Fractured Atlas Productions

Background

Fractured Atlas Productions is a membership-based arts services organization that provides fiscal sponsorships to arts projects. The group website features the tag line “Igniting the Art of Business, Activism, Progress.” ¹

The group is an intermediary that provides the use of its non-profit status to artists and groups of artists, accepting the funds raised and granting them back to the artist or group less a service fee. In addition, the organization offers letters of consultation for O or P visas that allow foreign recipients to travel to the United States while the same service is provided for its United States-based members to travel abroad. Guidance, direction, operational and fundraising support is also provided for project beneficiaries. ²

The group was originally founded as a theater production company and launched its final major production “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome” on September 7, 2001. Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the group relaunched in 2002 as a membership-based service organization. ^{3  4}

Anti Racism and Oppression Guidelines

The organization previously worked with the group Art in Praxis in developing guidelines that Production CEO Theresa Hubbard described as “continuing building our anti-racism, anti-oppression (ARAO) values.” On its website, the organization’s guidelines list its own definitions of several terms: “Discrimination,” “Oppression,” “Systemic Oppression,” “Individual Oppression,” and “Anti-Oppression.” In addition, the group’s policy statement claims, “Many individuals…face practical barriers and oppressive experiences because of individual and systemic unequal power related to race, ability, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and immigration status.” Finally, in its commitment statement, the group claims to be “committed to anti-oppression principles in all areas of our internal and external work” while recognizing “the leadership of disenfranchised and oppressed individuals and groups to bring about anti-oppressive change…[and] to challenge oppression.”  ^{5  6  7}

Programs

Fiscal Sponsorship

Fractured Atlas Productions’ primary function is fiscal sponsorship, allowing project beneficiaries to use its tax-exempt status to access nonprofit rates from vendors and to raise funds as well as access all group programs. Fractured Atlas levies an administrative fee of 8 percent on funds raised by its fiscal sponsorship subjects. Project beneficiaries are prohibited from some activities, including fund raising funds on Facebook, using Google nonprofit services, conducting a raffle, and collecting credit card information from donors. ^{8  9  8}

As of 2026, the organization claims on their website that $45 million was raised by fiscal project beneficiaries in the last year, while $310 million had been raised over the life of Fractured Atlas’s fiscal sponsorship program. ³

Fractured Atlas Productions claims that it does not select or reject projects based on political views, ideology or artistic quality but does require that the project work be noncommercial, provide public benefits, and comply with limits on lobbying and campaign activity. ²

Several of the organizations that have received fiscal sponsorship include pro-abortion group Abort Mission, Women’s March documentary Resisterhood, indigenous-led environmentalist group Anti-Uranium Mapping Project, community activist group Equality Labs, pro-abortion comedy show “ctrl alt delete,” and Los Angeles-based activist group Crenshaw Dairy Mart. ^{10  11  12  13  14}

Artist Visas

Fractured Atlas Productions provides letters of consultation for O and P visa applicants to immigration attorneys and employers in support of foreign artists traveling to the U.S. In addition, it charges a $250 fee for the letters while being considered a “peer group” by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). ^{15  16}

Fundraising

Fractured Atlas Productions offers a database of projects and fundraising campaigns that provides details on running a successful campaign. As of 2026, it claims to have included roughly 3,191 campaigns and 4,776 projects on its database. ^{17  18}

Activities

In 2013, Fractured Atlas Productions launched Artful.ly and Open Arts Network, both defunct as of 2026, as venture projects. That same year, it acquired software development software Gemini SBS to organize its financial and data system. ¹⁹

Also in 2013, the group released a statement in support of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), with then-executive director Adam Huttler calling it a “game changer” and “huge improvement” for artists. By December 2019, the group announced the end of its own Fractured Atlas Insurance Program claiming that it would focus on “re-doubling our efforts to ignite the art of progress and provide support directly to you as an artist…finding space, selling tickets, raising funds, and teaching you about the tools of the trade with our extensive knowledge base.”  ^{20  21}

In July 2020, during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the group announced it would be cancelling both Artful.ly ticketing and CRM services due to shelter-in-place measures enforced by New York City.  ²²

As of 2026, the group offers The Creative Outpost hosted on Mighty Networks, a program meant to help beneficiaries find collaborators, share ideas, and tips and tools on how to advance project. ²³

