Enterprise Wireless Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530241669
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Herndon, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7035285115
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,125,609
- Expenses
- $5,011,230
- Assets
- $8,640,630
- Liabilities
- $1,832,568
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
58 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBIN COHEN (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- ERIC HILL (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT O)
- KYLE ENTZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STRAT I)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBIN COHEN (PRESIDENT/CEO): $425,155 total reported compensation
- ERIC HILL (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT O): $297,775 total reported compensation
- MARK CROSBY (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $254,304 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Enterprise wireless alliance, inc. Was organized to provide business enterprises, communication service providers, radio dealers, and technology manufacturers the opportunity to share and distribute information concerning wireless communications and business. Ewa also maintains a frequency advisory system designed to supply licensees and applicants with frequency recommendation in respect to all spectrum for which ewa is a designated frequency coordinator. Ewa represents and speaks for the membership in making recommendations to the federal communications commission (fcc) and other governmental agencies on rule making and other matters of interest to the membership. Ewa also provides administrative services, data dissemination, information anaylsis, and other related services designed to assist users of radio spectrum in managing their telecommunications systems, and generally keeping informed of developments in the telecommunications industry.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ewa is an fcc certified frequency advisory committee that assists business enterprises and other entities to secure authority from the fcc to use radio spectrum for use within private internal and private carrier wireless communications systems. Ewa also serves as a national advocate for its members on spectrum allocation and regulatory policy matters at the federal government level. Ewa provides a variety of educational and related services that support these activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 58
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96.2%; rating input score 96; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 50 of 52 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $425K · 58 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.8M reported
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.