Wireless Infrastructure Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541739521
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Arlington, VA, USA
Phone
8007590300
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,080,821
Expenses
$16,018,868
Assets
$8,957,246
Liabilities
$5,946,542

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PATRICK HALLEY (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • PATRICK HALLEY (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,210,588 total reported compensation
  • TIM HOUSE (EXECUTIVE VP): $590,514 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL SAPERSTEIN (SVP OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS & CSO): $448,457 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To drive growth and innovation in broadband connectivity through responsible deployment of wireless infrastructure.

What it reported doing in 2024

The state of Ohio, in collaboration with the Ohio manufacturers' association (oma), has been awarded a three-year, $23.49 million federal grant through the u.s. Economic development administration's good jobs challenge program. The grant aims to invest in high-quality, locally led workforce systems to expand career opportunities and secure well-paid jobs. The Ohio state university (osu) has been granted a subrecipient role with funding not to exceed $3,000,000, to extend the broadband and 5g sector partnership work. Additionally, the wireless infrastructure association (wia) has been awarded the wia industry liaison purchase service for $1,350,000. In 2024, the Ohio state university received $682,760 through the super rapids program to address urgent workforce development and job creation needs and awarded this to wia. This funding supports the broadband and 5g sector partnership through four key initiatives: marketing and outreach services, career counseling and employer matching via gtec talent, website development to centralize resources and engage stakeholders, and the creation of a statewide employer database by ready.net to inform strategic workforce planning. Wia continues to play a critical role as an industry intermediary, supporting program design, training distribution, and data analytics. These efforts build on the foundation established under geer and align with Ohio's broadband & 5g workforce strategy to increase industry career awareness, scale education and training programs, and leverage state and federal funding.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 67% 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: 67
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 51%; rating input score 51; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 0.4%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 12 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 20 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
  • Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 51/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.