Mywirelessorg
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202404168
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2027363200
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,642,424
- Expenses
- $1,382,159
- Assets
- $6,194,521
- Liabilities
- $57,588
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMIE HASTINGS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SARAH YI (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MEREDITH A BAKER (CHAIRPERSON): $6,240,526 total reported compensation
- BRADLEY GILLEN (DIRECTOR): $1,920,276 total reported compensation
- ROCCO CARLITTI (TREASURER): $994,816 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mywireless is devoted to grassroots advocacy efforts to identify, educate and persuade mobile wireless consumers to contact policymakers on wireless telecommunication matters that affect them as consumers. To accomplish its mission the organization maintains an informational website dedicated to wireless telecommunication issues, develops a network of business, civic and opinion leaders to address issues in wireless telecommunications policy, maintains a broad coalition of consumer allies organized around common goals and recruits consumer allies to disseminate information and maintain a strong consumer activist movement.
What it reported doing in 2024
Coalition building - through advocacy outreach channels during 2024 mywireless added a number of new individual wireless consumers to its database, and maintained past third party relationships while enlisting the support of several new national and state organization coalition partners. At the end of 2024 mywireless had worked on legislative issue efforts with state and national coalition partners, while keeping american wireless consumers informed of issues affecting them.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 64% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.8%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.48; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.6% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6.2M · 7 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $319K reported
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 27 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 29 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.