Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,712,012 to it, the largest being DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($700,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Consensus Building Institute Inc does
Mission
The consensus building institute (cbi), founded in 1993, improves the way that leaders collaborate to make organizational decisions, achieve agreements, and manage multi-party conflicts and planning efforts. A nationally and internationally recognized not-for-profit organization, cbi provides strategic planning, organizational development and high-skilled facilitation for state and federal agencies, non-profits, and international development agencies around the world. Our staff are experts in facilitation, mediation, capacity building, citizen engagement, and organizational strategy and development. We are committed to using our skills to build collaboration on today's most significant social, environmental, and economic challenges. We work within and across organizations, sectors, and stakeholder groups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Stakeholder assessment: our mediators conduct assessments to clarify issues, determine the likelihood of getting to an agreement, highlight possible pathways forward, and outline the likely benefits, risks, and costs of proceeding.process design: we design and lead a wide spectrum of collaborative and conflict resolution processes, from one-time meetings to multi-year collective impact efforts. Our facilitators and mediators employ a rich set of techniques and tools, ranging from joint fact-finding to scenario planning to creative visioning.group facilitation: we facilitate multi-stakeholder groups to help create solutions to complex problems, keeping a laser focus on stakeholders' goals, concerns, and values, always working on behalf of the group as a whole. For virtual meetings, we offer a full range of tools and supports for effective online communication and collaboration.mediation: we mediate conflicts, helping the parties engage, communicate, explore, and settle differences. Throughout the process, we focus on building trust, maintaining impartiality, and protecting confidentiality.commercial funds: our commercial funds are related to our mission driven work. Commercial…
$5,573,052 spent$6,091,836 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,573,052.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.2M to $9.3M (+81%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Michael Moffitt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $144k → $454k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 58% · 2022 100% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
20% of CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record — $1.7M federal, $1.6M state.
- Department of the Interior$1.1M
- Department of Homeland Security$239k
- Department of Commerce$154k
- Department of State$118k
- Environmental Protection Agency$23k
- Department of Transportation$14k
- VT$987k
- MA$524k
- NJ$43k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Consensus Building Services Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC?
- CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,712,012 to it, the largest being DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($700,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,712,012 in grants to CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC?
- DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing