Missouri · Nonprofit
WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION
WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being JAVITCH KAREN SOKOLOF CHART FND ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Wnyhoo-Now Inc D/B/A Pause for Inspiration does
Mission
Inspiring people of all ages to practice the pause to access their inner wisdom for a safe, wise, kind, and truly helpful life. Receive inspired help with decisions, communications, creating, continued on schedule olearning, work, and present-centered awareness for a sense of connectedness to your true self and others to do your part in the world. Everyone is worth a pause!
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
People all across the world are asking for and practicing the pause!pause materials have been requested and shipped throughout the u.s. And 25 other countries sharing over 900,000 pause practice cards, 13,000 pause golden books, 5,000 audiobooks, 4,000 t-shirts, and 7,500 kids and parents books to date.ongoing sharing of the pause practices and free pause materials with k-12 schools, colleges and universities, community organizations, and businesses as follows:- faculty development center at webster university.continued on schedule o- nasa eclipse automoth program at the ouachita river school district in mena, ar in which kathy rusert, national outstanding educator, shared pause practices with 2,000 people.- kathy rusert taught "kids can pause" with 600 k-1 students in the classroom; over 500 4th-6th grade students, and 100 parents.- created curriculum for upcoming "school of pause" online school for adults.- began creating an online school platform.- st. Louis university: school of nursing for students in the accelerated bsn program, wellness week, dean of students office, campus ministry, and human resource departments.- st. Louis development corporation's staff development…
$177,940 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $177,940.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.7M to $2.5M (−9%).
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.
18% of WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Mary Gerard Lenihan
CEO, president & treasurer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION’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.
Where its funders are
WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
29%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Pfi Donations LLC · disregarded
- San Marcos Charitable Donation LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION?
- WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being JAVITCH KAREN SOKOLOF CHART FND ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION?
- JAVITCH KAREN SOKOLOF CHART FND is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WNYHOO-NOW INC D/B/A PAUSE FOR INSPIRATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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