PUPPET SHOWPLACE INC

EIN 04-2546402 BROOKLINE, MA

Revenue 2024: $938,645
Expenses 2024: $698,076

Program services were 81.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A65Z
Classification: 2000
Street: 32 STATION ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

PUPPET SHOWPLACE THEATER IS DEDICATED TO PRESENTING OUTSTANDING PROFESSIONAL PUPPETRY TO DIVERSE AUDIENCES THROUGH PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS, AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

YEAR ROUND PUPPET THEATRE PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS & EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, FOR WHICH ADMISSION IS CHARGED. A PUPPETRY DISPLAY AREA AND PUPPET STORE COMPRISE THE LOBBY. PERFORMANCES ALSO TAKE PLACE AT SCHOOLS AND FOR SCHOOL AND CAMP GROUPS. THE PUPPET SHOWPLACE THEATRE (PST) IS A NON-PROFIT PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE IN PUPPETRY FOR ALL AUDIENCES. AS THE FIRST PUPPETRY CENTER IN NEW ENGLAND, WE STRIVE TO PROMOTE AND PRESENT THE MAGICAL WORLD OF PUPPET THEATRE TO A BROAD COMMUNITY; TO EDUCATE AND ENLIGHTEN AUDIENCES OF ALL AGES, ABILITIES AND BACKGROUNDS ABOUT THIS ANCIENT, WORLDWIDE THEATRE.

Expenses $568,643

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Veronica BarronVERONICA BARRON

EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$73,061

From this org

$73,061

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40
Nigel TamtonNIGEL TAMTON

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Julia SwanwickJULIA SWANWICK

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Ursula AugustURSULA AUGUST

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jim KielyJIM KIELY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
John LechnerJOHN LECHNER

PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
Rachel RoccobertonRACHEL ROCCOBERTON

TREASURER AND TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
Elizabeth AscoliELIZABETH ASCOLI

CLERK AND TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Amy WestAMY WEST

VICE PRES AND TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$938,645

Expenses

$698,076

Contributions

$601,702

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$633,928

Expenses

$586,982

Contributions

$315,024

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$546,493

Expenses

$617,311

Contributions

$285,818

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$938,645	$698,076	$601,702	$0
2023	$633,928	$586,982	$315,024	$0
2022	$546,493	$617,311	$285,818	$0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$512,134

Expenses

$464,326

Assets (EOY)

$242,921
2020 · 990

Revenue

$473,174

Expenses

$347,073

Assets (EOY)

$235,755
2019 · 990

Revenue

$479,770

Expenses

$587,468

Assets (EOY)

$80,497
2018 · 990

Revenue

$525,304

Expenses

$521,768

Assets (EOY)

$105,548
2017 · 990

Revenue

$455,835

Expenses

$460,008

Assets (EOY)

$109,711
2016 · 990

Revenue

$541,919

Expenses

$513,393

Assets (EOY)

$105,649
2015 · 990

Revenue

$436,523

Expenses

$413,294

Assets (EOY)

$79,618
2014 · 990

Revenue

$434,395

Expenses

$444,965

Assets (EOY)

$63,340
2013 · 990

Revenue

$448,678

Expenses

$413,521

Assets (EOY)

$79,918
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$359,577

Assets (EOY)

$77,628

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$512,134	$464,326	$242,921
2020	990	$473,174	$347,073	$235,755
2019	990	$479,770	$587,468	$80,497
2018	990	$525,304	$521,768	$105,548
2017	990	$455,835	$460,008	$109,711
2016	990	$541,919	$513,393	$105,649
2015	990	$436,523	$413,294	$79,618
2014	990	$434,395	$444,965	$63,340
2013	990	$448,678	$413,521	$79,918
2012	990	not reported	$359,577	$77,628

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$132,400

2024 DONATIONS
BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$45,000

2024 LEGISLATIVE EARMARK FOR THE PUPPET SHOWPLACE
FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$24,000

2023 DONATIONS
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

$15,000

2022 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
BOSTON FOUNDATION INC

$15,000

2022 Arts
NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC

$11,640

2023 GENERAL OPERATING, CREATION AND/OR PRESENTING SUPPORT
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

$8,000

2022 CULTURE & ARTS
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

$8,000

2024 RELIGION
NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC

$7,873

2022 GENERAL OPERATING, CREATION AND/OR PRESENTING SUPPORT
FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$7,500

2022 DONATIONS

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.