Wisconsin · Nonprofit
PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC
PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,907 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $264k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $210k
- Net assets
- $65k
What Pillows With Wings Inc does
Mission
To foster social and emotional wellbeing, empowering individuals and enriching communities. We believe that education extends beyond the classroom to support holistic personal growth. Our learning platform drives social and emotional change globally, one transformed life and nurtured community at a time. Through faithforward content, we aim to inspire compassion, empathy, and resilience, sparking a ripple effect of positive change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We expanded the program from k-2 to k-8. Our christian life skills curriculum equips student with tools to grow in emotional awareness, confidence, character and faith. Designed for elementary and middle school aged children, the program supports both classroom learning and family engagement, helping children develop lifelong coping skills rooted in connection and hope.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
In 2025,pillows with wings expanded its presence across 15 urban parochial schools, bringing emotional resilience tools to students and educators who are often on the front lines without adequate mental health resources.
$295,954 spent$55,639 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $295,954.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $13k to $274k (+1939%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Martha Putnam
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $1k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
93% of PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
27%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC?
- PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,907 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $209,907 in grants to PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing