How much did MENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE grant in FY2025?

MENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE reported 33 grants totaling $560,280 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is MENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE based?

MENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE is based in CA.

MENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Private foundation

MENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

To provide therapeutic services to individuals in the surrounding area, and further research and training in the mental health field through support provided to Mental Research Institute Trainings Inc.

$560k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$25k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of MENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

testingintervention

2022

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2023

romanticcouple

2024

teenspositive parentingparenting emotionemotion regulationwell-beingculturallyeffects

2025

understandingmaternalmindrolesynchronydigitalcueing parents

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $40k
$10k–50k25 grants · $521k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$25,000
CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE$25,000
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY$25,000
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDAT$25,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GRE$25,000
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE$25,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY- METROPOLITAN C$25,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$25,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$25,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON$23,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER DEPARTMENT OF$20,121

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$669k · 12 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$669k

$971k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+49%

Still filing today

33%

24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

UO
University of Denver
5× · 2021–2025 · $186k · revenue +23%
BS
Boise State University
2× · 2021–2024 · $100k
AS
Arizona State University
3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue -3%

Funded once

FI
Florida International University
one grant, 2024 · $75k
U
UCLA
one grant, 2024 · $50k
NY
New York Universitygraduated
one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +59%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific University is a Christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.

Education

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

University of Dallas

The university of dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth, and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education. the university seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues,…

Education

Pacific University

A diverse sustainable community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship, and practice, pacific inspires students to think, care, and pursue justice in our world

Education

University of California

To raise and manage private funds to support uci's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service.

Education

Hawaii Pacific University

Hpu is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. our innovative programs prepare our graduates as active members of a global society.

Education

Western Colorado University

The mission of the foundation is to aid, directly or indirectly, western colorado university in fulfilling its educational purposes

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San Francisco State University

To provide private financial support to assist the university in meeting its educational mission.

Education

Texas Lutheran University

As a community of faith and learning, texas lutheran university empowers a diverse student body through an education centered on the liberal arts and professional programs. see form 990, part iii, line 1 for continuation of mission…

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Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education

Aurora University

To provide post-secondary undergraduate and graduate education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Denver and the most unlike its peers is Salve Regina University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/25

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,540

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

22/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,459,259Education$469,071Recreation & Sports$25,000Human Services$20,000Health$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation MENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: University of Wisconsin Madison.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 391709374 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on University of Wisconsin Madison, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mental Research Institute?

Find your warmest path to Mental Research Institute through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mental Research Institute?

More from the funding graph

MENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mental Research Institute?

More from the funding graph