Financial health should be a right.

Affordability is mobility. We use data and technology to remove the barriers holding back young adults and vulnerable communities.

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10M+

Reached via open data

100K+

High school students in America

The FinMango team holding the FinMango flag under autumn leaves

Partners & collaborators

Financial Health Barometer · Heuristic Stress Model

The crisis isn't coming. It's here.

Our composite Financial Anxiety index reads 136 nationally. Tracking now. It is built from BLS, Census and FRED data with hand-set regional weights, so read state gaps as indicative. How it's built

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Financial Anxiety

136

Food Insecurity

Housing Stress

Affordability

LOW <90

MODERATE 90–120

ELEVATED 120–150

HIGH >150

63%

of Americans can't cover a $500 emergency expense

CNBC ↗

31%

of Americans still believe the American Dream holds true

WSJ / NORC ↗

56%

of young adults report financial stress impacting mental health

Newport Institute ↗

Numbers like these are a cost problem before they are a budgeting problem. So we measure what's driving costs.

How we work

From evidence, to classrooms, to communities.

Prove

Research

We find the barriers blocking economic mobility: housing, healthcare, debt, predatory lending. Our work with Google Health and university partners builds the evidence base decision-makers rely on.

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Equip

Education

We reach students before the student loans and before the first credit card. Our programs run from suburban districts to inner-city schools.

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Inform

Ambassadors

Our global ambassador network carries what we measure to the schools, universities, and agencies that can act on it — and reports back what financial health looks like where they live.

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From the field

What the work looks like.

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The Barrier Breakers 2026 cohort seated on the grand staircase at Kent State University — Barrier Breakers · Kent State University01

Bob Gillingham teaching a Millionaire Mindset class on bull and bear markets, students at laptops, the Cleveland skyline through the windows — Education02

Barrier Breakers students presenting their poster on unemployment in the Kent State University atrium — Student pitches03

Peer-reviewed

Published in Nature. Used worldwide.

From 2020 to 2022 we built and maintained the COVID-19 Open Data project with Google Health, published in Nature Scientific Data. The WHO, World Bank and IMF used it, and it is still free on GitHub.

22K+

Locations tracked

190+

Countries covered

Open

Source on GitHub

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