The mission of the menninger foundation is to support research in the field of mental health.
Promoting medical science and especially the development of psychiatry and its related disciplines; providing opportunities for scientists to apply themselves to research in the problems of medicine, psychology, and related disciplines; providing for the instruction of physicians, nurses, therapists, and educators in a broad and intensive understanding of the human personality; providing diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients, including those whose funds may not be adequate; studying the conditions under which mental illness is fostered and the manner in which the personality of the child may be impaired; studying and developing the application of psychiatry to education, industry, preventative medicine and other social institutions.