New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC
AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($62,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $11k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $62k
What American Theater for Puppetry Arts Inc does
Mission
The american theater for puppetry arts is dedicated to advancing puppetry in the united states by introducing the art form and vocation to broader and more diverse individuals audiences and communities the nonprofit theater will accomplish its purpose and mission by developing building and presenting original puppet-centric plays musicals and immersive theatrical experiences training a new generation of puppet directors writers designers builders puppeteers and theater administrators through educational hands-on residencies internships workshops and camps incubating and advancing puppet-centric productions created by independent puppeteers and artists as well as nonprofit theater companies celebrating the legacies of great american puppeteers and puppet theaters and serving as an ambassador of puppetry with performing arts organizations and leaders public and private funders and theatrical producers and presenters
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The american theater for puppetry arts advanced development of three puppet-centric theatrical productions to be presented in future years the organization also initiated a collaboration with the norman rockwell museum to mount an exhibition on tony sarg --- the father of modern american puppetry as well as to develop programming to support the exhibition that will open in june 2023 the organization also supported development of the 9000 balloons puppet production
$25,422 spentof which $1,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,422.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $78k to $62k (−21%).
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.
100% of AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Darin E Johnson
CEO and board president
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $23k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 43% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC's revenue fell 88% between 2021 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS 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 AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC?
- AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($62,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $95,000 in grants to AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $62,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN THEATER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing