Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WOODLAND PATTERN INC
WOODLAND PATTERN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,076,274 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($400,687). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Woodland Pattern Inc does
Mission
Woodland pattern is dedicated to the discovery, cultivation, and presentation of poetry and the arts. Our goals are to promote a lifetime practice of reading and writing; to serve as a forum and resource center in our region; to encourage exchange across the visual, performing, and literary arts; and to act as a bridge between local and national communities of poets and other artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Literary distribution - distribution of small press books
$430,770 spent$123,603 earned by the program48% of program spendingIn-na-po fiscal sponsorship program
$221,988 spent25% of program spendingEducation - classes offered by organization
$199,217 spent$57,162 earned by the program22% of program spendingCollaborations - earned income from contracts with other organizations
$39,512 spent$11,337 earned by the program4% of program spendingWi center for the book
$4,573 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $896,060.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $3.8M (+166%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 13% · 2019 18% · 2020 26% · 2021 17% · 2022 9% · 2023 10% · 2024 7% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of WOODLAND PATTERN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $69k → $390k.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 WOODLAND PATTERN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
WOODLAND PATTERN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
50% 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 WOODLAND PATTERN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 39% · 2019 33% · 2020 29% · 2021 26% · 2022 42% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
29% of WOODLAND PATTERN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
WOODLAND PATTERN INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $673k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WOODLAND PATTERN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WOODLAND PATTERN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WOODLAND PATTERN 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 WOODLAND PATTERN 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 WOODLAND PATTERN INC?
- WOODLAND PATTERN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,076,274 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($400,687). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOODLAND PATTERN INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,076,274 in grants to WOODLAND PATTERN INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOODLAND PATTERN INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $400,687 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOODLAND PATTERN 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing