California · Nonprofit
SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC
SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,702 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $157k
- Net assets
- $170k
What San Diego Guild of Puppetry Inc does
Mission
We are a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to sharing the magic of puppet theatre through education outreach performances and special events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Free Puppet Camps, Workshops, After School Programs, # served: 711.
$30,600 spent44% of program spendingCCSD - Free Professional Development Planning, TA Training, Curriculum and Standards based school residencies. Grant funding from CAC, Gen Op Support. # served: 1093
$25,449 spentof which $2,540 as grants37% of program spendingPerformances, Libraries (WOL, Casa de Oro, Borrego Springs, Santee, San Marcos, Alpine, Lakeside, Pacific Beach, Oak Park), Community Events - City Heights Dia de los Muertos, City Heights Multicultural Love Fest, Schools, Old Globe theatre, Yr end and Holiday Printing. materials and travel reimbursements # served:14,353
$12,843 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,892.
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 $117k to $247k (+111%).
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: 2022 49% · 2023 46% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.
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
Lynne Jennings
Executive Director/Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $62k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY 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
SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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
35% 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 SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 63% · 2023 81% — 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
100% of SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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
SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY 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 California
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 SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY 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 SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC?
- SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,702 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $156,702 in grants to SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC?
- THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN DIEGO GUILD OF PUPPETRY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 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