2024-02-13T12:56:04-06:00 2023-03-31 042442519 EDELSTEIN & COMPANY LLP 160 FEDERAL STREET 9TH FLOOR BOSTON MA 02110 990 2022-04-01 474239522 THE MANY BRAINS PROJECT INC MANY 8573956897 12 DUNBARTON ROAD BELMONT MA 02478 LAURA GERMINE PRESIDENT/TREASURER/DIRECTOR 8573956897 2024-02-13 1 LAURA GERMINE 999009999 0 EUGENE BORGONZI P01269879 6172276161 2024-02-13 2 AAL1 IAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z LAURA GERMINE 12 DUNBARTON ROAD BELMONT MA 02478 739932 0 X WWW.MANYBRAINS.NET X 2015 MA TO ACCELERATE RESEARCH ON THE MIND AND BRAIN BY DEVELOPING RESEARCH TOOLS THAT DIRECTLY ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS. 4 4 3 5 0 0 196470 596592 153017 142661 10 374 0 305 349497 739932 0 38000 0 0 234137 410572 0 0 61631 32928 91473 267065 540045 82432 199887 201549 519885 60350 154391 141199 365494 X THE MANY BRAINS PROJECT, INC. IS ORGANIZED AND OPERATED EXCLUSIVELY TO (1) ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELDS OF NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN SOURCE, (2) ADVANCE EDUCATION IN NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY, AND (3) PROMOTE BRAIN HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH. THE MANY BRAINS PROJECT'S CORE MISSION IS TO CURATE AND BROADLY DISSEMINATE HIGH-QUALITY, OPEN SOURCE, WEB-OPTIMIZED NEUROCOGNITIVE ("BRAIN") TESTS FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL USE. BY REDUCING THE COST OF PRECISELY MEASURING COGNITIVE AND BRAIN FUNCTION IN EACH INDIVIDUAL PERSON, THE AVAILABILITY OF SUCH TESTS CAN ACCELERATE THE ACCUMULATION OF KNOWLEDGE BOTH IN THE BASIC SCIENCES AND IN KEY APPLIED RESEARCH AREAS SUCH AS EDUCATION AND MEDICINE. FURTHER, MAKING THESE TECHNOLOGIES OPEN SOURCE ALLOWS OTHERS TO ADAPT AND BUILD ON TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED BY MANY BRAINS, FURTHER FACILITATING THEIR DISSEMINATION, USE, AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 0 0 420635 38000 142661 IN FY23, WE HAVE CONTINUED OUR SUPPORT OF THE FREE RESOURCES WE CREATED IN FY21 IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC ALLOWING RESEARCHERS AND CLINICIANS TO CONDUCT VIRTUAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENTS IN CLINICAL CARE AND RESEARCH. MANY BRAINS HAS CONDUCTED THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES: (1) DEDICATED RESOURCES TO THE MAINTENANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF A FREE, ONLINE DIGITAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY TOOLKIT FOR USE BY CLINICIANS AND RESEARCHERS. THIS HAS HAD STEADY USE AND DEVOTED SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES TO HELPING SUPPORT FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH STUDIES TRANSITIONING TO VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS. THUS FAR, ACCESS HAS BEEN REQUESTED BY OVER 1,400 RESEARCHERS AND CLINICIANS, AND FY23 HAS SEEN OVER 2,700 CLINICAL EVALUATION BATTERIES CREATED THROUGH THIS INFRASTRUCTURE AND OVER 14,500 TEST COMPLETIONS. (2) CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE TMB OPEN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PAGE, IN USE AT OVER 400 SITES INTERNATIONALLY AND OVER 3,384 TEST COMPLETIONS IN FY23 ALONE. WE ALSO APPROVED DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW TOOLKIT TO REPLACE THE TMB OPEN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PAGE THAT WILL INCLUDE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE USER INTERFACES, IMPROVEMENTS TO DOCUMENTATION OF TESTS AND DATA, SOFTWARE UPGRADES, AND A MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD APPROACH TO USER REGISTRATION. THIS IS PLANNED FOR COMPLETION IN FY24. (3) SUPPORTED THE CONTINUED DIGITIZATION OF RESEARCH STUDIES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AS STUDIES IN HUMAN HEALTH INCREASINGLY FOCUS ON TESTING A GLOBAL POPULATION OF PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS. WE HAVE ENGAGED IN SPONSORED RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS TO SUPPORT RESEARCH STUDIES THAT ARE ONGOING AND SEEK TO USE COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASES. NOTABLY, IN FY23, WE SUPPORTED SOME OF THE LARGEST STUDIES IN HEALTH RESEARCH, INCLUDING THE LANDMARK NIH ALL OF US RESEARCH PROGRAM (SEE BELOW). (4) IN FY23 WE CURATED A NEW DATASET AVAILABLE FOR QUALIFIED RESEARCHERS. THIS QUALIFIED RESEARCHER TMB DATASET INCLUDES LARGE DATASETS FROM OUR OPEN-SOURCE COGNITIVE TESTS THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCHERS TO USE TO INVESTIGATE THEIR OWN RESEARCH