Puppet Showplace Inc

Analysis

Puppet Showplace Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Brookline, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Puppet Showplace Inc reported income of $634k and spending of $587k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $480k to $634k (+32%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2024, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Puppet Showplace Inc sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nicks Ride 4 Friends Inc ($634k), Swaminarayan Cultural Association Inc ($634k) and Prairie Historical Society ($634k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% and program service revenue 49% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $226k. At year end it held assets of $251k against liabilities of $121k, net assets of $130k. It reported 15 employees.