Georgia · Nonprofit
THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC
THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,371 to it, the largest being BRINGING GOOD NEWS USA ($6,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $259k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $29k
What The Agape Puppets Inc does
Mission
The goal of the organization is to reach the children of the world for jesus christ through the presentation of evangelistic puppets shows, and the training, equipping and resupplying of teams.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
This has been a truly amazing year we have traveled across asia, europe, north and south america. Our adventures have caused us to cross more than 20 states and work in many countries and share with many children in the united states and around the world, always talking with them about the hope of jesus. We always try to target children who are living in difficult places or having a very difficult home life. In the united states, we distributed thousands of brochures, as well as passing out over 1,000 jesus storybook bibles. Many of these children did not own a single book. Our brochure is now available in nine languages and in several of the countries we were able to distribute bibles in the children's native language during our travels, we resupplied 24 puppet teams in brazil with new and consumable equipment that they needed. While in brazil, I did a radio outreach that reached 50,000 people. We worked with many quechua children in the high andes of peru. We flew our brazilian directors to join us in this work and they also joined us for work twice in italy, where we trained and equipped two new teams in milan and rome. Twice, we traveled across ireland and northern ireland…
$192,296 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $192,296.
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 $51k to $102k (+101%).
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.
100% of THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Travis Hutchinson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $242.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 THE AGAPE PUPPETS 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
THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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
THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC's revenue grew 54% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 THE AGAPE PUPPETS 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 THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC?
- THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,371 to it, the largest being BRINGING GOOD NEWS USA ($6,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,371 in grants to THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC?
- BRINGING GOOD NEWS USA is the largest funder on record, with $6,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AGAPE PUPPETS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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