Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati
Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $799,710 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $800k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati does
Mission
Research the human rights impact and value of voluntary initiatives that address business and human rights including how the form and structure of businesses affects their impacts, facilitate learning in the field, and develop tools to evaluate initiatives from a human rights perspective.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
MSI Integrity published articles and blogs, was featured in news reports and participated in virtual events and discussions to disseminate the findings of our 235-page report, published in 2020, on the effectiveness of voluntary business and human rights-related initiatives, and the importance of challenging the corporate form. The organization also engaged a variety of partners and conducted and compiled research into alternative corporate governance structures that are more human rights-centric.
$46,267 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,267.
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 2021 to 2022, from $459k to $83k (−82%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 11% · 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $400k → $400k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati’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
Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 75% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati's revenue fell 98% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,663 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati
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.
Public support
27%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati?
- Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $799,710 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $799,710 in grants to Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati?
- FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati 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.
Play a game about who funds Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiati →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing