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THE JIM HENSON FOUNDATION
THE JIM HENSON FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,000 to it, the largest being THE JANE HENSON FOUNDATION ($285,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $526k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $305k
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What The Jim Henson Foundation does
Programs
Puppetry at the carriage house (patch) is a residency program setup through The Jim Henson Foundation with support from the jane henson foundation. Puppet theater artists are given access to the henson carriage house space for 5-6 days to rehearse their new work and then perform a work-in-progress at the end of the week in front on an invited audience with a feedback session following the performance. Artists are also given a $1,000 stipend to help offset costs incurred during the residency. The patch residency was awarded to two artists in 2025: tristan allen and jon riddleberger.
$4,750 spentSpecial events - partner venue receptions: in 2025, here arts center and la mama, well-established downtown theater venues in new york city, hosted puppetry festivals and productions. The Jim Henson Foundation supported the opening of these shows, underwriting a reception for here on the evening of opening night on may 1, 2025, to which $1,000 was alloted, and another opening night receiption at here on october 1, 2025 to which $500 was alloted, and one more opening night reception for la mama the evening of november 20, 2025, to which $500 was alloted.
$2,000 spentRichard termine exhibit - bimp: The Jim Henson Foundation has been in partnership with photographer and board member richard termine for a number of years. In 2019, the foundation exhibited richard's photographs in france at the world puppetry festival in charleville-mezieres. This exhibit, american puppet theater today: the photography of richard termine, has toured to a number of locations since. From january 31 to may 11, 2025, the exhibit was on display at the ballard institute and museum of puppetry. The foundation's expenses for this covered the costs of preparing for the installation and strike of the exhibit, the printing of new photos and new signs, exhibit mounting supplies, and advertising materials.
$5,219 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.2M to $6.6M (+59%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $95k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of THE JIM HENSON FOUNDATION’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 JIM HENSON FOUNDATION 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of THE JIM HENSON FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE JIM HENSON FOUNDATION?
- THE JIM HENSON FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,000 to it, the largest being THE JANE HENSON FOUNDATION ($285,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JIM HENSON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $305,000 in grants to THE JIM HENSON FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JIM HENSON FOUNDATION?
- THE JANE HENSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JIM HENSON FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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