Piglet International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843904311
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Westport, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2039841613
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $174,584
- Expenses
- $205,384
- Assets
- $150,295
- Liabilities
- $27,528
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELISSA SHAPIRO (PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY)
- WARREN SHAPIRO (VICE PRESIDENT AND TREASUR)
People named in this filing
- MELISSA SHAPIRO (PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY)
- WARREN SHAPIRO (VICE PRESIDENT AND TREASUR)
- MARC SHAPIRO (LEGAL ADVISOR)
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 piglet mindset educational program is an online collection of lesson plans and curriculum that consists of powerpoint lesson plans and presentations that feature a tiny deaf blind dog piglet and 7 other rescued dogs. Teachers download the educational materials to incorporate them into their ongoing social and emotional learning, growth mindset, and inclusion lessons, teaching their students to be resilient, inclusive, and kind. The program reaches thousands of children through the online materials as well as virtual and in-person school visits. The program is growing with increased exposure through our books, social media platforms, and word of mouth.
What it reported doing in 2025
Piglet mindset educational program - an online program that teachers use to teach growth mindset and inclusion to their students. The program reaches thousands of children through online materials as well as virtual and in person visits. The program is growing with increased exposure through our books, social media, and word of mouth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.3%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 66.5%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.3% of revenue deployed · 66.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $137K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.