Massachusetts · Nonprofit
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,842,031 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,864,117). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $966k
What The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc does
Mission
The Clayton Christensen Institute enables policymakers, entrepreneurs, and leaders to radically improve entire sectors through rigorous research and community empowerment. Using Disruptive Innovation and other theories developed and taught by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, we develop a clearer understanding of how the world works, so we can create meaningful progress in our world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Education Research team's mission is to apply theories of disruptive innovation to produce research and recommendations that help transform education systems from their current monolithic, factory-model designs into student-centric systems that allow every learner to realize his or her fullest human potential. The education team publishes or collaborates on research papers, white papers, and case studies. Its staff delivers speeches, presentations, and testimonies; authors blogs and contributed articles published in various news outlets and journals; and is interviewed by various media to educate the public about its research findings. It also maintains its social media channels to further disseminates its research findings to various audiences.
$827,419 spent$2,002 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe Global Prosperity Research team's mission is to facilitate and accelerate economic development across the globe by changing the broken conversation about how to alleviate poverty and to provide an actionable framework for generating prosperity. Its research has uncovered that a specific type of innovation, Market-Creating Innovation, creates a domino effect of sustainable economic development. The team aims to provide stakeholders with the tools they need to find, build, and scall these powerful innovations across the globe. Team members disseminate their work through various channels, including books, research papers, blogs, videos, and conferences.
$478,111 spent$48,725 earned by the program21% of program spendingThe Institute's Healthcare Research team's mission is to apply the theories of disruptive innovation to identify and promote solutions to the problems confronting healthcare in the United States. The Team's research tackles these seemingly intractable problems, unveils new insights, shapes industry conversations, and shifts mindsets to create healthier futures for all. They use unique frameworks, novel business model compasses, and strategy roadmaps to identify and promote more effective innovation.
$442,028 spent$5,000 earned by the program19% of program spendingThe Institute's Executive Education program is designed to train participants in the theory of disruptive innovation and related business theories and to help students apply these theories in real world situations.
$555,354 spent$21,038 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,302,912.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2.6M to $997k (−61%).
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: 2022 9% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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 Horn
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $310k → $317k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 funders by total. 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
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 50% · 2021 21% · 2022 42% · 2023 43% — 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
30% of The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation 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 The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc?
- The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,842,031 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,864,117). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $6,842,031 in grants to The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,864,117 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 24 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