WOODLAND PATTERN INC

EIN 39-1332252 MILWAUKEE, WI

Revenue 2025: $2,922,957
Expenses 2025: $1,217,585

Program services were 73.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A33Z
Classification: 2000
Street: 720 E LOCUST ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

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.

Activities or mission (Part I)

LITERARY ART CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

LITERARY DISTRIBUTION - DISTRIBUTION OF SMALL PRESS BOOKS

Expenses $430,770 · Revenue $123,603
IN-NA-PO FISCAL SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM

Expenses $221,988
EDUCATION - CLASSES OFFERED BY ORGANIZATION

Expenses $199,217 · Revenue $57,162
COLLABORATIONS - EARNED INCOME FROM CONTRACTS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

Expenses $39,512 · Revenue $11,337
WI CENTER FOR THE BOOK

Expenses $4,573

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Jennifer GroppJENNIFER GROPP

CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$92,196

From this org

$80,838

From related orgs

$0

Other

$11,358

Hours/week

40
Laura SolomonLAURA SOLOMON

CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$92,793

From this org

$80,838

From related orgs

$0

Other

$11,955

Hours/week

40
Sam PekarskeSAM PEKARSKE

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Nakeysha Roberts WashingtonNAKEYSHA ROBERTS WASHINGTON

VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Steve DittmanSTEVE DITTMAN

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Brenda CardenasBRENDA CARDENAS

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Vince BushellVINCE BUSHELL

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Paula KielyPAULA KIELY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Howard LeuHOWARD LEU

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Erick Ck LedesmaERICK CK LEDESMA

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Mary Gute WitteMARY GUTE WITTE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jill SebastianJILL SEBASTIAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Matthew HillsMATTHEW HILLS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Margaret RozgaMARGARET ROZGA

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2025

Revenue

$2,922,957

Expenses

$1,217,585

Contributions

$2,652,198

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$1,044,810

Expenses

$1,030,127

Contributions

$802,813

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$1,227,783

Expenses

$830,447

Contributions

$1,000,978

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$735,495

Expenses

$712,927

Contributions

$556,262

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$2,922,957	$1,217,585	$2,652,198	$0
2024	$1,044,810	$1,030,127	$802,813	$0
2023	$1,227,783	$830,447	$1,000,978	$0
2022	$735,495	$712,927	$556,262	$0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$721,906

Expenses

$518,870

Assets (EOY)

$1,008,719
2020 · 990

Revenue

$539,371

Expenses

$423,772

Assets (EOY)

$836,435
2019 · 990

Revenue

$474,074

Expenses

$465,360

Assets (EOY)

$686,682
2018 · 990

Revenue

$467,866

Expenses

$379,106

Assets (EOY)

$685,786
2017 · 990

Revenue

$340,481

Expenses

$360,851

Assets (EOY)

$517,794
2016 · 990

Revenue

$453,587

Expenses

$401,904

Assets (EOY)

$535,817
2015 · 990

Revenue

$439,820

Expenses

$384,597

Assets (EOY)

$508,004
2014 · 990

Revenue

$376,686

Expenses

$436,461

Assets (EOY)

$425,395
2013 · 990

Revenue

$503,724

Expenses

$368,800

Assets (EOY)

$498,958
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$374,038

Assets (EOY)

$362,513

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$721,906	$518,870	$1,008,719
2020	990	$539,371	$423,772	$836,435
2019	990	$474,074	$465,360	$686,682
2018	990	$467,866	$379,106	$685,786
2017	990	$340,481	$360,851	$517,794
2016	990	$453,587	$401,904	$535,817
2015	990	$439,820	$384,597	$508,004
2014	990	$376,686	$436,461	$425,395
2013	990	$503,724	$368,800	$498,958
2012	990	not reported	$374,038	$362,513

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INCORPORATED

$97,200

2024 POETRY COALITION, POETRY COALITION FELLOWSHIP, LITERARY PARTNERSHIP
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC

$88,336

2024 SUSTAINING SUPPORT
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$83,712

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$78,050

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INCORPORATED

$76,170

2023 CAPACITY BUILDING, LITERARY PARTNERSHIP, POETRY COALITION FELLOWSHIP
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INCORPORATED

$55,090

2022 HAWTHORNDEN REGRANT
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC

$45,000

2024 GENERAL DONATIONS
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$43,150

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC

$26,000

2022 OPERATING SUPPORT
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC

$21,963

2023 GENERAL OPERATING

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.