The Arts & Business Council acts as a fiscal agent for start-up and small arts groups that are seeking to raise funds through grants and donor support but are not yet incorporated as 501(c) 3 organizations. If incorporation is the right next step, we educate and aid organizations during that process as part of our mission to support cultural groups throughout their development. If you are currently seeking fiscal sponsorship, contact us to learn more or download our application for fiscal sponsorship.

Meet our Current Fiscal Sponsorees

• Art in the Park, Worcester: Public art has the power to energize our public spaces, arouse our thinking, and transform the places where we live, work, and play into beautiful and welcoming spaces that invite pause and interaction. Art in the Park is an extraordinary biennial exhibition of sculptures by New England artists at Worcester’s historic Elm Park.
• Boston Hassle: Boston Hassle fosters a community of writers and citizen journalists who uncover vital elements of our city routinely ignored by mainstream media and allow up-and-coming writers a platform for their work.
• Billboard Hope: This project hopes to beautify and energize the public square and residential space that lives in the shadow of the billboard on the corner of Roxbury and Centre Streets, in John Eliot Square, Roxbury.
• Culture Hustlers:  Culture Hustlers is a business school for creators, made by creators. They help artists build a creative business in one year through podcasts, documentaries, webinars, potlucks, pop-ups, one on ones, and more. All donations go towards scholarships, given to students based on diversity, merit and need.
• Guy Mendilow Ensemble: Folding radio theatre-style stories into a top flight world music concert, the Guy Mendilow Ensemble  is “an international tour de force” (Bethlehem Morning Call) from the Middle East, South and North America. GME combines musicianship with cinematic storytelling in shows that “explode with artistry, refinement, and excitement” (Hebrew Union College).
• Improbable Research: The goal of Improbable Research and projects like their Ig Nobel Prizes is to make people laugh, then make them think. They seek to spur people’s curiosity, and to raise the question: How does one decide what’s important and what’s not—and what’s real and what’s not—in science and everywhere else?
• Perfect 36 The Musical: Perfect 36 is a musical about the passage of the 19th Amendment. The show focuses on events in Nashville, TN in August of 1920 as Tennessee voted to ratify the amendment. Originally created in 1996, this redux includes a reading of the newly revised script and score.
• Powerful Pathways: Powerful Pathways is a creative civic design lab and consultancy that works in policy, community development and the arts using creative media tools, applying design thinking principles and a social equity lens. Their mission is to facilitate social change through consulting, programming and training to non-profits, government agencies and social enterprises.

Previous Fiscal Sponsorees

• Boston Trans Chorus: The Boston Trans Chorus empowers and supports the transgender community through music, as well as outreach and research, so that transgender people are able to build community and lead happier and more integrated lives.
• Convergence Ensemble: This diverse group of instrumentalists and artists is committed to engaging audiences, inspiring local pride, and strengthening the collaborative artistic connections between our various Boston neighborhoods. The ensemble offers compelling concerts featuring seldom-heard instrumental and vocal works, as well as the classics of chamber music repertoire.
• Dunamis: Dunamis ignites agency and transformative growth for emerging artists and arts-managers of color by serving as a nexus for professional development, community-building, consultation, production, advocacy and developing equitable pipelines for access and leadership in creative spaces.
• SOUND SCULPTURE:  An interactive public-art creation designed to make musical composition more physical, and sculptural creation more audible. Portable, location-sensitive blocks are manipulated in space to create physical / sound / light structures.
• The Mobile Incubator: The Mobile Incubator is on a campaign across the US–region by region–to help artists, designers, writers, producers, directors, and other cultural entrepreneurs. Installing as public art, the Mobile Incubator gathers business questions through open office hours and a hotline, and then dispatches advice through podcasts, workshops, livestreams, field reports and exhibitions.
• The Underlings Theatre Co.: A theatre company specializing in classical and classically-inspired productions centered around diversity, inclusivity, and gender equity.