Massachusetts · Nonprofit
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,332,031 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,864,117). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Laura and John Arnold Foundationshared funders
- Mercatus Center Incportfolio match
- International Sustainable Energy Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $310k → $317k.
6 of 22 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 The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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 45% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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
33% of The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 94% 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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Laura and John Arnold Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Mercatus Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Sustainable Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dassault Systemes US Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wolstencroft Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Renaissance Philanthropy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter G Peterson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
- Trustees of Boston Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Heising-Simons Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 112 organizations that share your funders
- The Seminar Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jw Robinson Welfare Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
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 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,332,031 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 22 organizations giving $6,332,031 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.
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 22funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing