Vermont · Nonprofit
SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD
SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD (Vermont) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,041 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($178,922). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Map Fund Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont Inclocal
- The Jim Henson Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2020 18% · 2021 11% · 2022 3% · 2023 11% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD’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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $26k → $116k.
From the IRS filings of SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD’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
SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 37% · 2021 31% · 2022 24% · 2023 27% — 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
75% of SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Map Fund Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont InclocalVT · funds 15 organizations near you
- The Jim Henson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theatre Bay Areaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theatre Communications Group Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiespace Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phyllis C Wattis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Golden Fund Inc Co John Breglio-Paul Weiss Et Alportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD?
- SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD (Vermont) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,041 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($178,922). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $452,041 in grants to SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD?
- NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $178,922 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing