New York · Private foundation
The Jim Henson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $227k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 41
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Jim Henson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $227k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $261k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $288k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $253k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $236k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $287k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Puppetry Artsinc | $213,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center | $145,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Puppeteers of America Inc | $46,500 | 6 | 9% |
| Puppet Showplace Inc | $34,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Center at West Park Inc | $32,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Shake on the Lake Inc | $28,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Japan Society Inc | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($400k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Jim Henson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Jane Henson Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Map Fund Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren LLP · The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts · Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III · The Ford Foundation · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc
How this is measured
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About The Jim Henson Foundation
- How much does The Jim Henson Foundation give?
- The Jim Henson Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $227,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Jim Henson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%), Education (1%).
- Who are The Jim Henson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Center for Puppetry Artsinc ($213k), Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center ($145k), Fractured Atlas Inc ($55k).
- Does The Jim Henson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jim Henson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jim Henson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mid Atlantic Arts Inc, The Jane Henson Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Jim Henson Foundation based?
- The Jim Henson Foundation is based in NY.
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