Funding search · EIN 941585914 · Menlo Park, CA

Mental Research Institute

Name: Mental Research Institute grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

74
grants reported: $1.4M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $25,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

regulation emotion family relationship relationships child couple depression

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Boise State University1 grant · $75,000
Florida International University1 grant · $75,000
University of Denver4 grants · $58,235
University of Denver3 grants · $54,336
UCLA2 grants · $50,000
University of Iowa1 grant · $30,000
Byu1 grant · $30,000
New York University2 grants · $30,000
University of Georgia2 grants · $29,500
University of Notre Dame Du Lac1 grant · $25,050

Giving over time

$138,738

2022

$326,362

2023

$412,565

2024

$560,280

2025

Grant history

All 74 reported grants, largest first.

$75,000
Boise State University · Boise, ID · 2023
Implementation Strategies to Enhance Uptake
$75,000
Florida International University · Miami, FL · 2023
internalization of disability identity
$30,000
Byu · Provo, UT · 2024
emotional proficiencies in teens
$30,000
University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2024
harnessing natural language processing to automate
$25,050
University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2024
piloting common element treatments in Peru
$25,000
Bryn Mawr College · Bryn Mawr, PA · 2025
Cueing parents to reframe negative emotions for th
$25,000
Claremont McKenna College · Claremont, CA · 2025
Shared remembering in romantic relationships
$25,000
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2025
Understanding how interpersonal relationships and
$25,000
New York University- Metropolitan C · New York, NY · 2025
Emotion regulation and psychological well-being
$25,000
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2025
Neural synchrony during emtional interactions as p
$25,000
Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2025
Exploring relational impacts student-designed mind
$25,000
Seattle University · Seattle, WA · 2025
Daily emotion regulation strategies and depression
$25,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2025
Fostering the compassionate mind implementing comp
$25,000
University of Denver · Denver, CO · 2025
Exploring maternal grandmother support in prenatal
$25,000
University of Georgia · Athens, GA · 2025
Coregulatory synchrony and resilience in child-par
$25,000
University of Massachusetts Foundat · Newton Center, MA · 2025
Dyadic processes underlying loneliness and risk of
$25,000
University of North Carolina at Gre · Greensboro, NC · 2025
Centering youth voices humanizng mental health
$25,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2025
Systemic child anxiety intervention on family func
$25,000
Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2024
Asian American parent child stressors
$25,000
Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2024
promote anti-racism
$25,000
Chapman University · Orange, CA · 2024
parental predictability
$25,000
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
parents and teens technology and relationships
$25,000
Palo Alto University · Palo Alto, CA · 2024
online course to improve quality of intimate relat
$25,000
Penn State University · University Park, PA · 2024
investigation of resilience Ukrainian refugees
$25,000
Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024
culturally informed therapy for families
$25,000
UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Does positive parenting improve emotion regulation
$25,000
University of Denver · Denver, CO · 2024
early life caregiving and health
$25,000
University of North Texas · Denton, TX · 2024
daily impacts of posttrauma distress and sleep on
$25,000
Wisconsin University · Madison, WI · 2024
addressing internalized transnegativity in psycoth
$25,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Emotion Regulation and Psychological Well-being
$25,000
Salve Regina University · Newport, RI · 2023
The effects of a brief interconnectedness meditati
$25,000
Southern Methodist University · Dallas, TX · 2023
couples relationship functioning
$25,000
UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
positive parenting emotion regulation
$25,000
University of Georgia · Athens, GA · 2023
Depression and relationship quality among older ad
$25,000
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Improving Human Relationships through Youth Mentor
$25,000
Oakland University · Rochester, MI · 2022
Narcissism and Romantic Relationship Functioning
$25,000
The Florida International Universit · Miami, FL · 2022
Possible selves in midlife women
$25,000
University of Denver · Denver, CO · 2022
Preventing postpartum depression
$25,000
University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2022
Promoting healthy and supportive couple relationsh
$25,000
University of Miami · Miami, FL · 2022
Culturally adapting individually-oriented relation
$23,000
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2025
How couples use humor to navigate gendered inequal
$20,121
University of Denver Department of · Denver, CO · 2025
Parent-infant group therapy for interrupting abuse
$20,000
Texas Christian University · Fort Worth, TX · 2025
Romantic relationship functioning in autistic adul
$20,000
University of Georgia Foundation in · Athens, GA · 2025
Protective role of couple relationship functioning
$20,000
Thriving Families · Denver, CO · 2024
MotherWise in Nicaragua The Impact of Culturally-
$19,336
University of Denver · Denver, CO · 2025
Cueing parents to reframe negative emotions for ch
$19,060
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2022
Establishing the contribution of romantic partners
$18,000
Texas Am University · College Station, TX · 2025
Neural pathways to positive family development pr
$18,000
Texas Christian University · Fort Worth, TX · 2023
existential isolation and well-being
$15,000
University of North Florida · Jacksonville, FL · 2025
Food and screens relate to parent-child interactio
$15,000
Wayne State University · Detroit, MI · 2025
Enhancing adolescent friendships through digital e
$15,000
Arizona State · Tempe, AZ · 2024
Exploring Touch in Virtual Reality in Young Adult
$14,823
University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2025
Evidence based family support for palestine famili
$10,500
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
Behaviors as promotive factor in family relationsh
$10,000
University of Arizona Norton Schoo · Scottsdale, AZ · 2025
Understanding prosocial communication in substance
$10,000
University of Denver · Denver, CO · 2025
Maternal prenatal depression reduction and observe
$8,500
Carnegie Mellon · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
cyclical processes linking couple conflicts
$6,000
Miami University · Oxford, OH · 2024
The Effects of Political Difference on Parent-Chil
$5,000
Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL · 2025
Mental health outcomes for sandwiched caregivers
$5,000
Lehigh University · Bethlehem, PA · 2025
Examination of identity in new motherhood
$5,000
State University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2025
Exploring the impact of a digital storytelling gro
$5,000
Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2025
Perceived partner responsiveness as a scaffold for
$5,000
University of Minnesota · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
Regulation in mentoring the role of mentors emot
$5,000
University of Missouri · Columbia, MO · 2025
Examination of social support in text messages
$5,000
University of Rochester · Rochester, NY · 2025
Seeing clearly or seeing through tinted glasses
$5,000
University of Kentucky · Lexington, KY · 2024
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis on Black
$5,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Organizational Justice and Support on burnout
$5,000
University of Denver · Denver, CO · 2022
Queer Interethnic Relationships Couple Minority S
$4,500
University of Georgia · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Cultural socialization black mothers
$3,235
University of Denver · Denver, CO · 2023
prenatal stress and infant negative emotionality
$127
Misc · Menlo Park, CA · 2023
rounding to match financials
$-650
Adjustment · Menlo Park, CA · 2022
accounting reconciliation
$-1,985
Utep · El Paso, TX · 2024
refund of grant
$-9,672
University of Illinois · Tallahassee, FL · 2022
refunded family therapy grant

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