· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $521k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GRE | $25,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY- METROPOLITAN C | $25,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDAT | $25,000 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON | $23,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER DEPARTMENT OF | $20,121 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Mental Research Institute’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER5× · 2021–2025 · $183k · revenue +12%
- ASArizona State University3× · 2021–2024 · $60k
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2025 · $48k
Funded once
- BBYUone grant, 2024 · $30k
- UOUniversity of Iowaone grant, 2024 · $30k
- PSPenn State Universityone grant, 2024 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mental Research Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mental Research Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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