Magnus Research Group

Research partners for your social initiative

Empowering communities through evidence-based research, consulting, and solutions tailored to nonprofit and advocacy organizations.

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What we do

Evidence that moves your mission forward

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Research

Transforming Data into Actionable Insights

Magnus Research Group specializes in high-quality, data-driven research that supports nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups, and governmental agencies. With a team of Ph.D.-level criminologists, statisticians, and social scientists, we conduct comprehensive needs assessments, impact evaluations, and efficacy studies to ensure your projects are built on robust evidence.

Research areas

  • Needs Assessments
  • Program Evaluations
  • Impact Studies
  • Quantitative and Geospatial Analysis
  • Complex Data Analysis and Visualization

Key features

  • Tailored research designs to meet the specific needs of your organization
  • Data-driven recommendations to inform decision-making and enhance project outcomes
  • Expertise in handling projects of any scale and complexity
Complex data, made clear

From raw data to decisions you can act on

Large, messy, multi-source datasets are where good evidence is won or lost. We take your data through four connected stages, so results are rigorous and easy for funders, partners, and communities to understand.

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    Gather

    Surveys, interviews, focus groups, and existing administrative and public data brought together into one reliable foundation.

  2. 02

    Analyze

    Rigorous quantitative, statistical, and geospatial analysis that separates real patterns from noise.

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    Visualize

    Maps, charts, and clear graphics that make hotspots, trends, and relationships visible at a glance.

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    Present

    Reports and briefings shaped for your audience, whether that is funders, boards, taskforces, or the community.

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Consulting

Strengthening Your Projects with Expert Guidance

Our consulting services focus on providing nonprofits and advocacy organizations with the tools and strategies to successfully secure and implement foundation and government grants. We guide organizations through the entire process, from proposal development to the implementation of funded initiatives, ensuring that your projects are underpinned by sound data and rigorous evaluations.

Consulting services include

  • Grant Proposal Development
  • Program Design and Implementation
  • Data Collection and Analysis Planning
  • Performance Metrics and Reporting
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Solutions

Improving Your Impact with Evidence-Based Solutions

Let our team of experts help you strengthen your programs, projects, and funding requests. We provide sound evaluation and assessment research that showcases your programming successes, ensuring your initiatives stand out to funders and stakeholders. Whether you’re working on a small-scale program or a multi-year project, our solutions will empower you to present clear, actionable evidence of success.

Our solutions include

  • Enhancing Program Proposals
  • Strengthening Project Funding Requests
  • Evaluations Tailored to Your Target Audience
  • Geospatial and Quantitative Assessments
Project spotlight

Research partner to Project Safe Neighborhoods across Texas

Since 2012, select researchers of our team have been the independent research partner for Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) taskforces across Texas, ensuring that every intervention is based on solid data and evidence. In 2019, Magnus Research Group was founded and has been the research partner for these taskforces ever since.

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About us

A trusted partner in the social initiative sector

Magnus Research Group (MRG) was founded in 2019 as a nonprofit organization committed to helping other nonprofit and advocacy organizations secure and implement grant and foundation-funded projects.

We are a team of experienced Ph.D.-level criminologists, social scientists, and data experts with a shared commitment to improving community well-being.

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Our mission

Through social science-based research, discovery, and education, Magnus Research Group seeks to support community initiatives, nonprofit organizations, learning institutions, and governmental agencies in their efforts to improve quality of life for the most vulnerable members and communities in society.

Expert witness services

Research that holds up under cross-examination

Courts ask questions our research already answers: what was foreseeable, what a reasonable owner or agency should have known, and whether security measures met professional standards. Through Bachmann Consulting, LLC, the same Ph.D.-level criminologists, statisticians, and geospatial analysts behind our nonprofit work make that expertise available to attorneys, insurers, and government agencies as expert witnesses.

Select researchers of our team have served as the independent research partner to Project Safe Neighborhoods taskforces across Texas since 2012, built evaluation systems for funders and agencies, and analyzed crime patterns at the neighborhood level. That same discipline—transparent method, reproducible analysis, and plain-language reporting—is what makes evidence survive cross-examination.

What we are retained to examine

  • Crime foreseeability & premises security: prior-incident analysis, location context, and whether security measures were adequate, including CPTED assessments.
  • Crime mapping & geospatial analysis: hotspot, spatio-temporal, and risk-terrain analysis, with maps and charts prepared for reports and exhibits.
  • Offender risk & supervision practice: recidivism risk, probation and parole standards, and pretrial, bail, and sentencing factors.
  • Data-backed reports & testimony: expert reports, deposition testimony, and trial testimony grounded in peer-reviewed social science.
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Expert witness engagements are contracted with Bachmann Consulting, LLC. Magnus Research Group’s nonprofit research and evaluation work remains independent of any litigation engagement.

  • Law firms and litigation teams
  • Insurers and risk managers
  • Government agencies
  • Retained through Bachmann Consulting, LLC

Projects & partners

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Fund independent research

Donations underwrite the evaluations and tools that small Texas nonprofits cannot pay for, and they keep our findings independent of whoever funds them.

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Let’s build the evidence behind your work

Whether you’re interested in our research services, consulting support, or a potential collaboration, our team is here to help.

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