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MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC

MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,084,430 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($4,984,430). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$5.7M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$5.1M
Net assets
$-2569948
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Mind Research Institute Inc does

Mission

The mind research institute, inc (mind) is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization which was incorporated in august 2021. The organization's mission is to ensure that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world's most challenging problems through developing and deploying math instructional software and systems. A non-profit organization, mind also conducts basic neuroscientific, mathematics, and education research to improve math education and advance scientific understanding.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Mind research institute, inc. Is a social impact organization specializing in education and neuroscience research, dedicated to ensuring that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world's most challenging problems. At mind research institute, inc., we continue 26 years of engagement in trailblazing applied research in neuroscience, cognitive science, instructional design, implementation science, and program evaluation. Mind research institute, inc. Actively partners with visionary research partners including government, grant programs, university researchers, and social venture philanthropies. The findings and benefits are applicable to the edtech content market, including mind education's programs. We receive contributions from our various donors including foundations, corporations and individuals, and allocate the grants for districts, schools and home-schooling programs. Our education success, data, and product teams are fully dedicated to ensure our st math program's impact.

    $6,221,758 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,221,758.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($174k)2023 Revenue 102 ($4.2M) Expenses 104 ($4.2M) Net assets 820 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 118 ($4.9M) Expenses 176 ($7.0M) Net assets -396 ($-689499)2025 Revenue 136 ($5.7M) Expenses 189 ($7.6M) Net assets -1478 ($-2569948)
2022202320242025
Revenue (136)Expenses (189)Net assets (-1478)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.8M to $2.8M (−26%).

$3.9M
$3.8M
$2.8M
$2.9M
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$174k
’22
$86k
’23
−$2.1M
’24
−$1.9M
’25
3.6
months of
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.

Chief executive

Brett Woudenberg

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Terry Crane

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed1471512
Joined·+2+9+0
No longer listed·913
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100k → $1.2M.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mind Education). These are real filings, and they are not money MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC raised.

From the IRS filings of MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC’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

MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC has grown faster than half of the 210 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−33% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.3M on record.

State$5.3M
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20
21
22
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By state
  • MA$4.7M
  • DE$649k
  • OR$9k
  • FL$347

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 2%Fundraising 7%

Governance

11
board members
82%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

CA
DE

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Mind Education · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC?
MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,084,430 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($4,984,430). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,084,430 in grants to MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,984,430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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