY 2025, NLA served more than 600 elementary and high schools students, providing consistent, structured support during critical afterschool hours when students are most vulnerable to academic disengagement. Programming reached more than 500 elementary students, with a strong emphasis on early literacy, academic enrichment, and social-emotional development. More than 100 high school students participated in post-secondary access, workforce preparation, and career development programming designed to support successful transitions into college or trade schools, workforce training programs, and living-wage careers. NLAs model is rooted in collaboration. The organization partners with other community-based organizations, corporations, public school districts, and…
$1,472,829 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,472,829.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+29%).
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: 2017 40% · 2018 58% · 2019 59% · 2020 76% · 2021 75% · 2022 82% · 2023 69% · 2024 65% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Wireless Neighborhoods’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Kashif Henderson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $191k → $210k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Wireless Neighborhoods’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. 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
Wireless Neighborhoods leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 Wireless Neighborhoods.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 75% · 2019 46% · 2020 72% · 2021 73% · 2022 81% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
29% of Wireless Neighborhoods's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of Wireless Neighborhoods's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $647k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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
Wireless Neighborhoods receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.0M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Wireless Neighborhoods
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Wireless Neighborhoods: 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 Neighborhoods?
- Wireless Neighborhoods (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,012,217 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($1,255,124). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Wireless Neighborhoods have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,012,217 in grants to Wireless Neighborhoods, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wireless Neighborhoods?
- THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $1,255,124 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wireless Neighborhoods find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 18 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