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San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild
San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,500 to it, the largest being THE KENNETH T AND EILEEN L NORRIS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $15k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $-4158
What San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild does
Mission
San Diego's Balboa Park Puppet Guild was formed in 2001 with the mission of operating the Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater. The Balboa Park Puppet Guild offers workshops, apprentice opportunities, children's programs and a year round performance schedule offering shows Wednesdays through Sundays.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
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 $4k to $1k (−71%).
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.
20% of San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild’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. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild’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 Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
“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 Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild's revenue fell 82% between 2017 and 2020.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,352 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild
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
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild?
- San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,500 to it, the largest being THE KENNETH T AND EILEEN L NORRIS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21,500 in grants to San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild?
- THE KENNETH T AND EILEEN L NORRIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Diegos Balboa Park Puppet Guild 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 2 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