Georgia · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC
CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC (Georgia) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,506,645 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,512,601). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Center for Puppetry Artsinc does
Mission
To inspire imagination, education, and community through the global art of puppetry. Our performances, Museum & workshops encourage creativity, support learning, fuel holistic development, and provide accessible opportunities to engage in the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performances: the center offered 553 performances506 family series and 47 new directions series for adults and teensacross seventeen theatrical productions. Family series productions included center productions like rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, the cat in the hat, and harold and the purple crayon, co-productions of rockefeller productions sesame street the musical and pancho rabbit and the coyote, and touring productions like galapagos george and milo the magnificent. New directions series productions included the centers the ghastly dreadfuls and xperimental puppetry theater, along with touring productions like marooned. Additionally, the center celebrated as artistic director emeritus jon ludwig was selected as a 2024 governors award for the arts and humanities honoree.
$2,493,031 spent$1,286,356 earned by the program62% of program spendingMuseum: in addition to welcoming over 100,000 visitors into the museums two permanent exhibition galleries, the center offered a variety of pop-up and special exhibitions and programming. Special exhibitions included down in fraggle rock, which showcased puppets from jim hensons original 1980s television series alongside some created for the revival on appletv+; festive features, which highlighted puppets created to celebrate the winter holidays such as two of the stop motion puppets from the 1964 rankin/bass rudolph the red-nosed reindeer television special, raymond carrs puppetry now exibition showcasing pieces made for television, film, and stage productions; and affectionate anarchy: the henson way, which showcased the artists, innovators, and creators who worked alongside jim henson during the first 25 years of the jim henson company.
$1,238,081 spent$960,010 earned by the program31% of program spendingEducation: in addition to offering over 1,000 hours of the centers signature create-a-puppet workshops to over 30,000 participants, staff reached over 1,400 children and adults with outreach programming and 850 students of all ages and abilities with special workshops. This included partnering with the 2nd grade classrooms of burgess-peterson academy and m. Agnes jones elementary (both atlanta public schools) to ensure diverse voices and ideas were incorporated into the centers 2026 production the stinky cheese man. Meanwhile, the digital learning team used zoom to share workshops and puppet shows with over 3,400 audience members and won another pinnacle award from the center for interactive learning and collaboration (cilc).
$276,772 spentof which $4,000 as grants$419,985 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,007,884.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $20M to $21M (+7%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 25% · 2022 32% · 2023 11% · 2024 5% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Jeffrey Blake
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $558k → $584k.
13 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. 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
CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 75% · 2019 41% · 2020 52% · 2021 28% · 2022 22% · 2023 17% — 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.
How long its funders stay
39% of CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $290k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$265k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC: 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 CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC?
- CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC (Georgia) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,506,645 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,512,601). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $5,506,645 in grants to CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,512,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 68 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing