Wireless Infrastructure Association Foundation

Analysis

Wireless Infrastructure Association Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Arlington, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wireless Infrastructure Association Foundation reported income of $180k and spending of $36k, leaving 80% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $305k to $180k (-41%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 132%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Wireless Infrastructure Association Foundation sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 51st percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Avery Foundation ($180k), Shelter Friends Inc ($180k) and Ace Mentor Program of America Inc ($180k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 164% of the total. At year end it held assets of $761k against liabilities of $44k, net assets of $718k.