
Unfolding - Margarita Blush Productions
2015 Production Grant, 2014 Workshop Grant, Photo: Richard Termine
For Grantees
Requesting Funds
When you are ready to begin work on your project, please send us a signed letter requesting your funds. This letter should include your upcoming premiere dates of your project or work-in-progress and should be emailed as a PDF attachment. We will forward a check within two weeks of receipt of your letter. If you applied using a fiscal sponsor, indicate in your letter whether the check should be mailed directly to you or to your fiscal sponsor. (The check must still be made out to your fiscal sponsor, even if it is mailed to you.) If your check is mailed to your fiscal sponsor, we will also send you a letter to let you know that the check has been sent.
Updating Project Information
Please add us to your organization’s mailing list using the address happenings@hensonfoundation.org and send us a copy of any project-related announcements, press releases, or any other materials about upcoming performances. If there are any significant changes to your project as outlined in your application, it is important that you contact our Foundation Manager, Z. Briggs, to discuss them in advance. We also ask that you notify us as early as possible of any upcoming performances, and submit performances of granted work to our Puppet Happenings listings.
Crediting the Foundation
Shortly after we have informed you that you have been awarded a grant, we will send you a copy of our logo. Please credit us in all materials relating to your project using our full name, The Jim Henson Foundation and, whenever possible, our logo. If you need a copy of our logo or a high-resolution version for print, please email us at info@hensonfoundation.org, and we will send it to you.

Photo: Richard Termine
Submitting Your Final Report
The due date for your final report is given in the letter accompanying your check. We accept final reports twice yearly, on May 1st and November 1st. Unlike our application deadlines, this is not a postmark deadline. Final reports must be received by 11:59pm. In the event that either date falls on a weekend, the due date will be the following Monday.
2021 Final Report Deadlines
May 3, 2021: | Deadline to receive Final Reports for review for Spring |
November 1, 2021: | Deadline to receive Final Reports for review for Fall |
The requirements for your final report are listed here and in the letter accompanying your check. We require you to submit a Multi-page PDF that includes the following:
- A letter describing the outcome of your project and what the grant enabled you to accomplish.
- A budget indicating how your funds were spent.
- A small selection of programs, press clippings, photographs, and other supplementary materials.
- A video file containing 4 minutes of the final production. This is a requirement for all Production Workshop & Family Grants. Workshop grant final reports need to submit video highlighting the puppetry in the piece and how the grant allowed for the work to progress.
- All video submissions should be high quality .mov, .mp4 or .m4v files. We prefer .mov files whenever possible.
- File should be no larger than 2GB
- File should be 3-4 minutes, but no longer than 4 minutes.
- The video you submit needs to showcase excellence of the puppetry in the work. Please do not send video that contains little to no puppetry.
The multi-page PDF and video footage need to be uploaded to: https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/HensonFoundation
When submitting your application materials via the Hightail.com link above:
- under “Message” write the name of the artist or company that is submitting the Grant Application, which category you received a grant for (Production, Workshop or Family), and any other notes that may be necessary.
- All grantees who have premiered their work are invited to mail the Foundation a flash drive of the full length piece for our archives. This is encouraged but is not a requirement.
If you have problems or questions concerning your final report, you must contact us well in advance of your due date. Late or incomplete final reports will be taken into account when reviewing any future funding requests. An email will be sent to you acknowledging the acceptance of your final report within one week of its receipt.