· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 489 grants below total $25,584,037 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $34,395,662 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,811,625 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k137 grants · $991k
- $10k–50k271 grants · $6.0M
- $50k–250k65 grants · $6.4M
- $250k+16 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW TECH INNOVATION LLC | $2,102,418 |
| ART POWER INC | $2,008,158 |
| CRENSHAW DAIRY MART LLC | $1,301,335 |
| SAGANWORKS INC | $1,208,436 |
| SEED POD LLC | $741,543 |
| CYLAND FOUNDATION INC | $616,884 |
| MIND CAPO INC | $549,851 |
| DAVE SHARP ENTERPRISES LLC | $536,719 |
| SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FES | $484,019 |
| SCOPE OF WORK CO | $445,117 |
| WOCA INC | $430,920 |
| SIFTMEDIA 215 COLLECTIVE INC | $404,190 |
| THE FAITH MATTERS NETWORK COLLABORA | $393,519 |
| HEALING PROJECT ARTS LLC | $357,631 |
| SAN QUENTIN MARATHON LLC | $350,567 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $720k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
714 repeat relationships — 288 still active in FY2024, 426 since wound down; 201 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 INC4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue ×27 · 97% of their budget
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION7× · 2017–2024 · $881k · revenue +34%- JFJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $814k · revenue ×12
Funded once
- POPLAY ON SHAKESPEAREgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.2M · revenue +42% · 60% of their budget
- NBNational Black Cultural Information Trust Incone grant, 2022 · $461k · revenue -61%
- BRBLACK ROCK GLOBAL ARTS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $351k · revenue -42% · 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.
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.
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
To present and promote contemporary classical music through innovative, interdisciplinary performances; to support living composers; and to engage diverse audiences through education, collaboration, and community-based programming.…
The Ghost Road Company develops original performance pieces employing Ensemble-Devising and collaborative creation techniques creating experimental theatrical works that are highly physical visceral and visual The companys work emphasizes…
Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.
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…
Noveltease Theatre pays homage to literary burlesque of the late 19th century by combining theatrical adaptations of classic texts with contemporary striptease. Our intention is not to mock, but to productively muddle the "highbrow" art of…
Cultural and educational performances
Lively productions presents new work for the stage by emerging artists, and seeks to create innovative theatrical opportunities in a world increasingly defined by real time interactions and new technologies
Artibus is dedicated to strengthening community through the experience of live performance. We are a hub in Denver for intimate, original performances that explore important social themes and for building community through shared space,…
Extreme lengths productions is a dc- based arts collaborative
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wavefield Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stray Cat Film Center. 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.
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) — 34% of your grantees by number, and just 43% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
245 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 245 of the 1,617 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
Open a dossier: Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc · New Music USA Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Chamber Music America Inc · AEC Trust · Charles Loridans Foundation Inc · Tim & Lauren Schrager Family Foundation · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006 · Joyce Theater Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc
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 organization 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.
- Boston Festival Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- Kendall Square Orchestra Inc — 2% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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