Funding search · EIN 133133702 · Long Island City, NY

The Jim Henson Foundation

Name: The Jim Henson Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

173
grants reported: $918,000
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

9 grants matching “puppetry” · $121,500

$1,250
Green Feather Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
Patch (puppetry at the carriage house)
$1,250
Loco7 Dane Puppet Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2025
Patch (puppetry at the carriage house)
$1,000
Shake On the Lake · Silver Lake, NY · 2025
Patch (puppetry at the carriage house)
$25,000
Center for Puppetry Arts · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Puppet production
$25,000
Center for Puppetry Arts · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Puppet production
$10,000
Center for Puppetry Arts · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Puppet production
$5,000
Center for Puppetry Arts · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Puppet production
$3,000
American Theater for Puppetry Arts · Austerlitz, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$50,000
Center for Puppetry Arts · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Puppet production

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Center for Puppetry Arts5 grants · $115,000
Here Arts Center13 grants · $87,000
Dixon Place8 grants · $50,000
La Mama4 grants · $35,000
Fractured Atlas8 grants · $33,000
New Victory Theater3 grants · $30,000
Puppeteers of America9 grants · $28,500
Japan Society4 grants · $27,000
Shake On the Lake7 grants · $25,000
The Center at West Park4 grants · $22,000

Giving over time

$227,000

2022

$258,000

2023

$230,000

2024

$203,000

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 173 grants.

$50,000
Center for Puppetry Arts · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Puppet production
$25,000
Center for Puppetry Arts · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Puppet production
$25,000
Center for Puppetry Arts · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Puppet production
$10,000
Dixon Place · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$10,000
Here Arts Center · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$10,000
La Mama · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$10,000
New Victory Theater · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$10,000
Dixon Place · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$10,000
Here Arts Center · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$10,000
Japan Society · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$10,000
La Mama · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$10,000
New Victory Theater · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$10,000
Center for Puppetry Arts · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Puppet production
$10,000
Here Arts Center · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$10,000
La Mama · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$10,000
New Victory Theater · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$10,000
St Ann'S Warehouse · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$10,000
Here Arts Center · New York, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$7,000
Automata · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
Puppet production
$7,000
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival · Chicago, IL · 2025
Puppet production
$7,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$7,000
Great Small Works · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$7,000
Here Arts Center · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$7,000
Puppeteers of America · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
Puppet production
$7,000
Skysaver Productions · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$7,000
The Brick Theater · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$7,000
Austin Creative Alliance · Austin, TX · 2024
Puppet production
$7,000
Dixon Place · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$7,000
Here Arts Center · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$7,000
Japan Society · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$7,000
Monkeybar'S Harmolodic Workshop · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Puppet production
$7,000
Rogue Artists Ensemble · Sun Valley, CA · 2024
Puppet production
$7,000
Shadowlight Productions · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Puppet production
$7,000
Shake On the Lake · Silver Lake, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$7,000
Asheville Creative Arts · Black Mountain, NC · 2023
Puppet production
$7,000
Concrete Temple Theatre · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$7,000
Flock Theatre · New London, CT · 2023
Puppet production
$7,000
Loco7 Dane Puppet Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$7,000
Sandglass Theater · Putney, VT · 2023
Puppet production
$7,000
Shadowlight Productions · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Puppet production
$7,000
The Center at West Park · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$7,000
Yara Arts Group · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$7,000
Glass Half Full Theatre · Austin, TX · 2022
Puppet production
$7,000
Here Arts Center · New York, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$7,000
Open Eye Theatre · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
Puppet production
$7,000
Ping Chong and Company · New York, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$7,000
The Object Group · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Puppet production
$7,000
Welltone New Music · New York, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$5,000
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival · Chicago, IL · 2025
Allelu award
$5,000
Dixon Place · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$5,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2025
Allelu award
$5,000
Here Arts Center · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$5,000
La Mama · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$5,000
Lincoln Center · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$5,000
Research Foundation of the Cuny · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$5,000
The Battery Conservancy · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$5,000
The Center at West Park · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$5,000
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center · Waterford, CT · 2025
Puppet production
$5,000
Wakka Wakka Productions · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Allelu award
$5,000
Dixon Place · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$5,000
Here Arts Center · New York, NY · 2024
Allelu award
$5,000
The Battery Conservancy · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$5,000
The Bushwick Starr · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Allelu award
$5,000
The Center at West Park · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$5,000
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center · Waterford, CT · 2024
Puppet production
$5,000
The Tank · New York, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$5,000
59e59 Theaters · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$5,000
Bam · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$5,000
Center for Puppetry Arts · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Puppet production
$5,000
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival · Chicago, IL · 2023
Allelu award
$5,000
Dixon Place · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$5,000
Flushing Town Hall · Flushing, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$5,000
Japan Society · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$5,000
Shake On the Lake · Silver Lake, NY · 2023
Allelu award
$5,000
Teatro Sea · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$5,000
The Battery Conservancy · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$5,000
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center · Waterford, CT · 2023
Puppet production
$5,000
The Public Theater · New York, NY · 2023
Puppet production
$5,000
Bam · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$5,000
Dixon Place · New York, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$5,000
Fractured Atlas · Hartsdale, NY · 2022
Allelu award
$5,000
Here Arts Center · New York, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$5,000
Here Arts Center · New York, NY · 2022
Allelu award
$5,000
Japan Society · New York, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$5,000
Sandglass Theater · Putney, VT · 2022
Allelu award
$5,000
Soho Repertory Theatre · New York, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$5,000
St Ann'S Warehouse · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$5,000
The Battery Conservancy · New York, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$5,000
The Center at West Park · New York, NY · 2022
Puppet production
$5,000
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center · Waterford, CT · 2022
O'neill residency
$4,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2025
Puppet production
$4,000
Mesner Puppet Theater · Kansas City, MO · 2025
Puppet production
$4,000
Paperhand Puppet Project · Graham, NC · 2025
Puppet production
$4,000
Puppeteers of America · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
Puppet production
$4,000
Black Cherry Puppet Theater · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Puppet production
$4,000
Great Arizona Puppet Theater · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Puppet production
$4,000
Haiti Cultural Exchange · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Puppet production
$4,000
Intersection for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Puppet production
$4,000
Puppeteers of America · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Puppet production
$4,000
St Peter'S Episcopal Church · Detroit, MI · 2024
Puppet production

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.