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24 funding sources found
Foundation
Portuguese foundation funding psychophysiology and parapsychology research. Has funded 946 projects across 31 countries since 1994.
University Center
The University of Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies supports consciousness research and organizes The Science of Consciousness conference series. Provides funding for visiting scholars, research projects, and graduate students working on consciousness across disciplines.
Government (EU)
Premier European funding body for frontier research. ERC Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grants have funded leading consciousness researchers including Stanislas Dehaene, Anil Seth, and Giulio Tononi's European collaborators. Supports ambitious, investigator-driven projects.
Private Foundation
Supports scientific research on the nature of consciousness, with focus on understanding consciousness as fundamental.
Foundation
Supports research at frontiers of physics, biology, and consciousness with a relational worldview approach.
Foundation
Foundation with $560M+ endowment supporting spiritually grounded transformation and the intersection of spirituality and science.
Nonprofit Research Institute
Nonprofit promoting research of highest scientific quality with psilocybin and related substances. Has funded pivotal psychedelic studies at Johns Hopkins, NYU, and Imperial College.
Non-Profit Research Organization
Non-profit research organization dedicated to studying psilocybin and other classic psychedelics. Has funded foundational consciousness research at Johns Hopkins, NYU, and Imperial College London. Named after Arthur Heffter, who first isolated mescaline in 1897.
Non-Profit Institute
Founded in honor of Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack, this institute supports research on consciousness and anomalous experiences. Focuses on expanding the boundaries of scientific inquiry into extraordinary states of consciousness and their transformative effects.
Private Foundation
Foundation supporting basic science research in astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience, and theoretical physics. Funds Kavli Institutes worldwide, several of which conduct consciousness-relevant neuroscience research. Awards the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Public Benefit Corporation
Organization advancing psychedelic-assisted therapy through clinical trials, research, and education. Led FDA approval process for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD.
Nonprofit
Grants supporting contemplative research through the Varela Award and other programs. Funds early-career researchers studying meditation, compassion, and contemplative practices.
Foundation
Funds innovative research on mind, brain, and consciousness with focus on self-regulation in health and disease.
Federal Government
The Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is a massive US federal research program launched in 2013. Funds development of new tools to understand neural circuits, with some grants directly relevant to consciousness research including neural correlates and brain-wide dynamics.
Federal Government
Federal funding agency supporting research on mental health, including consciousness-related programs on perception, cognition, disorders of consciousness, and the BRAIN Initiative.
Private Foundation
Foundation funding integrative health research including mind-body practices, consciousness studies, and the role of awareness in healing. Focus on evidence-based integrative approaches.
Private Foundation
Foundation supporting integrative health and wellness research. Funds consciousness-related research through its focus on mind-body interactions, biofield science, and the role of consciousness in health and healing. Major supporter of integrative medicine programs at UC Irvine.
Private Foundation
Major scientific research funder established by Jim Simons. The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain funds computational and theoretical neuroscience research relevant to understanding consciousness, including neural coding, decision-making, and large-scale brain dynamics.
Foundation
Funds research on consciousness, human flourishing, and big questions about reality. Runs Accelerating Research on Consciousness (ARC) initiative.
Private Foundation
Foundation explicitly dedicated to funding consciousness science, co-founded by Jody Allen (sister of Paul Allen). Supports research on the science of consciousness including work by Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi. Focus on understanding subjective experience through rigorous scientific methods.
Private Foundation
Foundation funding consciousness science research with focus on Integrated Information Theory. Major funder of IIT research at University of Wisconsin-Madison and international collaborators.
Nonprofit Research Organization
Medical research organization conducting clinical trials of psilocybin for major depressive disorder. Pursuing FDA approval through rigorous Phase 2/3 trials.
Charitable Trust
One of the world's largest biomedical research charities, based in the UK. Funds neuroscience of consciousness through Discovery Research and career development grants. Has supported major consciousness research programs at UCL, Cambridge, and Sussex.
Charitable Foundation
Major UK biomedical charity funding neuroscience research including consciousness studies. Supports discovery research, clinical research, and research infrastructure worldwide.