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THE WIRELESS FOUNDATION

EIN 52-1708229 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$2,317,574
Expenses 2024
$1,621,611

Program services were 88.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
1400 16TH ST NW STE 600

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).

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.

  • MEREDITH A BAKER

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $6,240,526
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $6,132,509
    Other
    $108,017
    Hours/week
    1 + 39 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $1,828,140 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $1,581,371 related
    Other
    $0 + $2,722,998 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $43,980 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $64,037 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $6,240,526 related

  • JAMIE HASTINGS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $913,638
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $832,167
    Other
    $81,471
    Hours/week
    1 + 39 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $641,956 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $190,211 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $40,713 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $40,758 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $913,638 related

  • DOLORES KREIGER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $363,102
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $301,019
    Other
    $62,083
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $259,790 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $41,229 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $30,960 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $31,123 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $363,102 related

  • EDUARDO ARTHUR

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANGELA BAKER

    TREASURER (AS OF 05/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EMINENCE GRIFFIN

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 10/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARRIE HUGHES

    VICE CHAIRWOMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RAQUEL NORIEGA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELE THOMAS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER SCHNEIDER

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 10/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL O'BRIEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREA HOGAN

    TREASURER (UNITL 05/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BARBARA BAFFER

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 08/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BLAKE TYE

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 10/2024)

    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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,317,574
    Expenses
    $1,621,611
    Contributions
    $265,000
    Grants paid
    $433,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,803,885
    Expenses
    $1,250,248
    Contributions
    $232,467
    Grants paid
    $440,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,955,746
    Expenses
    $1,084,919
    Contributions
    $123,393
    Grants paid
    $451,000

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.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

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.