Mbi Research Institute

Analysis

Mbi Research Institute is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Mbi Research Institute reported income of $772k and spending of $744k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $484k to $772k (+59%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Mbi Research Institute sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 50th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Aeon America Inc ($771k), Kirk P Dyer Foundation ($772k) and United Way of Southwest Wyoming ($771k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $462k. At year end it held assets of $442k against liabilities of $41k, net assets of $402k.