QUESTIONS IN RELATION TO COGNITION AND THE BRAIN. THIS LARGE, RICH DATASET INCLUDES DATA FROM OVER 72,342 PARTICIPANTS. THIS DATA HAS ALREADY BEEN SHARED WITH RESEARCH TEAMS AT BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, WILLIAM PATTERSON UNIVERSITY, AND THE NETHERLANDS' DONDERS INSTITUTE. (5) IN FY23, WE LAUNCHED THE "I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN" (ISWYM) PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE. THIS PROJECT WAS BASED ON A KEY INSIGHT THAT THE STANDARD WAY OF VISUALIZING DATA ON HUMAN COGNITION CAN BE MISLEADING AND DOESN'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MODERN DATA SCIENCE TOOLS AND METHODS. ISWYM WAS LAUNCHED TO DEVELOP DATA SCIENCE RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS THAT ALLOW BETTER VISUALIZATION OF HUMAN PARTICIPANT DATA PRODUCED BY COGNITIVE TESTS. AN INITIAL PROTOTYPE OF THE ISWYM DASHBOARD WAS DEVELOPED DURING FY23 BASED ON A GENEROUS DONATION. BELOW ARE A FEW KEY PROJECTS WE SUPPORTED THAT ARE HIGH IMPACT WITH MAJOR INVESTMENT FROM THE US NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. IN FY23, FOR EXAMPLE, WE ENGAGED IN SPONSORED RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS TO SUPPORT MAJOR PROJECTS IN HEALTH AND SCIENCE THAT INCLUDED: (1) THE ALL OF US RESEARCH PROGRAM, AN NIH LED PROGRAM THAT IS DEVELOPING THE MOST DIVERSE HEALTH DATABASE IN HISTORY, TO LEARN ABOUT HOW BIOLOGY, LIFESTYLE AND ENVIRONMENT IMPACT HEALTH WITH THE GOAL OF TREATING AND PREVENTING DISEASE. TOGETHER, WE LAUNCHED THE NATIONAL "EXPLORING THE MIND" STUDY WHICH WILL COLLECT KEY DATA FOR UNDERSTANDING COGNITIVE AND MENTAL HEALTH FOR INVESTIGATORS ALL OVER THE WORLD. HTTPS://WWW.NIMH.NIH.GOV/NEWS/SCIENCE-NEWS/2024/USING-GAMES-TO-EXPLORE-THE-MIND(2) THE NIMH EARLY PSYCHOSIS INTERVENTION NETWORK (EPINET), A NATIONAL LEARNING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOR EARLY PSYCHOSIS THAT IS IMPROVING CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH PSYCHOSIS AND CONDUCTING LARGE-SCALE RESEARCH BASED IN CLINICAL PRACTICE(3) THE SIBLING INTERACTION AND BEHAVIOR STUDY (SIBS; BASED AT UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA), A STUDY OF ADOPTIVE AND BIOLOGICAL SIBLINGS AND THEIR PARENTS. 617 FAMILIES PARTICIPATED IN THE INTAKE PHASE OF THIS STUDY. THE PRIMARY PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY ARE TO UNDERSTAND HOW SIBLINGS INTERACT AND INFLUENCE ONE ANOTHER, HOW FAMILY ENVIRONMENT HAS AN IMPACT ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH OF ADOLESCENTS, AND HOW ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ARE SIMILAR TO AND DIFFERENT FROM NON-ADOPTIVE FAMILIES.(4) THE US NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ADOLESCENT TO ADULT HEALTH, WHICH IS FOLLOWING 10,000 PEOPLE ACROSS THEIR LIFESPAN TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW BRAIN AND COGNITIVE CHANGES CAN LEAD TO ALZHEIMER'S AND RELATED DEMENTIAS.THE PUBLIC WEBSITE (TESTMYBRAIN.ORG) THAT PROVIDES EVERYDAY PEOPLE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR MIND / BRAIN CONTINUED TO BE ACTIVE, AND 2022 SAW VISITORS COMPLETE OVER 450,000 COGNITIVE TESTS WHERE THEY RECEIVED THEIR INDIVIDUALIZED RESEARCH DATA BACK AT THE END OF THEIR PARTICIPATION. THE PUBLIC WEBSITE REPRESENTS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE MANY BRAINS PROJECT, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, AND MCLEAN HOSPITAL. 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THE ORGANIZATION DID NOT HAVE ANY EXPENDITURES IN THESE REGIONS TO OBTAIN THESE CONTRIBUTIONS NOR DID IT HAVE ANY EXPENDITURES IN FOREIGN REGIONS TO CONDUCT ITS PROGRAMS. THE ORGANIZATION REPORTED THE CONTRIBUTION PORTION OF EACH PAYMENT FROM THE FOREIGN DONORS ON ITS SCHEDULE B IN ACCORDANCE WITH IRS REGULATIONS. THE ORGANIZATION DID PAY THE SALARY OF ITS PROGRAM DIRECTOR WHO RELOCATED OVERSEAS DURING THE LAST QUARTER OF FY23. 1 WELLESLEY COLLEGE 106 CENTRAL STREET WELLESLEY MA 02481 042103637 501(C)(3) 38000 0 N/A N/A SUPPORT DATA VISUALIZATION METHODS DEVELOPMENT 1 0 PART I, LINE 2: THE GRANTEE IS REQUIRED TO INFORM THE ORGANIZATION OF ITS PROGRESS TOWARDS THE GRANT PURPOSE BY PROVIDING WRITTEN REPORTS EVERY SIX MONTHS DETAILING ACTUAL EXPENDITURES VERSUS BUDGETED EXPENDITURES AND INCLUDING A NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK COMPLETED. THE ORGANIZATION MAY ALSO MAKE SITE VISITS TO THE GRANTEE FROM TIME TO TIME IN ORDER TO MONITOR AND EVALUATE PROGRESS. 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