In June 2026 it published a blog post written by Elizabeth Larison of the National Coalition Against Censorship promoting “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom” in response to alleged artistic censorship and online criticism. ²⁴

In January 2026, it posted a blog on its website titled “We’re Eliminating the $1k Grant Eligibility Requirement” explaining it would eliminate a previous rule requiring projects seeking fiscal sponsorship to raise $1,000 beforehand to access services. ²⁵

In December 2025, the group published a blog titled “A Complete Tax Guide to Fiscal Sponsorship” designed to explain fiscal sponsorship as well as advice on managing taxable income. ²⁶

Also in December 2025, the group released an Instagram post arguing “the U.S. Still Enforces Income and Asset Limits That Prevent Disabled Creators from Taking on Opportunities, Saving for Emergencies, or Growing Sustainable Careers.”  ²⁷

Funding

Fractured Atlas Productions is also funded through donations and provides the vehicle for foundations to make general grants as well as targeted grants managed by the organization for the benefit of specific projects. Examples include Open Society Institute and Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS) grants of over $817,000 to support Equality Labs from 2018 to 2022, and $5,000,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a financial management system for artists in 2024. ¹²

The group reported receiving $3,472,722 in government funding for tax years 2020 through 2023 including $1,006,455 in 2023, 2.6 percent of its total contributions and grants that year. ²⁸

Leadership

Theresa Hubbard is the CEO of Fractured Atlas Productions. Joining the group in 2011, she is also a steering committee member of the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors and board member of the New York Choral Consortium. ²⁹

Fractured Atlas’s board chair is E. Andrew Taylor. He is also the founder and president of consulting firm Arts Axis LLC. Taylor previously worked as president of the Association of Arts Administration Educators as well as a consulting editor for Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society. ³⁰

Ramphis Castro is the vice chair of the organization as well as the founder of Building Something New. Castro is both a co-founder and general partner of venture capital fund ScienceVest. ^{31  32}

Fractured Atlas Productions is a New York City-based nonprofit organization that provides fiscal sponsorship to local artists and advocacy groups promoting left-of-center policy. Initially created as a production company developing theater performances, the group reorganized as an advocacy group following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The group also provides legal services such as giving project beneficiaries, letters of consultation to visa seekers, and professional services to its members. ^{1  2}

Background

Fractured Atlas Productions is a membership-based arts services organization that provides fiscal sponsorships to arts projects. The group website features the tag line “Igniting the Art of Business, Activism, Progress.” ¹

The group is an intermediary that provides the use of its non-profit status to artists and groups of artists, accepting the funds raised and granting them back to the artist or group less a service fee. In addition, the organization offers letters of consultation for O or P visas that allow foreign recipients to travel to the United States while the same service is provided for its United States-based members to travel abroad. Guidance, direction, operational and fundraising support is also provided for project beneficiaries. ²

The group was originally founded as a theater production company and launched its final major production “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome” on September 7, 2001. Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the group relaunched in 2002 as a membership-based service organization. ^{3  4}

Anti Racism and Oppression Guidelines

The organization previously worked with the group Art in Praxis in developing guidelines that Production CEO Theresa Hubbard described as “continuing building our anti-racism, anti-oppression (ARAO) values.” On its website, the organization’s guidelines list its own definitions of several terms: “Discrimination,” “Oppression,” “Systemic Oppression,” “Individual Oppression,” and “Anti-Oppression.” In addition, the group’s policy statement claims, “Many individuals…face practical barriers and oppressive experiences because of individual and systemic unequal power related to race, ability, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and immigration status.” Finally, in its commitment statement, the group claims to be “committed to anti-oppression principles in all areas of our internal and external work” while recognizing “the leadership of disenfranchised and oppressed individuals and groups to bring about anti-oppressive change…[and] to challenge oppression.”  ^{5  6  7}

Programs

Fiscal Sponsorship

Fractured Atlas Productions’ primary function is fiscal sponsorship, allowing project beneficiaries to use its tax-exempt status to access nonprofit rates from vendors and to raise funds as well as access all group programs. Fractured Atlas levies an administrative fee of 8 percent on funds raised by its fiscal sponsorship subjects. Project beneficiaries are prohibited from some activities, including fund raising funds on Facebook, using Google nonprofit services, conducting a raffle, and collecting credit card information from donors. ^{8  9  8}

