Utah · Nonprofit
Puppets in the City
Puppets in the City (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $114 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($114). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $114
- Net assets
- $7k
What Puppets in the City does
Mission
To reach people of all ages abilities races religions sexual identification and social backgrounds through puppetry. We want everyone to have the opportunity to experience stories and tell their own stories with all kinds of puppets.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Partnership with Salt Lake City Library System We are provide free puppet shows for the main and outlying branches. The show are at no cost to the library or the public. Funds are used to pay for puppeteers puppet-making supplies and travel expenses. So far we have reached 250 people and will continue to provide shows.
$0 spentWe offer Puppetry in the Classroom workshops for teachers assisting them to integrate puppetry into their curriculum. We pay for all materials and offer a $100 stipend for teachers. We reach 200 people teachers and their students annually.
$0 spentWe have partnerships with Red Butte Gardens and The Natural History Museum of Utah. Through these partnerships we provide shows and workshops for 3,000-5,000 people.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5k to $7k (+38%).
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.
65% of Puppets in the City’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $33 → $29.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Puppets in the City’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Puppets in the City'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Puppets in the City has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Puppets in the City
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 Utah
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 Puppets in the City: 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 Puppets in the City?
- Puppets in the City (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $114 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($114). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Puppets in the City have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $114 in grants to Puppets in the City, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Puppets in the City?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Puppets in the City find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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