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FRACTURED ATLAS INC
The mission of fractured atlas is to make the journey from inspiration to practice more accessible and equitable for artists and creatives.
$30M
Granted FY2023
432
Grants
39
Communities
$2.9M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of FRACTURED ATLAS INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2023 · 432 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k116 grants · $835k
- $10k–50k240 grants · $5.4M
- $50k–250k61 grants · $5.6M
- $250k+15 grants · $8.7M
$17,075
Median grant
39
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NEW TECH INNOVATION LLC$2,905,529
- CRENSHAW DAIRY MART LLC$1,414,614
- CYLAND FOUNDATION INC$658,127
- SCOPE OF WORK CO$422,570
- SAGANWORKS INC$358,800
- ORANGE BLUE GROUP LLC$354,993
- BMOREART LLC$340,486
- SEED POD LLC$310,434
- THE FAITH MATTERS NETWORK COLLABORA$309,749
- SANTA FE LITERARY LLC$307,476
- GRX IMMERSIVE LABS$297,817
- SUNFISH PICTURES$290,694
- VOICES FESTIVAL PRODUCTIONS LLC$258,420
- DAVE SHARP ENTERPRISES LLC$257,463
- THE AFTER FOREVER GROUP$256,219
02The need
03
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$68M · 529 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
529 repeat relationships — 255 still active in FY2023, 274 since wound down; 176 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
529
574
Total granted
$68M
$13M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+81%
+26%
Still filing today
11%
20%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CFCYLAND FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +2609% · 97% of their budget
- JFJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC2× · 2018–2019 · $766k · revenue +1088%
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN IND5× · 2018–2022 · $722k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- POPLAY ON SHAKESPEAREgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.2M · revenue +42% · 60% of their budget
- NBNATIONAL BLACK CULTURAL INFOone grant, 2022 · $461k · revenue -61%
- BRBLACK ROCK ARTS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $351k · revenue -50% · 36% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Contemporary American Theater Festival
Theater and other contemporary arts
Arts & Culture
2
Boston Opera Collaborative
Stage live opera performances.
Arts & Culture
3
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
4
Constella Arts
Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.
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5
Qubit New Music
Promotion of the Arts
Arts & Culture
6
Theatre Three Collaborative Inc
Cultural and educational performances
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7
Baltimore Theatre Project
Artistic Programs
Arts & Culture
8
New Dance Alliance Inc
New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…
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9
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
10
Yard Theater Inc
Providing affordable options for artists in classes, rehearsals, film/photo shoots, and live productions.
Arts & Culture
11
Blessed Unrest Theatre Inc
The creation and presentation of live theatrical performance.
Arts & Culture
12
All Out Arts Inc
Cultural-educational, via multi-discipline arts hosting for the general public, and technical support for arts professionals.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabinet of Curiosity Inc Nfp and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 6 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 28% of your grantees by number, and just 35% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
1%17/1,279
the rest of the field
11%
206,151/1,818,286
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
04the grantee network
202 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
53
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
91
Early backer (in before they grew)
186/202
Grantees still filing
121/202
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$73,002,166Arts & Culture$8,718,848Philanthropy$1,529,264Public Benefit$1,057,655Education$652,056Human Services$412,133Community Improvement$136,457
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Alliance of Resident TheatresNY27× affinity15 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Alliance of Resident Theatres · The Imlay Foundation Inc · New Music USA Inc · AEC Trust · Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc · Tim & Lauren Schrager Family Foundation · Joyce Theater Foundation Inc · Charles Loridans Foundation Inc · The Map Fund Inc · Chamber Music America Inc · Dance Service New York City Inc · Jkw Foundation Tr Ua 092597
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation FRACTURED ATLAS INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- Eureka Ensemble Corporation — 9% of income from government
- Boston Festival Orchestra Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE POND THEATRE COMPANY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
high risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 812874968 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE POND THEATRE COMPANY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Fractured Atlas Inc?
Find your warmest path to Fractured Atlas Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines