Connecticut · Nonprofit
Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc
Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,528 to it, the largest being SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $637k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $395k
What Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc does
Mission
To provide grants and to qualified 501(c)(3) charitable organizations in our contributors' communities and the continental U.S.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Grants to qualified 501(c)(3) organizations as selected by Board of Directors from Wireless Zone employee and franchisee suggestions. 156 organizations received grants of $2,000. 22 of these organizations received additional grants of at least $4,000 up to $10,000. 10 grants of $5,000 were awarded based on director recommendations. One organization and its chapters received about $57,000.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $499k to $448k (−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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $500.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Zone Foundation for Giving 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
Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 53% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $778 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.
Organizations like Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 19 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wireless Zone LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc: 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 Zone Foundation for Giving Inc?
- Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,528 to it, the largest being SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $11,528 in grants to Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc?
- SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 4 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