Daily Featured Foundation - 11/20/25

11/20/2025

Here is today’s featured foundation.

The Jim Henson Foundation

Website: https://www.hensonfoundation.org/

Mission & Purpose: To promote and develop the art of puppetry in the United States and to support the artists who create it.

Broad Funding Guidelines: This is a national foundation with an open application process. They are one of the only funders in the country dedicated exclusively to puppetry as a theatrical art form. They offer grants to artists and theaters for the development and production of new works of puppet theater.

Featured Opportunity: The foundation offers Production Grants (up to $7,000) for new shows ready to premiere and Workshop Grants (up to $3,000) for earlier-stage development. They also have Family Grants for new, high-quality puppet theater for children. This is a crucial source of seed funding for experimental and innovative puppet artists.

Recommendation: Individual puppet artists or small, experimental theater companies in the U.S. who are creating a new, original, full-length show for adults or families (not for educational or therapeutic use) and need seed money to build the puppets and workshop the performance.