WiMAX Forum

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
912140609
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
West Linn, OR, USA
Rating
46
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Engineering and Technology

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$70,000
Expenses
$64,765
Assets
$87,959
Liabilities
$61,632

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Declan Byrne (President)

People named in this filing

  • ADCC - Zhu Yanbo (Director)
  • Samsung - Seho Kim (Director)
  • Siemens - Anders Rendahl (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The WiMAX Forum is a worldwide consortium chartered to deliver certification that achieves global interoperability, develop technical specifications based on open standards, pursue a favorable regulatory environment and promote the vision.

What it reported doing in 2025

Certification & Work Groups: Regulatory Working Group - to promote worldwide access to spectrum Fit for Purpose for WiMAX Forum Certified Systems with sufficient harmonization of frequency ranges to facilitate significant economies of scale. To encourage adoption of appropriate regulatory frameworks based on principles of Technology and Service Neutrality allowing service providers to deploy the most appropriate solutions for their markets. To achieve these goals, the Regulatory Working Group is the central authority within the WiMAX Forum on spectrum and regulatory matters. Certification Working Group - the Certification Working Group manages the WiMAX Forum Certified program through the selection and oversight of certification test labs, the evaluation of testing options and the integration of key technical working group system profiles, pics, and TSS & TP deliverables to ensure that products are certified under the highest ethical and technical standards. Global Roaming Working Group - assure availability of global roaming service for WiMAX Networks in a timely manner as demanded by the marketplace. Network Working Group - create End-to-End networking specifications for fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile WiMAX systems, beyond what is defined in the scope of IEEE 802.16 The specifications shall be based on harmonized requirements from the Service Provider Working Group. Service Provider Working Group SPWG - it provides coordinated input from Service Providers to other Working Groups and the WiMAX Forum Board. Participation is open to all WiMAX Forum members. The SPWG is the single source for coordinated recommendations and requirements that drive the network and air interface specifications for WiMAX Networks and products. Technical Working Group TWG - the TWG's charter is to develop technical specifications for the WiMAX Forum Certification program which enable interoperability and conformance testing of products based on the IEEE 802.16 OFDMA MAC/PHY as driven by WiMAX Forum SPWG requirements. Smart Grid Working Group SGWG - the SGWG acts as a focal point for utility interest in WiMAX as a technology for Smart Grid applications, and will promote WiMAX as the premiere technology for Smart Grid applications on a global basis. The group's focus is to define utility requirements and technology profiles that drive the network and air interface specifications and certification for WiMAX networks and products to ensure the development of a healthy Ecosystem of interoperable Smart Grid centric product solutions. This provides a formal method for the utility industry to communicate with the marketing working group, technical working groups and WiMAX Forum Board of Directors.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 22
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 21.4%; rating input score 21
  • Program expense ratio: 23.2%; rating input score 23

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.7; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 54%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -60.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -22.7% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -20.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 21.4% of revenue deployed · 23.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.