====== MTG Research ======

**MTG Research, Inc.** is an American non-profit organization based in [[united_states:california:Palo Alto]], [[united_states:California]]. It serves as the sister organization of [[Mind the Gap]], a prominent [[political_action_committee|Super PAC]] supporting candidates of the [[Democratic Party]].((//Mind the Gap, Inc.// Idealist. Retrieved February 19, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230219001703/https://www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit/de3c883a913d4b979f868a8a907bce68-mind-the-gap-inc-stanford))

The organization primarily researches “civic engagement tactics” to increased the effectiveness of voter registration and turnout efforts which primarily target "unmarried women, people of color, and millennials."((MTG Research, Inc. (2020). //Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990).// Internal Revenue Service. https://web.archive.org/web/20221125021914/https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/834267873_202012_990EO_2021052818216135.pdf))

===== Organization =====

==== Personnel ====

^ Name  ^ Position  ^ Notes  ^
| [[Graham Gottlieb]]  | President((MTG Research, Inc. (2020). //Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990).// Internal Revenue Service. https://web.archive.org/web/20221125021914/https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/834267873_202012_990EO_2021052818216135.pdf))  | Also serves as treasurer of [[Mind the Gap]]  |
| [[Iris Brest]]  | Director((MTG Research, Inc. (2020). //Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990).// Internal Revenue Service. https://web.archive.org/web/20221125021914/https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/834267873_202012_990EO_2021052818216135.pdf))  | Donated to [[Mind the Gap]] in 2018  |

==== Affiliations ====

The organization's books are handled by [[Katherine Cassell]] at [[MBA Consulting Group]].((MTG Research, Inc. (2020). //Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990).// Internal Revenue Service. https://web.archive.org/web/20221125021914/https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/834267873_202012_990EO_2021052818216135.pdf))

In 2019, MTG Research paid $160,000 to [[Civis Analytics]] and $100,000 to [[Grassroots Solutions]].((MTG Research, Inc. (2019). //Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990).// Internal Revenue Service. https://web.archive.org/web/20221125021901/https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/834267873_201912_990O_2021092719044226.pdf))

===== External links =====

  * [[https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/mtg-research/|InfluenceWatch]]