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WIRELESS HISTORY FOUNDATION

EIN 26-2811483 AUSTIN, TX

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Revenue 2024
$569,220
Expenses 2024
$543,327

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A80
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 90716

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Foundation preserves and promotes the history of the wireless industry. The Foundation chronicles the achievements of individuals, the contributions of numerous organizations, and the evolution of markets and technology. The Foundation will research and publish objective information on the people, products, and events crucial to the development of wireless services for use by individuals, businesses, schools and government entities. The organization seeks to increase public understanding of the wireless industry and its social and economic impacts by creating a comprehensive wireless history web site, celebrating landmark events, and supporting recognition programs for extraordinary contributions to the development of wireless communications.

  • The Foundation preserves and promotes the history of the wireless industry. The Foundation chronicles the achievements of individuals, the contributions of numerous organizations, and the evolution of markets and technology.

    Expenses $543,327 · Revenue $85,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jenifer Snyder

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $96,000
    From this org
    $96,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Arlene Harris

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lawrence Movshin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rob Mechaley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Maxfield

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bryan Darr

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ari Fitzgerald

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $569,220
    Expenses
    $543,327
    Contributions
    $484,025
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $588,442
    Expenses
    $526,179
    Contributions
    $493,650
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $492,048
    Expenses
    $362,367
    Contributions
    $414,307
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $374,107
    Expenses
    $288,227
    Assets (EOY)
    $678,311

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $94,875
    Expenses
    $152,029
    Assets (EOY)
    $592,431

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $201,439
    Expenses
    $249,564
    Assets (EOY)
    $649,585

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $239,165
    Expenses
    $298,855
    Assets (EOY)
    $697,710

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $245,484
    Expenses
    $162,345
    Assets (EOY)
    $757,400

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $291,863
    Expenses
    $261,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $674,261

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $329,266
    Expenses
    $219,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $643,439

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $266,009
    Expenses
    $196,398
    Assets (EOY)
    $533,303

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $234,804
    Expenses
    $195,551
    Assets (EOY)
    $463,692

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $183,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $424,439

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2009

Tax period
1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009
Principal officer
Elizabeth Maxfield
Mailing address
8716 Covered BridgeAustin TX 78736
Website
www.wirelesshistoryfoundation.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.