Puppets in the City
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821334448
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- SLC, UT, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,120
- Expenses
- $17,211
- Assets
- $6,994
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Shelby M Rickart (Director)
- Eva Belliston (Production Manager)
- Julia Breault (Sound Design)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To reach people of all ages abilities races religions sexual identification and social backgrounds through puppetry. We want everyone to have the opportunity to experience stories and tell their own stories with all kinds of puppets.
What it reported doing in 2025
Partnership with Salt Lake City Library System We are provide free puppet shows for the main and outlying branches. The show are at no cost to the library or the public. Funds are used to pay for puppeteers puppet-making supplies and travel expenses. So far we have reached 250 people and will continue to provide shows.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 59% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 58.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.