Wnyhoo-now Inc D/b/a Pause for Inspiration

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
264084813
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Saint Louis, MO, USA
Phone
3149736905
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$114,482
Expenses
$236,255
Assets
$2,283,821
Liabilities
$8,263

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARY GERARD LENIHAN (CEO, PRESIDENT & TREASURER)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARY GERARD LENIHAN (CEO, PRESIDENT & TREASURER): $88,846 total reported compensation

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

Overview

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!

What it reported doing in 2024

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 meetings.- rose day festival empowering women and girls.- better family life (bfl) employment fair, community resource tailgate, and shared 500 pause packets for the better family life back-to-school backpack event. Pause helped prepare and stuff backpacks for children, including "kids can pause for your helpful self" practice cards and kids can pause book.- bridge-the-gap juneteenth celebration.- nurses for newborns event.- archwell health wellness events.- bayer ymca family event.- we shared pause packages and materials with the principal of hamilton elementary school for educators to share with parents during parent-teacher meetings.- on the spot sharing of the eleven pause practices printed on 3x5 pocket-sized cards including: the 4 decisions, parents can pause, teens can pause, kids can pause, teachers can pause, pause for love, pause for peace of mind, pause for wisdom, veterans can pause, pausa para inspiracin spanish card, and incarcerated persons can pause practice cards on a daily basis with those we come across in the casual interactions of daily life.- fulfilled orders, through online shop for pause products and requests for free pause practice cards.- inspired individuals and organizations to become "inspiration stations." these are people who practice the pause and in seeing its value choose to share it with others. They request larger quantities of materials to distribute to others and pause shipped all of the free materials to each inspiration station for free. Inspiration stations currently include educators, business owners, psychologists, social workers, physicians, physician assistants, ministers, health care professionals, and spiritual communities.- regular sharing of e-blasts through constant contact to over 2,000 recipients who have requested to be on the pause email list and sharing posts and videos to social media facebook, instagram, linkedin, and twitter.- free downloadable materials available on the websites: audiobooks and pdf of the pause for inspiration (pause golden book) shared at pauseforinspiration.org, and free video of kids can pause and parents too! Book at pauseforyourhelpfulself.org- pause for inspiration office space: events are held, materials are stored, and daily administration and operations of the nonprofit take place. The office space is open to the public for dropping in to learn how to practice the pause in the midst of everyday life, receive materials, and one-to-one pause mentoring sessions.- one-to-one pause mentoring sessions helping individuals to apply the pause to communications, relationships, work, sports, spiritual life, health, and everyday activities and decisions.- we are willing to practice "pause for inspiration in the midst of everyday life" ourselves every day!

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 60
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -106.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.67; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -22.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $178K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.