Minnesota · Nonprofit
IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS
IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $973,270 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($350,800). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $410k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $973k
- Net assets
- $215k
What In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mas does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
This year, we have deepened our roots in spaces where we've collaborated for years, while planting the seeds of first-time partnerships: strengthening our connections to old friends, and building opportunities alongside new ones! Our storytime has found a home not only at hobt but at central library in st. Paul, where we've presented a storytime program almost every month during the past fiscal year. Storytime traveled to the midtown global market several times during the year, and it has been presented everywhere from preschools to libraries, daycares to backyards, parks to community-wide celebrations, such as open streets. We were delighted to participate in 21 events; our community programming served over 7,700 audience members and we had storytime audiences of over 4,500.
$211,237 spent$126,924 earned by the program100% of program spendingOver the course of the year, we were grateful to celebrate winter and summer solstices. Two artist cohorts have worked for a year to build two stem puppet shows geared towards elementary grades, and they will be ready to perform in the next fiscal year! "where the river runs created by spencer arevalo, danielle hendricks and lu calvo-searle began touring this fiscal year and "trees are cool created by julie boada, esther ouray and imix ybarra is scheduled for next fiscal year!
Our artist training workshops brought back several veteran artists, who presented on such topics as molding from clay, puppet mechanisms, and object movement to a cohort of emerging and mid-career artists, as well as local teachers and practitioners who are interested in building their puppetry skills. Our educational outreach to schools in minnesota continued with 13 artist residencies and 1,191 students served by those artists in residence.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,237.
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 2019 to 2020, from $992k to $701k (−29%).
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 13% · 2018 20% · 2019 5% · 2020 14% · 2021 9% · 2022 21% · 2023 27% · 2024 29% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Chief executive
Elina Kotlyar
Executive director
Board chair
Yani Foreman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $28k → $105k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 57% · 2019 26% · 2020 27% · 2021 56% · 2022 33% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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
14% of IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
86% of IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $233k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS?
- IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $973,270 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($350,800). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $973,270 in grants to IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $350,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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