As of 2026, the organization claims on their website that $45 million was raised by fiscal project beneficiaries in the last year, while $310 million had been raised over the life of Fractured Atlas’s fiscal sponsorship program. ³

Fractured Atlas Productions claims that it does not select or reject projects based on political views, ideology or artistic quality but does require that the project work be noncommercial, provide public benefits, and comply with limits on lobbying and campaign activity. ²

Several of the organizations that have received fiscal sponsorship include pro-abortion group Abort Mission, Women’s March documentary Resisterhood, indigenous-led environmentalist group Anti-Uranium Mapping Project, community activist group Equality Labs, pro-abortion comedy show “ctrl alt delete,” and Los Angeles-based activist group Crenshaw Dairy Mart. ^{10  11  12  13  14}

Artist Visas

Fractured Atlas Productions provides letters of consultation for O and P visa applicants to immigration attorneys and employers in support of foreign artists traveling to the U.S. In addition, it charges a $250 fee for the letters while being considered a “peer group” by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). ^{15  16}

Fundraising

Fractured Atlas Productions offers a database of projects and fundraising campaigns that provides details on running a successful campaign. As of 2026, it claims to have included roughly 3,191 campaigns and 4,776 projects on its database. ^{17  18}

Activities

In 2013, Fractured Atlas Productions launched Artful.ly and Open Arts Network, both defunct as of 2026, as venture projects. That same year, it acquired software development software Gemini SBS to organize its financial and data system. ¹⁹

Also in 2013, the group released a statement in support of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), with then-executive director Adam Huttler calling it a “game changer” and “huge improvement” for artists. By December 2019, the group announced the end of its own Fractured Atlas Insurance Program claiming that it would focus on “re-doubling our efforts to ignite the art of progress and provide support directly to you as an artist…finding space, selling tickets, raising funds, and teaching you about the tools of the trade with our extensive knowledge base.”  ^{20  21}

In July 2020, during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the group announced it would be cancelling both Artful.ly ticketing and CRM services due to shelter-in-place measures enforced by New York City.  ²²

As of 2026, the group offers The Creative Outpost hosted on Mighty Networks, a program meant to help beneficiaries find collaborators, share ideas, and tips and tools on how to advance project. ²³

In June 2026 it published a blog post written by Elizabeth Larison of the National Coalition Against Censorship promoting “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom” in response to alleged artistic censorship and online criticism. ²⁴

In January 2026, it posted a blog on its website titled “We’re Eliminating the $1k Grant Eligibility Requirement” explaining it would eliminate a previous rule requiring projects seeking fiscal sponsorship to raise $1,000 beforehand to access services. ²⁵

In December 2025, the group published a blog titled “A Complete Tax Guide to Fiscal Sponsorship” designed to explain fiscal sponsorship as well as advice on managing taxable income. ²⁶

Also in December 2025, the group released an Instagram post arguing “the U.S. Still Enforces Income and Asset Limits That Prevent Disabled Creators from Taking on Opportunities, Saving for Emergencies, or Growing Sustainable Careers.”  ²⁷

Funding

Fractured Atlas Productions is also funded through donations and provides the vehicle for foundations to make general grants as well as targeted grants managed by the organization for the benefit of specific projects. Examples include Open Society Institute and Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS) grants of over $817,000 to support Equality Labs from 2018 to 2022, and $5,000,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a financial management system for artists in 2024. ¹²

The group reported receiving $3,472,722 in government funding for tax years 2020 through 2023 including $1,006,455 in 2023, 2.6 percent of its total contributions and grants that year. ²⁸

Leadership

Theresa Hubbard is the CEO of Fractured Atlas Productions. Joining the group in 2011, she is also a steering committee member of the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors and board member of the New York Choral Consortium. ²⁹

Fractured Atlas’s board chair is E. Andrew Taylor. He is also the founder and president of consulting firm Arts Axis LLC. Taylor previously worked as president of the Association of Arts Administration Educators as well as a consulting editor for Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society. ³⁰

Ramphis Castro is the vice chair of the organization as well as the founder of Building Something New. Castro is both a co-founder and general partner of venture capital fund ScienceVest. ^{31  32}